MSDeploy - Destination Not Reachable

seanbun picture seanbun · Sep 19, 2013 · Viewed 13.7k times · Source

I have installed Web Deploy 3.5 on Windows Server 2008 R2 and tried to run remote publish web application through visual studio 2012. However, I got the error - Destination Not Reachable.

I read some post and checked below and still got no luck.

Did I miss anything? Thanks.

Answer

Mark van Straten picture Mark van Straten · Jan 8, 2014

Maybe same issue as in https://stackoverflow.com/questions/16708021/msdeploy-wmsvc-not-working ?

It appears you have to activate the web management service first and then install web deploy and i'd done it the other way round. I uninstalled WebDeploy and re-installed it, restarted the server and its working