Installing my ASP application

[REaton]

Hi

I am looking for advice for installing my ASP application on a server. I know I could do it manually but the idea is that clients can do the install themselves.

Bearing in mind it will have to copy all the asp, html, image files etc as well as register the COM objects (in dll's) on the server.

Any ideas?

Thanks

Richard

 

[vasah20]

Ironically I'm working on the same kind of problem

I'll tell you what we are doing. (using SQL Server 7)

We are building a dll to handle the page processing (subsitition of values, etc. within the templates) then saving those finished templates into a folder created by the application. Once all the files are done processing, another method is called from the DLL to upload those files unto the server.

I am going to assume that you have complete control of your client's web server, so the only way that I've found to run MS-Dos from an ASP page is by using this free component from Server Objects, ASPExec.

http://www.serverobjects.com/products.htm#free

What I would do with the component, is open up an instance of cmd.exe, then create a batch file to handle the necessary registration of your components.

One question though - if you are in total control of your servers, all you need to do is regsvr32 all your components once, then every ASP page gets access to them.

hope this helps
leo

 

[REaton]

Thanks Leo but having re-read my message, I probably didn't make it that clear what I was trying to achieve.

I have until now installed the COM objects using regsvr32 and just copied the files across in windows explorer when I've needed to try out installs on other web server machines in the office.

What I'm looking for is a way of packaging all the asp,html,image files,dll's etc up and just having an install CD for a webserver that would do everything for me

Any ideas?

The only thing I've found is MS Visual Studio Installer but I need to look into this further.

Cheers

Richard

P.S. It also has to handle versions for upgrades etc!

 

[vasah20]

Oh i see...
sorry - we outsourced our install CD. :-(

good luck though...
leo