Multiple website synchronisation

Posted: Sun Apr 24, 2011 4:36 pm

Anyone here have experience deploying multiple websites?

I cannot find anything off-the-shelf that fit my needs, which is;
Deploy all (or selectable) files from one 'source' to two or three locations simultaneously.
The end locations would be a combination of local and remote servers.

I have looked at Hudson Servers, CVS/SVN and that doesn't fit the requirements, except of course for the fact that the original source is version controlled.

Because I only really need to selectable top level directories and the public root files I'm toying with the idea of writing a small GUI in Python to do the job or possibly a bash script.

Any thoughts on other solutions?

Posted: Sun Apr 24, 2011 6:01 pm

Have you investigated whether any FTP software has this capability? I don't know the answer but I use Smartftp and it seems to have quite a few advanced capabilities.

Or perhaps question whether you really need "simultaneously". As long as it's a "batch" job that you can kick off and go have dinner (or sleep) what's the difference if it does it simultaneously or sequentially?

Posted: Sun Apr 24, 2011 9:34 pm

Doh!
Hadn't even occured to me to use FTP to transfer files locally. That would work - thanks!

Posted: Mon Apr 25, 2011 6:00 am

Guardian2003,

If you figure any thing out I would LOVE to hear about it.

I run a bunch of sites on the same code base. I do it by hand.

Dawg

Posted: Mon Apr 25, 2011 7:27 am

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See the tutorial on multi-upload. I have never used it and have no need to but it might work for you. I use smartftp all the time; works fine.

registered · Posted: Wed Apr 27, 2011 5:52 am

One could also automate using Phing. While I have not used its S/FTP options, I am sure their as good as everything else about it. I have taken my development --> release cycle down from hours to seconds with Phing now and where I wouldn't have even considered alpha and beta or RC type releases, I wouldn't have any qualms with doing it now.

Posted: Wed Apr 27, 2011 7:13 am

Thanks, I'll look at Phing.
SmartFTP seems to be Windows only and FileZilla doesn't have the same multi-upload feature that SmartFTP has so Phing might be a viable option.

Posted: Wed Apr 27, 2011 11:46 am

You may want to take a look at WebCeo
http://www.webceo.com/download/?source=Friend

Posted: Wed Apr 27, 2011 1:19 pm

I have used that before, it's an SEO tool, unless they have added some new functionality recently. Although I could probably run it under Wine or in my VirtualBox, it's for Windows so I wouldn't use it.

Posted: Wed Apr 27, 2011 3:19 pm

I mentioned it because you were looking at other ftp programs. Webceo is always updating, so there is always the possibility they may have added new functions.