Publishing Classic ASP Site For The First Time

Hi all,

I'm attempting to publisha classic ASP site onto a DiscountASPweb server for the first time. The site currently exists at another ISP; therefore, I have not transferred DNS over to DiscountASP yet.

I am using Visual Studio 6.0, SP3. Under normal circumstances, I would use the "Copy Web Application" option within VS to copy all folders, sub-folders, and files. BTW, I have installed FP Server Extensions on this account, which is required. If DNS were already transferred over, I would use "www.domainname.com" as the target. However, I think I need to use ftp.domainname.web999.discountasp.net until the time I am ready to transfer DNS.

So...in the Copy Web Application dialog box of VS, I enter ftp.domainname.web999.discountasp.net. I get challenged, which is a good thing. But when I enter my credentials, the UserID/Password dialog box refreshes, which indicates to me IIS didn't like the UserName and Password I entered. Oddly, I can connect to ftp.domainname.web999.discountasp.net via simple FTP using the same UserID/Password combo. However, I think I need a VS 6.0 solution in order to properly use FrontPage from this migration and forward.

Hope all this makes sense. Anybody have any ideas?

 

Thanks very much for the additional information and your utility! Since my original post, tech. support sent me a static I/P address (I needed that to install SSL). So I tried the I/P address and it worked. But I appreciate your reply.

 

I've found it's best to avoid Visual Studio's deployment options all together. Instead I wrote a tool (which has received over 50,000 downloads)

www.herculessolutions.com/AspDotNetProjectFtp.aspx

It does exactly what you wants: Publishes a directory, subdirectories, files, etc to any FTP site. It even remembers your project info, FTP account info and which files have been updated since your last download.