I've got an MVC 5 project stored in Git. I've installed TeamCity 9.1.7 (build 37573) on our build server and I've set it up to successfully perform a build when a developer checks in code to Git. My goal is to deploy the MVC application using MS Web Deploy if the build is successful. I've seen a number of tutorials that suggest using a web deploy package, but these tutorials are six or more years old. Is this still the preferred method for deploying a successful TeamCity build to IIS?
Further, we've added the web.config file to gitignore for a number of reasons. Git houses as Web.config.base that developers will copy to their own web.config file as a starting point. A developer will copy the web.config.base file to web.config when they first pull down the project. I've tried to set up a command line task in TeamCity to xcopy the web.config.base file to web.config
Working Directory: (left blank) Command: xcopy MyMVCProject\Web.config.base MyMVCProject\Web.config
This build step fails with exit code 4 at all times. I've set the TeamCity build agent service to run as a local administrator. I've tried this as straight command text as above, as a cmd or bat file, and with a variety of different path styles, going so far as to use the TeamCity working directory variable, excluding the MyMVCProject from the path, including the MyMVCSolution in the path, etc. Any ideas as to why the xcopy would fail?
This is the same problem I was facing.
But at last, we put the master web.config file on the server where TeamCity is installed.
Then once the Project gets deployed , I replaced the web.config file with the web.config file which is alreay present on server. So there will be no conflict in the web.cofig file
You just need to add one more build step after the Web deploy step. In that you can use Xcopy and you can replaced you web.config file
Hope this will work