HOWTO: Deploy Web Applications with Visual InterDev 6.0

ID: Q219050

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SUMMARY

If you are building a Web application using Visual InterDev, and your Visual InterDev project is not on your production Web server, you can use deployment to periodically deploy and redeploy your application into production.


MORE INFORMATION

The Visual Interdev 6.0 Deployment feature can use either the FrontPage Server Extensions (FPSE) or the Posting Acceptor to deploy content. If both the FPSE and the Posting Acceptor are installed on the production server, the deployment explorer will default to using the FPSE.

The FPSE can be installed by running Setup.exe from either of the following locations:

The Posting Acceptor can be installed by running Pasetup.exe from either of the following locations: Open the existing Web project that you would like to deploy with Visual InterDev 6.0. Once the project is open you will need to set the deployment target:
  1. From the Projects menu select New Deployment Target.


  2. Specify the fully qualified URL to your target server. An example of a valid URL would be "http://<destination web server name>/<destination application name>".


  3. The Deployment Explorer window will appear in the Visual InterDev Development Environment.


  4. From the Deployment Explorer window click the Deploy icon.


  5. Your application should deploy sucessfully.



REFERENCES

Please see the following Knowledge Base articles for more information regarding the Visual InterDev Deployment feature:

Q220843 PRB: Unable to Contact the Requested Network Server. The Target Does Not Exist.

Q220841 PRB: Failed to Deploy a File XX.ASP : You Do Not Have Write Access to Destination URL

Q220839 PRB: Failed to Deploy File (XX.ASP): The FrontPage Server Extensions Returned the Following Error:(Error 0x90005)

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Keywords          : kbExtension kbFrontPage kbServer kbVisID600 kbIIS kbFrontPageX 
Version           : WINDOWS:6.0; winnt:4.0
Platform          : WINDOWS winnt 
Issue type        : kbhowto

Last Reviewed: July 9, 1999