I've been working on an umbraco 4.5 website, for the last couple of months. The site is not yet live. The client had the request to launch the website on the Azure platform.
I've tried using the accelerators and deploying the packages on azure using the accelerators project on codeplex but have only managed to install a "fresh" installation of umbraco. Deploying the Umbraco version we've been working on finishes with an 500 Internal Server Error message...
1. Now i would need a tool to migrate all the content created, data types, templates, masterpages, css, styles, everything from this development environment to the production (the fresh install of umbraco on Windows Azure). I'd like to know if Courier would normally support this feature.
2. Can Courier keep in perfect sync two verions of Umbraco?
I don't believe Courier will copy your templates etc. Creating an Umbraco package will allow you transfer all your templates, css, usercontrols, macros etc. very easily and you might as well transfer your content in the package for the first time also. This will ensure the nodes on the live server have the same Ids as they do on the dev server. You can then use courier to keep the two servers in sync if you need to do ongoing development.
Migration/Sync - Can Courier Handle this?
Hello,
I've been working on an umbraco 4.5 website, for the last couple of months. The site is not yet live. The client had the request to launch the website on the Azure platform.
I've tried using the accelerators and deploying the packages on azure using the accelerators project on codeplex but have only managed to install a "fresh" installation of umbraco. Deploying the Umbraco version we've been working on finishes with an 500 Internal Server Error message...
1. Now i would need a tool to migrate all the content created, data types, templates, masterpages, css, styles, everything from this development environment to the production (the fresh install of umbraco on Windows Azure). I'd like to know if Courier would normally support this feature.
2. Can Courier keep in perfect sync two verions of Umbraco?
Thank you,
Catalin
Courier was designed for exactly what you want... sync development with staging and/or production.
You'll need to install it on both installations.. one as client and one as host.
I don't believe Courier will copy your templates etc. Creating an Umbraco package will allow you transfer all your templates, css, usercontrols, macros etc. very easily and you might as well transfer your content in the package for the first time also. This will ensure the nodes on the live server have the same Ids as they do on the dev server. You can then use courier to keep the two servers in sync if you need to do ongoing development.
Courier 2.0 will certainly transfers your templates, it's in Beta at the moment.
Never used the original Courier, so can't comment.
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