Script runner for deploying applications to production with a single click.
Deploy.NET is typically installed on your production or test server and runs a deployment script with a single click. A typical deployment task may look like this:
- Stop a local Windows service and IIS application pool
- Create a ZIP file of the currently installed Windows service and web application and copy it into a backup folder
- Download ZIP files containing your lates build from your FTP server
- Unzip the downloaded files and overwrite the installed Windows service and web application
- Start the Windows service and IIS application pool
After installing Deploy.NET, all script files with the extension .deploy are automatically associated with Deploy.NET and can be run by doubleclicking them. So let's create your first deploy script!
Create a new file using Notepad or any other text editor, copy the following XML text into it, and save it under the name demo.deploy.
<?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8" ?>
<deployNET version="1.0" requiresAdmin="false">
<ftp server="ftp.server.com" user="anonymous" password="[email protected]">
<download src="build.zip" dst="c:\temp\build.zip" />
</ftp>
<unzip src="c:\temp\build.zip" dst="c:\inetpub\wwwroot\MyApp" />
</deployNET>Now you should be able to doubleclick your demo.deploy file to automatically start Deploy.NET. Don't worry, the script will not run before you click the "Start" button!
If you run the script, it will download a file called build.zip from an FTP server into the temp directory. Then the ZIP file will be extracted to c:\inetpub\wwwroot\MyApp.
<alert msg="This is a demo of all commands." title="Important message" /> <!-- copy a file or folder (including all files and subfolders), 'dst' may include placeholders -->
<copy src="d:\file1.txt" dst="d:\file2.txt" />
<copy src="d:\file1.txt" dst="d:\file-{DATE:yyyy-MM-dd}.txt" />
<copy src="d:\folder1" dst="d:\folder2" />Copy a file or folder (including all files and subfolders). 'dst' may contain a placeholder {DATE} for the current date and time.
<delay ms="1000" />Delay the execution of the script by some milliseconds.
<delete file="d:\file1.txt" />
<delete folder="d:\folder1" recursive="true" />Delete a file or folder. Note that deleting a non-empty folder will fail unless recursive="true" is specified.
<error>Message</error>Display an error message and abort the script.
<ftp server="ftp.server.com" user="anonymous" password="[email protected]">
<upload src="d:\file1.txt" dst="file1.txt" />
<download src="file2.txt" dst="d:\file2.txt" />
</ftp>Upload or download files to/from an FTP server.
<http url="https://raw.githubusercontent.com/b43r/deploynet/master/deploynet1.png" dst="d:\image.png" />Download a file from the internet by http(s) protocol and save it locally. Optionally basic authentication can be used if userand password attributes are specified.
<ifexists file="d:\file1.txt">
<alert msg="File exists!" />
</ifexists>
<ifexits folder="d:\folder1">
<alert msg="Folder exists!" />
</ifexits>Executes other commands only if a file or folder exists. Any number of commands can be nested in the <ifexists></ifexists> tag.
<ifnotexists file="d:\file2.txt"></ifnotexists>
<ifnotexists folder="d:\folder2"></ifnotexists>Executes other commands only if a file or folder NOT exists.
<iisapppool name="Test" action="stop"/>
<iisapppool name="Test" action="start"/>
<iisapppool name="Test" action="start"/>Start, stop or recylce an IIS application pool.
<move src="d:\file1.txt" dst="d:\folder2\subfolder\file1.txt" />
<move src="d:\folder1" dst="d:\folder2\subfolder\folder1" />Move a file or folder, 'dst' may contain a placeholder {DATE} for the current date and time.
<rename src="d:\file1.txt" dst="file3.txt" />
<rename src="d:\folder1" dst="folder3" />Rename a file or folder, 'dst' may contain a placeholder {DATE} for the current date and time.
<replacetext src="string BuildDate = ".*"" dst="BuildDate: {DATE}" file="d:\version.cs" />Replace text in a file, 'dst' may contain a placeholder {DATE} for the current date and time.
<run file="notepad.exe" arguments="license.txt" />Run an external program.
<service name="MyServiceName" action="start" />
<service name="MyServiceName" action="stop" />Start or stop a Windows service.
<unzip src="d:\MyApp.zip" dst="d:\MyApp" check="true" />Unzip an archive file into a directory. If the extension of the archive is 7z, 7zip will be used. If "check" is set to "true", the archive integrity will be checked prior to extracting (7zip only).
<zip src="d:\temp\build_output" dst="d:\MyApp.zip" fileMask="-.pdb;-.xml" recursive="true" /> Zip files in a directory into an archive. 'dst' may contain a placeholder {DATE} for the current date and time. "fileMask" may contain multiple regular expressions (separated by ;) which are checked against the name of the source files. If an expression starts with a "-", files matching the regex are excluded from the archive. If "recursive" is set to "true", also files in subdirectories are included into the archive. If the extension of the archive is 7z, 7zip will be used.