I am supposed to recreate a sitecore site locally on my machine to match the client site. The client sent me three directories: Sitecore Foundation, Sitecore feature, and the website project. Each directory has it's own VS solution file and all three of them are MVC projects. I am confused as to how to upload those to my Sitecore instance that I installed. The idea is to get it working on my local machine so I can edit the site and publish. Is there anything else that I need to ask the client to send me in order to set it up locally? Any help would be appreciated!!
In the easiest scenario you need code of the application and Sitecore items.
From what you wrote, you've got the code.
Now you need to install clean Sitecore instance (using exactly the same version as is used on the client site), compile your code and push the code to the Website folder of your Sitecore installation (e.g. using publish to folder option fro Visual Studio).
You also need Sitecore items. There are multiple options to install them in your local environment, e.g.:
get the backup of Sitecore databases from your client and restore them in your local environment
get Sitecore content packages with all the necessary items and install them in your local databases overriding items from clean Sitecore install
get serialized items (either serialized with default Sitecore serialization mechanism, Unicorn or TDS) and restore them in your local environment.
Those are all the steps required in the simple scenario. There may be other steps needed if solution is more complicated but no one will be able to tell you what you need if they don't know the project.
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I am new to Yii and I wonder if it is at all possible to install Yii locally and build an application with it , then without installing Yii to your server or webhosting , upload the files and get the application into use ?
You shouldn't have to install anything. Just make sure the entire directory (including the framework obviously) is uploaded to whatever web hosting you are using. Having PHP installed on the server should be the only requirement so make sure it's there.
The scenario:
I'm very new to ASP.Net MVC programming and running into a wall constantly trying to make use of common files (.js, .css) across multiple projects.
The idea is to have these generic files in 1 location which provides for easy future updates and avoids the "copy and paste" dilemma across all the projects. I've set this folder up in IIS7 as a virtual directory in the default website with an alias "CommonFiles".
The problem:
With MVC-4 I'm trying to add the js files to a script bundle but upon running the application it's not picking the files up at all. (checked in the page source and also added a js function as a test)
Code snippet in BundleConfig.cs:
bundles.Add(new ScriptBundle("~/bundles/test").Include("~/CommonFiles/test.js"));
Rendering in _Layout.cshtml:
#Scripts.Render("~/bundles/test")
I've read quite a few posts (
Script Bundling in WebForms with Virtual Directories (asp webforms though), How to add reference to System.Web.Optimization for MVC-3-converted-to-4 app, ScriptBundle not rendering scripts that are in a VirtualDirectory) but i'm afraid my lack of knowledge on MVC is limiting my path forward and really hoping to get some insight into how MVC handles IIS virtual directories and if it's even an easy possibility given the last post i've read above.
Can this be done in MVC-4 and if not what is a second best alternative in reusing common code across projects?
After reading a post by kev (Using ServerManager to create Application within Application) it put me on the right path and the issue I had is actually embarrassing.
For the sake of other devs landing on this post with a similar issue in visual studio, this is what fixed my issue:
Problem:
I make use of a separate project which contains files that are used across multiple other projects. I created a virtual folder in IIS7 referencing these files. This means if a change is needed to the common files, it's updated once and all the other projects will automatically "see" the change.
My other individual projects make use of script bundling to include files relevant only to the said project, but also to reference the common files in the virtual folder as defined in IIS.
My MVC-4 web application wasn't picking up the common files given the syntax above, in neither debug or release..
Solution:
When developing in VS2012, under the project's properties, there's a setting under the web tab where you can specify whether you want to use local IIS web server or IIS Express to test your application. IIS Express adds a random port to the site in order to test, and to allow multiple instances of sites to run (on different ports). This seems to throw the virtual directory include off in the bundling.
Choosing to use the local IIS server is closer to what the "live" environment would be in my opinion. Just un-tick the "Use IIS Express" setting.
