Chris May

God damn it. I just typed forever on this damn post, but I had timed out and lost everything I had typed. I'm so pissed I could fill this with 4 letter words, but .... forget it.

I'll sum this up as fast as I can, my last post (that was lost) was very detailed, this one won't be.

To move a project from a local computer to a server and put it under VSS control:

1. Copy the entire solution to a folder structure on the server
2. Create a new virtual website on the server and point it to the folder with the web project (should be below the solution file in the folder structure)
3. If the solution file doesn't work (probably won't) create a new blank solution file in a folder above your web root
4. Add your web projects to this solution. When it asks where to add them from, you should probably try http://develoment.MyDomain.com (if your new virtual webserver is using that domain... otherwise you can create a fake domain name in your hosts file and use that. The important thing is that whatever you type in there has to resolve to the folder where your web app project file is located. I once had a bunch of trouble and did something weird where I shared the website root as a network share and then entered \\ServerName\ShareName for this parameter and it worked... dunno.
5. Go to file->Source Control->Add Solution To Source Control
6. On the client machiens to go File->Source Control->Open Project From Source Control
7. Select the VSS project (folder) where your .sln file is located
8. When it asks for the working copy address, you have to supply it with http://SomethingHere that will resolve to the folder that will hold the website's root. Note: VSS hasn't created this folder yet!!!
9. Because the client machines can probably only run 1 website, change the default website to point to the folder that is going to be populated with the website in VSS (remember you will have to manually create the folder that you are going to be point too. Use the same naming/structure as you have setup in VSS and on the server.)
10. If you want, you can create a fake name in your hosts file for this as well, and then use http://ThisVSSProcessSucks if you mapped that name to 127.0.0.1.

Thats it!!!!

Now I have to figure out how I can setup this page so that the forms authentication won't cause me to lose my post again....