We're working on a way of deploying Umbraco by basically just copying all of the Umbraco install into the right place, but we don't want to copy over the folders that contain user content (like images, and Media). Does anyone know which folders can have user content in them (again like images and Media) and which ones don't? The ones that don't we can copy over with our new content without problem, but we don't want to overwrite user data.
As Dennis points out you should never copy over the /media/ folder from local unless it contains the content, which should also be displayed on your live environment.
Apart from that there are no other content folder on the disk as such.
However I recommend that you leave out the /AppData/TEMP folder as well when doing your deploy. As the name implies it contains temporary files, which you don't want to copy up on your live site. Furthermore you should not copy over the /AppData/Logs folder either. No need to have your local logs on your server.
Also be aware of maintaining a local web.config and a live web.config if you are using another connection string in production for another database containing live data.
Same goes for /config/UmbracoSettings.config if you make use of the
That's what I can think of from the top of my mind.
Which folders contain user content?
Hi All,
We're working on a way of deploying Umbraco by basically just copying all of the Umbraco install into the right place, but we don't want to copy over the folders that contain user content (like images, and Media). Does anyone know which folders can have user content in them (again like images and Media) and which ones don't? The ones that don't we can copy over with our new content without problem, but we don't want to overwrite user data.
Hi Joel and welcome to our,
The only folder as I know that contains user content in the Umbraco file structure is this Media folder. You can read about the different folders in the Umbraco installation here: http://our.umbraco.org/wiki/reference/files-and-folders/permissions
But the only folder I usually don´t copy to the production site is the Media folder.
Hope this helps,
/Dennis
Wow, thanks for the quick reply. It should be really helpful!
Hi Joel and welcome to our :)
As Dennis points out you should never copy over the /media/ folder from local unless it contains the content, which should also be displayed on your live environment.
Apart from that there are no other content folder on the disk as such.
However I recommend that you leave out the /AppData/TEMP folder as well when doing your deploy. As the name implies it contains temporary files, which you don't want to copy up on your live site. Furthermore you should not copy over the /AppData/Logs folder either. No need to have your local logs on your server.
Also be aware of maintaining a local web.config and a live web.config if you are using another connection string in production for another database containing live data.
Same goes for /config/UmbracoSettings.config if you make use of the
That's what I can think of from the top of my mind.
Hope this helps.
/Jan
Thank you very much for the information. This is all very helpful.
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