If you are deploying an ASP.NET web application, Deployment Manager configures IIS for you.

Changing the home directory

If your NuGet package contains a web.config file, Deployment Manager will assume it is a website, and will attempt to configure IIS for you.

For example, before deployment, your IIS site might have pointed to:

C:\Apps\Production\Acme.WebStore\1.0.0

After extracting and deploying version 2.0 of the package, the site's Home Directory will point to:

C:\Apps\Production\Acme.WebStore\2.0.0

This change will cause IIS to start serving requests from the new location. If there is a problem, you can manually revert the IIS website to point to the old package, or re-deploy the old release with Deployment Manager.

Variables

If you want Deployment Manager to create a new IIS website, you need to specify the following variables:

• RedGateWebSiteName
  The IIS site name or virtual directory to use when creating the IIS website.
• RedGateCreateWebSiteOnPort
  The port number to use when creating the IIS website.

You also need to specify the following to create a new application pool:

• RedGateCreateWebSiteApplicationPool
  The name of the application pool to create.
• RedGateCreateWebSiteDotNetVersion
  The .NET Framework version to use for the application pool.
• RedGateCreateWebSiteIdentityType
  The identity type to use for the application pool.

For example, if we want to create a new IIS website named WidgetShop, we specify the following: