WebMatrix Advanced Tutorial (9): How to deploy a website

Introduction: Microsoft WebMatrix is ​​a free tool that can be used to create, customize, and publish websites on the Internet.

WebMatrix enables you to create websites easily. You can start with an open source application (such as WordPress, Joomla, DotNetNuke or Orchard) and WebMatrix handles the task of downloading, installing and configuring the application for you. Or you can write the code yourself using the many built-in templates that will help you get started quickly. Whatever you choose, WebMatrix provides everything your website needs to run, including web servers, databases, and frameworks. By using the same stack on your development desktop that you would use on your web host, the process of bringing your website online is easy and smooth.
You can download it from http://web.ms/webmatrix.
Now you can learn to use WebMatrix, CSS, HTML, HTML5, ASP.NET, SQL, databases, and how to write simple web applications in just a few hours. The content is as follows:
You have gone through a long process! Starting out by creating a simple HTML page and then learning how to style it, you have now created a fully dynamic website that generates its pages using data from a database located on the server side. You can also edit, update, and delete records in the database, demonstrating a complete web application scenario.

Although this application is very simple, it is the basis for a complete web application built using ASP.Net and Razor in WebMatrix. You must think it's easy!

Find a Hosting Provider

But there is one final step, and that is to use a web hosting provider to publish your application to the Internet.

WebMatrix comes with an integrated web hosting library that helps you find the best hosting provider for your website. If you go to the "Site" workspace in WebMatrix you will see the following interface:

Register with Cytanium

For this section I will use Cytanium as they have a free hosting product for WebMatrix.

Visit their website and click on the intuitive "Free Signup" button:

You will be asked to provide very basic details of your free account , which is your name, and an email address where they can send you your registration details.

Configure WebMatrix to publish to Cytanium

Click "Register" and wait a moment, you will get an email from noreply@cytanium.com e-mail. Scroll down in this email to find the section called "WebMatrix-WebDeploy(preferred)" - it should look like the image below:

Now in WebMatrix Open the Sites workspace and find the "Publish" button. Click the arrow at the bottom of it to expand it and select "Settings"

will open the publishing settings. Fill in the details you got from the email:

Click "Validate Connection" to make sure the settings are correct:

If they are correct, you should see the "Connected Successfully" flag as shown in the image above.

Click "Save" to exit the Publish Settings dialog box.

Now expand the "Publish" button again and this time select "Publish..."

You will see Go to a "Publish Preview" screen where WebMatrix determines the changes on your site. Depending on what you've been doing lately, you may see a different setup than here, especially if you're first publishing and many of the file dependencies on your development PC are missing from the server. If this is the case, don't worry. Just make sure the database box is selected like in the image below and click "Continue".

Publishing will begin and you will see its progress on the yellow progress bar at the bottom of the WebMatrix window. When completed you will see the progress complete and for your convenience you will be given the URL of the completed website:

View your site online

Click on the URL and you will see the website running on the Internet. You may also see a "Website Coming Soon" message because you don't have a default page on your site yet. For now, select that URL and add /dataMovies.cshtml at the end like this:

http://laurencemoro02.webmatrix01.cytanium.com/dataMovies.cshtml

(where laurencemoro02. webmatrix01.cytanium.com is my website, you will have a different address)

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