My development team is moving away from developing on mapped drives\/file shares to using cloud-hosted servers on Amazon Web Services (AWS). This is introducing a change to our usual workflow, as our access to the remote servers is limited to SSH and SFTP.<\/p>\n
Although I previously used Apache Ant<\/a> scripts through Eclipse<\/a> to facilitate deploying application updates, the scripts were generally unpopular with the rest of the development team. (Many of them do not use Eclipse and preferred just to drop-and-drag files from their development sandboxes to the development or production servers.) Additionally, my original Ant scripts relied on the sync command to synchronize folders on the file shares.<\/p>\n Here is a revised Ant script that uses SCP (Secure Copy)–not SFTP but achieves the same goal–to deploy application files from a developer sandbox to the development or production server:<\/p>\n There are a couple issues with this script to be aware of:<\/p>\n My development team is moving away from developing on mapped drives\/file shares to using cloud-hosted servers on Amazon Web Services (AWS). This is introducing a change to our usual workflow, as our access to the remote servers is limited to SSH and SFTP. Although I previously used Apache Ant scripts through Eclipse to facilitate deploying … Continue reading ANT deployment script and SFTP<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11,232],"tags":[304,305,306],"class_list":["post-945","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-process","category-tips-tricks","tag-ant","tag-deployment","tag-eclipse"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/osric.com\/chris\/accidental-developer\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/945","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/osric.com\/chris\/accidental-developer\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/osric.com\/chris\/accidental-developer\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/osric.com\/chris\/accidental-developer\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/osric.com\/chris\/accidental-developer\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=945"}],"version-history":[{"count":7,"href":"https:\/\/osric.com\/chris\/accidental-developer\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/945\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":955,"href":"https:\/\/osric.com\/chris\/accidental-developer\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/945\/revisions\/955"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/osric.com\/chris\/accidental-developer\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=945"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/osric.com\/chris\/accidental-developer\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=945"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/osric.com\/chris\/accidental-developer\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=945"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}<project name=\"Deploy myapp\" default=\"Sandbox to Dev\">\r\n <input message=\"Username:\" addproperty=\"username\" \/>\r\n <input message=\"Password:\" addproperty=\"passwd\" \/>\r\n <property name=\"applicationFolder\" value=\"myapp\"\/>\r\n <property name=\"site\" value=\"osric.com\"\/>\r\n <property name=\"sandboxRoot\" value=\"${basedir}\"\/>\r\n <property \r\n name=\"development\" \r\n value=\"${username}:${passwd}@dev.osric.com:\/home\/web\/${site}\/${applicationFolder}\"\/>\r\n <property \r\n name=\"production\" \r\n value=\"${username}:${passwd}@osric.com:\/home\/web\/${site}\/${applicationFolder}\"\/>\r\n <target name=\"Sandbox to Dev\">\r\n <scp todir=\"${development}\" trust=\"true\">\r\n <fileset dir=\"${sandboxRoot}\">\r\n <exclude name=\"**\/build.xml\"\/>\r\n <exclude name=\"**\/.*\"\/>\r\n <\/fileset>\r\n <\/scp>\r\n <\/target>\r\n <target name=\"Sandbox to Production\">\r\n <scp todir=\"${production}\" trust=\"true\">\r\n <fileset dir=\"${sandboxRoot}\">\r\n <exclude name=\"**\/build.xml\"\/>\r\n <exclude name=\"**\/.*\"\/>\r\n <\/fileset>\r\n <\/scp>\r\n <\/target>\r\n<\/project><\/code><\/pre>\n\n
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