How to use msdeploy and target a specific site?

Question

When using msdeploy and the msdeploy.axd handler any attempts to deploy to my remote server is met with a 401 not authorized error and the server logs

IIS

Answer 1

If you use Web Deploy Tool 2.0 you can use IIS Manager UI to enable non-admin users to deploy website:

1. Start IIS Manager
2. Right-click the site you want to publish to, click Deploy and then click “Configure Web Deploy Publishing...”

When you click Setup button Web Deploy grants necessary permissions to selected user. You can discard generated file.

See Announcing Web Deploy 2.0 Refresh!

Answer 2

If you're using WMSvc, I'm assuming this is IIS7 ...

If so, then you can deploy with a normal account but you have to make sure these 3 criteria are met:

Your account needs to have: 1 IIS Manager permission for the site/app you are trying to connect with. 2 A delegation rule for msdeploy, that states that you are allowed to do ContentPath operations. 3 Actual filesystem/ACL access to the files.

Answer 3

This might depend on how you're specifying the connection on the client side as well - if you're using msdeploy.exe you would specify the computername argument including a "?site=" query so that you connect at that site level rather than the server level, for example:

msdeploy.exe -verb:dump -source:iisapp="siteName",computername=https://servername:8172/msdeploy.axd?site=siteName,username=user,password=pass,authType=basic [-allowUntrusted]