To test the tools which we develop on the team, at times I need to build a website and publish it. I use a simple way of publishing websites from the command line that saves me a LOT of time so thought I would share it.
Launch notepad and copy paste the code below and save it as Publish.cmd file. Run visual studio command prompt (as administrator) and run the publish.cmd.
1: @ECHO OFF
2: set WEB_ROOT=C:\inetpub\wwwroot\mytestsite
3: set PROJECT_ROOT=D:\Source\website
4:
5: echo Publishing site %PROJECT_ROOT% to %WEB_ROOT%
6:
7: del /S /Q %WEB_ROOT%\*.* || goto Error
8: rmdir /S /Q %WEB_ROOT%\ || goto Error
9: aspnet_compiler -p "%PROJECT_ROOT%" /v /commercesite /d "%WEB_ROOT%" || goto Error
10:
11: goto Success
12: :Error
13: echo Site was not published
14:
15: goto End
16:
17: :Success
18: echo Site published successfully
19:
20: :End
If there aren’t any errors the site will be published successfully as shown below
C:\Windows\system32>D:\Source\website\publish.cmd
Publishing site D:\Source\website to c:\inetpub\wwwroot\mytestsite Utility to precompile an ASP.NET application
Copyright (C) Microsoft Corporation. All rights reserved.
Site published successfully
C:\Windows\system32>
Modify the above script parameters appropriately to publish your site successfully!