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Friday, October 01, 2010

How to Deploy ASP.NET Web Application in Hosting Web Server

How to deploy ASP.NET website 


All the efforts have been made to create a beautiful website at the end of the day. This is good enough to see your output in your local machine (local host). But this is not why the web applications (or websites) are actually meant for. Then, how do you make your website (your personal pages) to the general public. Then you say deploy the website (web application) to a hosting server.

Here comes the difficulty for layman (even, few of us who are familiar with technology) how to approach.

So I decided to post a details explanation with examples and screen shots to explain the same.

There are 2 ways you can publish or deploy your website
  1. Deploy the source files to the web server
  2. Deploy the pre-compiled website (Recommended)
The following are the easy steps to deploy your website (or web application) with the pre-compiled way (Will discuss the first method later)