Web Deployment Tool (MS Deploy)

Re: Why I have to run the msdeploy twice to make rename rule working

yaminij — Wed, 19 Nov 2008 00:41:33 GMT

From your output, it does look like the MYQA rule did kick in on the first sync. As per the MYQA rule, all the qa.config files should become web.config files. If you look at c:\2abc after your first sync, you should only find web.config files, which is what you expect. But again, since you already have a web.config file under the same path, it might get overwritten. You can do a -verbose to see how its getting overwritten.

Re: Why I have to run the msdeploy twice to make rename rule working

renewbeie — Wed, 19 Nov 2008 00:12:13 GMT

Here is the console display for the first run

C:\Program Files\IIS\Microsoft Web Deploy>MSDeploy.exe -verb:sync -source:conten
tPath=C:\1abc -dest:contentPath=C:\2abc -enablerule:MYQA
Action: Adding child dirPath (C:\2abc\admin)
Action: Adding child filePath (C:\2abc\admin\dev.config)
Action: Adding child filePath (C:\2abc\admin\prod.config)
Action: Adding child filePath (C:\2abc\admin\web.config)
Action: Adding child filePath (C:\2abc\admin\test.aspx)
Action: Adding child filePath (C:\2abc\admin\test.htm)
Action: Adding child filePath (C:\2abc\admin\web.config)
Action: Adding child dirPath (C:\2abc\user)
Action: Adding child filePath (C:\2abc\user\dev.config)
Action: Adding child filePath (C:\2abc\user\prod.config)
Action: Adding child filePath (C:\2abc\user\web.config)
Action: Adding child filePath (C:\2abc\user\test.aspx)
Action: Adding child filePath (C:\2abc\user\test.htm)
Action: Adding child filePath (C:\2abc\user\web.config)
Action: Adding child filePath (C:\2abc\dev.config)
Action: Adding child filePath (C:\2abc\prod.config)
Action: Adding child filePath (C:\2abc\web.config)
Action: Adding child filePath (C:\2abc\test.aspx)
Action: Adding child filePath (C:\2abc\test.htm)
Action: Adding child filePath (C:\2abc\web.config)
Change count: 20

Here is the display from second run

C:\Program Files\IIS\Microsoft Web Deploy>MSDeploy.exe -verb:sync -source:conten
tPath=C:\1abc -dest:contentPath=C:\2abc -enablerule:MYQA
Action: Adding child filePath (C:\2abc\admin\web.config)
Action: Adding child filePath (C:\2abc\user\web.config)
Action: Adding child filePath (C:\2abc\web.config)
Change count: 3

THANKS again for looking into this issue

Re: Why I have to run the msdeploy twice to make rename rule working

renewbeie — Tue, 18 Nov 2008 23:20:33 GMT

Thank you for your response.

My directory structure is indeed super simple test site, just a root with two sub folder.

Root: c:\1abc (root folder with 6 files and 2 sub -folders)

qa.config
prod.config
dev.config
web.config
test.htm
test.aspx

c:\1abc\admin (a sub folder with 6 files )

qa.config
prod.config
dev.config
web.config

test.htm
test.aspx

c:\1abc\user (another sub folder with 6 files )

qa.config
prod.config
dev.config
web.config

test.htm
test.aspx

Re: Why I have to run the msdeploy twice to make rename rule working

yaminij — Tue, 18 Nov 2008 19:13:41 GMT

It seems to work well for me. Is your directory structure very simple? If yes, can you share it out with us?

Why I have to run the msdeploy twice to make rename rule working

renewbeie — Tue, 18 Nov 2008 08:53:32 GMT

I want to rename different config files into web.config,

Here is my rule of renaming qa.config into web.config

Here is my command

MSDeploy.exe -verb:sync -source:contentPath=C:\1abc -dest:contentPath=C:\2abc -enablerule:MYQA

I am puzzuled by the result.

When I run the command for the first time, all files are copied, but MYQA rule doesn't trigger

If I run the command again, then rules kicks in.

Is there anything I did wrong?

Thanks