Hi

Chauffeur is a command line for umbraco allows you to do some scripting of things like install which will provision the DB (although i am not sure it works on all db types)

even if you don't use it - it might be worth looking at the code to see how it does the provisioning.

https://github.com/aaronpowell/Chauffeur/blob/master/Chauffeur/Deliverables/InstallDeliverable.cs

in terms of more complex things beyond hte basic setup you need something to get the datatypes etc. over then you could look at Courier or uSync (disclaimer: i wrote that!) which even had a Chauffeur deliverable so you can in theory run that stuff on the command line to.

Hi Kevin,

first of all thank you for your reply. I just reviewed the code of Chauffeur and it is doing sort of the same thing I have tried. There are quite a few extra steps that you have to know about (from checking the source code install steps) and replicate. One thing that is already bothersome with the approach is that if you try and do anything extra beyond provisioning the database, you have to set up an ApplicationContext, for which you have to mimic an HTTP Application in a console app. The code below does exactly this and looks similar to some of the calls in Chauffeur.

The main issue with all of this is that it is unsupportable given the fact that you cannot be sure whether you are doing all steps necessary. Of course you might end up in a working scenario, but any new version of Umbraco is going to mess this up. We have no desire to keep on looking at the source code to mimic installations, but would rather see that Umbraco itself provides a stable and supported approach to scripting environments. My guess is that it doesn't and will not.

Thanks for the link!

Regards, Wouter

var application = new TestUmbracoApplication();
application.Start();
var ctx = ApplicationContext.Current;
DatabaseSchemaHelper helper = new DatabaseSchemaHelper(
    ctx.DatabaseContext.Database,
    ctx.ProfilingLogger.Logger,
    ctx.DatabaseContext.SqlSyntax);
helper.CreateDatabaseSchema(ApplicationContext.Current);

IUser userById = ctx.Services.UserService.GetUserById(0);
MembershipUser adminMember = MembershipProviderExtensions.GetUsersMembershipProvider().GetUser(0, true);

adminMember.ChangePassword("default", args[1]);
DistributedCache.Instance.RefreshAll(DistributedCache.PageCacheRefresherGuid);

Hi

I know! but i actually think this is something that the core team are looking at - there have been several changes in recent versions of umbraco to remove the dependency on the HttpContext from several places, and making the whole BootLoader stuff a lot simpler.

I think (from talks i've seen and people i've spoken to) that the core team are working towards this more, and things like Umbraco Deploy (which will be the successor to Courier) is going to make this type of thing simpler. hopefully

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