Hi Lee

Could you describe how your local site is setup? For instance are you using a local MSSQL server or is the DB server you're connected to the same for both local and live? or do you simply the embedded CE SQL database?

Or are you for instance using webmatrix to develop the site etc.

There is no single answer to this, since it can be done in more ways depending on how your setup and your need is.

In general terms you would need to do the following on the server

1) Copy the files onto the server using FTP for instance
2) Script your database and import it to your your database server
3) Setup your site in IIS and make sure that the proper permissions have been set for the umbraco root folder and for the DB user

You could also purchase a courier license, which will make the deployment process a breeze but may be overkill if you're building a minor site :)

So please ellaborate a bit more on your current local setup and what you have access to on the server.

/Jan

Hi Jan

I am producing the site locally with sqlexpress, none of it is live at the moment, I am running it locally on localhost.

Are there any deployment documents I can take a look at?

I have webhosting and am hoping that I can install it there but unsure of how I go about using IIS to set up my server.

Many thanks

Hi. Since Umbraco is just a regular asp.net application you can use any method of deployment that's applicable to asp.net applications in general. There're a plenty of methods and options: http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/bb386521.aspx and which one is most convenient and suitable in your particular case depends a lot on your local development environment, hosting support and so on.

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