MSDeploy WMSVC Not working

msbuild jenkins msdeploy
Ian Davies picture Ian Davies · May 23, 2013 · Viewed 7.6k times · Source

I have a build/test server which is currently running Jenkins for my continuous integration and it also is acting as my test server where code will be deployed to once built (i hope to rectify this and seperate these at a later date when budget allows)

I have a .NET web solution (nothing complex just Umbraco essentially) that i have in SVN and Jenkins is now building correctly. I now want to deploy it onto the same server using MSDeploy. After the build completes the package is generated but the deploy fails with the error

ERROR_DESTINATION_NOT_REACHABLE: Web deployment task failed. (Could not connect to the remote computer ("xxxxx.xxxxxxx.xxx.xxxx"). On the remote computer, make sure that Web Deploy is installed and that the required process ("Web Management Service") is started

Here is my msbuild parameters that Jenkins uses

/P:Configuration=Release 
/P:DeployOnBuild=True 
/P:MSDeployPublishMethod=WMSVC 
/P:DeployTarget=MSDeployPublish 
/P:PublishProfile=GetSomePixels 
/P:MsDeployServiceUrl=https://build.######## 
/P:AllowUntrustedCertificate=True 
/P:CreatePackageOnPublish=True 
/P:UserName=####### 
/P:Password=########

I've checked the server and the Web Management Service is running and is starting up manually

I've also gone into IIS 8 manager (server 2012) and checked the "Allow Remote Connections" box under "Management Service". Restarted IIS and the WMSVC and still not working.

If i go to https://myserver.co.uk:8172/MsDeploy.axd in a browser it resolves (gives you the warning about an untrusted cert) and then displays a blank page.

Anyone got any ideas as to what i can do? I thought that it may be firewall related and even though it had added an exception to windows firewall for 8172 i have turned the entire firewall off to completely rulle that out and still no luck.

Have run this on the server to check its listening on the correct port

C:\Users\Administrator>netstat -a | findstr 8172 TCP 0.0.0.0:8172 GSP-BUILD:0 LISTENING TCP [::]:8172 GSP-BUILD:0 LISTENING

Answer

Ian Davies picture Ian Davies · Oct 10, 2017

Ok i've resolved this. 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

Related questions

Web Deployment through MSDeploy.exe

I'm configuring a CI build server with Jenkins. After the build steps I'd like to deploy the website. When publishing the the website from VisualStudio I published by Web Deploy. I like that method because it actually publish those file …

Read More
The OutputPath property is not set for project

Building my Jenkins/MSBuild solution gives me this error c:\WINDOWS\Microsoft.NET\Framework\v4.0.30319\Microsoft.Common.targets(483,9): error : The OutputPath property is not set for project '<projectname>.csproj'. Please check to make sure that you have …

Read More
Run batch file as administrator on Jenkins?

We're using Jenkins on Win8 x64 to build (msbuild), package (cspack), run (csrun) and test (nunit) an azure cloud services project. The Azure cloud service emulators need to run as administrator plus we need to bind to ports 80/443 (so can't …

Read More