Publishing Classic ASP Site For The First Time

[dmarion]

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 (ftp://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 (ftp://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 (ftp://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?

[dmarion]

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.

[JerSchneid]

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 (http://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.