Ignoring files when publishing web site

[Ben Fidge]

Is there any way of configuring VS2005's Publish Web Site feature to ignore
certain files? During day to day testing of our web-site, log files are
created that I don't want to deploy to the production server. However,
Publish Web Site copies these over and they have to be manually removed
before deployment. This rules out using FTP to publish because it would
overwrite the auto-generated log files on the live server.

Ideally, I'd to specify a list of file-masks that Publish Web-Site will not
copy to the PrecompiledWeb folder

Ben

 

[Teemu Keiski]

Hi,

manually excluding from project is probably one way to prevent that.

But you can have great control over the deployment process if you start to
use Web Deployment Projects. You can control with it what files, what file
types, folders etc are excluded from the deployment process plus do a lot
more other stuff, not available with default publishing in VS2005.

http://msdn.microsoft.com/asp.net/reference/infrastructure/wdp/default.aspx

 

[Ben Fidge]

Funnily enough, I was just setting this up when I read your response. Can I
ask some questions as documentation seems quite thin at the moment.

1..How do I specify to remove *.resx, *.log etc from the output folder
2..I'm having trouble replacing section of my web.config file. <appSettings>
go over fine, but I'm getting errors with non-standard config sections. We
use payment processing agent called PROTX and their API adds a section
called <protx.com> to the web.config file. In the WDP property pages dialog,
I've set "protx.com=.\configs\liveprotx.config" and get the following error
"error WDP00002: missing section protx.com". The case is correct and
everything spelt correctly, and the path to the file is ok as
"appSettings=.\configs\appsettings.config" works fine. Is this because it's
a custom section?

Ben

 

[Teemu Keiski]

1. Add this to the project file:

<ItemGroup>
<ExcludeFromBuild Include="$(SourceWebPhysicalPath)\**\*.log" />


</ItemGroup>

That would for example remove all *.log files from the WDP output.

2. About custom section, how have you the settings related to it, such as
enforcing matching section replacements setting? (Have you checked
instructions in
http://download.microsoft.com/downl...5b041/Using web_deployment_projects_final.doc )

 

[Ben Fidge]

Hi Teemu,

Enforce mathcing section replacements is switched off. There doesn't appear
to be information in the document concerning replacing custom sections.

Ben

 

[Teemu Keiski]

Interesting,

I haven't tried that part of WDP well enough so I cannot answer your
question. However, I ran a search on ASP.NEt Forums and found a few related
posts.
http://forums.asp.net/1173181/ShowPost.aspx

You could ask this on VS2005 forum
http://forums.asp.net/138/ShowForum.aspx

 

[Ben Fidge]

Thanks for your help. As Soon as I find out i'll post a message on this
forum.

Ben