Question

i have a production server that does not have ftp access. Possible way to deploy files is connecting with remote desktop client and send files.

As you know this approach is highly hard and time inefficient.

Could you please provide me best practices to deploy in a more fast way?

Thanks

Answer 1

I deploy using remote desktop all the time. You may get some tips from my process:

• Deploy to a local folder
• Zip the contents of the folder
• Copy the zip file
• Connect to the server
• Paste the zip file on the desktop
• Unack the zip file to a temporary folder inside the web site (so that the files get the right file permissions)
• Move the current files to a backup folder (for easy rollback)
• Move the files from the temporary folder to their correct position

(Note: You have to enable file sharing in remote desktop to be able to copy and paste.)