Use Git and a .deployment File to Deploy an Orchard CMS Precomplied Build to a Windows Azure Website

Thursday, September 11, 2014 7:02:38 PM

Note: while this works, it isn't a best practice for continuous delivery, because it adds build results to the repository.

Clone the Orchard Source into SomeDirectory .
Add a .deployment file to SomeDirectory (from powershell, ni – t file –n .deployment )

SomeDirectory will now contain:

.git 
.deployment 
lib 
src 
.gitignore 
build.cmd 
ClickToBuild.cmd 
ClickToBuildAzurePackage.cmd 
CREDITS.txt 
DeleteModuleBinaries.cmd 
LICENSE.txt 
Orchard.proj

Open a Developer Command prompt at SomeDirectory . Run build precompiled . It’ll add these two new folders to SomeDirectory .
```
build 
buildtasks
```
Open your .deployment file. Add the following
```
[config] 
project = build/precompiled
```

Note: If you have a .gitignore file that ignores the build/ directory, you must ask git to force add everything from the precompiled folder (except App_Data and Media, because they will contain live stuff that we add from the Orchard UI)

git add -f bin/*
git add -f Config/*
git add -f Core/*
git add -f Modules/*
git add -f Themes/*
git add -f CREDITS.txt
git add -f Global.asax
git add -f LICENSE.txt
git add -f Refresh.html
git add -f Web.config
(Yes. Git is case sensitive).

Finally, create a new Windows Azure website with deployment from version control > GitHub > etc.

If you’ve followed the steps above, and check out your Azure Website through FTP, you should see the following:

This is what it will look like online:

Resources

https://github.com/projectkudu/kudu/wiki/Customizing-deployments (.deployment)

http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/ms229859%28v=vs.110%29.aspx (Developer Command Prompt)