As a side note and for more info on what the difference between the usage of IIS and IIS express is and whether it's suitable for your environment (as it was for mine) see this link:
http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/58wxa9w5.aspx
Hope this helps someone in future and saves them the amount of time I wasted on this!
I want to deploy on IIS my web site but I do not want to take whole project. I just need to take .dll file. Is their any way to do so.
I do not want to use visual studio only .dll file from the project to deploy.
The basic steps for deploying to IIS on windows server are as follows:
log onto the machine that is or will be hosting your application.
Use IIS Manager to create a new website for your application.
Create a new application in that site. I believe this also will automatically create an application pool with the same name for you and use it by default.
Specify the virtual directory for your application. This is going to tell IIS where to look for your mvc application. For this case lets assume it is C:\myApp
On your own machine Build the application however you build it with the correct solution configuration (i.e. Release mode). Let say the result of your build is located at C:\MyProject\bin
Copy C:\MyProject\bin from your machine onto your hosting machine at C:\myApp
You should be able to search these steps and find a step by step guide of how to accomplish them. Here is a link to some info on what sites, applications and app pools are to help you better understand.
http://www.iis.net/learn/get-started/planning-your-iis-architecture/understanding-sites-applications-and-virtual-directories-on-iis
Based on your sites requirements there will be some additional steps to set up security and alter bindings if you need to change them.
You don't need to deploy your entire website if you only make a change in a single assembly. You could copy the .DLL assembly directly to the bin folder of your website. This will trigger the Application Pool to be recycled in IIS and the changes will be taken into effect on the next request.
I'm trying to create a EventReceiver project in Sharepoint 2010 Templates, but VS always ask me to pass a valid local URL of a Sharepoint Site. Without a Sharepoint Site the project is not created. Why?
Why if I want to create the project and use it direct in production without local tests?
This is a requirement of VS development for share point -- you need a local install of the sharepoint foundation server. It is a free download.
But if you question is more along the lines of "Why make this a requirement", I don't know ;). You can still have a sandbox server to deploy to.
I'll be using RTC in the near future here at work. My question is: where does it put the files the team members will be working on? I understand that each programmer will work on the projects files and they will push the changes to the main repository. We have a local web server where we test our work (php). So, do we have to configure RTC to publish the files to the web server? or the RTC server must be installed in the webserver so it can save the files?
We use Rational Team Concert almost exactly as you describe, and it works brilliantly. My small team of web developers collaborates on website source code and delivers it to two different streams depending on its readiness: production-stream and staging-stream. Then we have defined two builds that check out the source code, move some things around, and push the files to the web servers via SCP. So, with a few clicks we kick off a staging build, watch it finish in about two minutes and everyone can see the changes on the staging server. When the code is ready for prime-time, the change sets are delivered to production-stream and the production build is kicked off, which is configured to copy the files to the production web server.
But even before a staging or production build is run, any of us can simply configure a local web server in RTC using the Eclipse PDE and Web Tools add-ons and see the site running in localhost as we develop.
All our work is done within Rational Team Concert, from planning, to bug tracking, to source control, to builds. It's very well-suited for website management.
Your understanding is correct - you work on files locally, and they get uploaded on to the server when you checkin. Bear in mind that checkin in RTC terms really means back-up your files to the server, it is a Deliver command that shares the files with others (it is worth a quick look at the articles on jazz.net that explains how SCM works).
One way to pubish to your php server is to make that part of a build, or a build in its own right (which RTC also handles - in conjunction with your favourite build tool). The build would copy the files to the php server. The advantage of doing this as a build is you will know exactly what versions of your files are being copied, and you will be able to reproduce this copy at any point in the future.
You do not need to install the RTC server on the php server.
You can also try posting on the forums on http://jazz.net/ if you have questions on RTC.
Hope that helps.
Another alternative would be to use the command line interface to accept all changes into a workspace and run that with a cron job.
To handle discarded change sets, you'd probably want to use something like:
scm workspace replace-components <workspace-name> stream <uuid-of-stream> --all
after you had initially loaded the workspace on your web server.