How to Publish Using Web Deploy with Plesk Control Panel in Visual Studio?

Overview:

Microsoft launched Web Deploy, which is essentially a client-server tool. It simplifies the maintenance, migration, and deployment processes for websites.

In short, you can use Web Deploy to publish updates to your production server after writing code in a local environment like Visual Studio or Web Matrix.

Let us look at how to use the Plesk Control Panel to publish your website using Web Deploy in this article. Okay, let us get started!

Steps to Publish Using Web Deploy with Plesk Control Panel 

Here are the steps to publish using Web Deploy with Plesk control panel.

Step 1: Activate Web Deploy Feature through Plesk Control Panel

The first step is to get into your control panel and enable the “Web Deploy Publishing” feature. Using the industry-best Plesk control panel, for instance, you may quickly access your hosting account by entering your username and password.

A list of setup choices, such as websites and domains, resource usage, emails, etc., will show after the username and password have been entered.

Click Hosting Setting and select Web Deploy Publishing to activate your Web deploy settings in the Plesk Control Panel.

After ticking on the Web Deploy publishing, download all the required files by simply clicking on the Web Deploy Publishing Settings.

Step 2: Open Your Visual Studio

The next action is to launch and edit your publishing project by logging into your Visual Studio application. Next, right-click on this project in the “Solution Explorer” menu on the left, then select “Publish” from the drop-down list.

Once you click, there will be a “Publish Web” window where you will see numerous options that include Profile, Settings, Connection and Preview.

From the Profile tab, you can then import the publish profile by clicking on the import option. It’s also possible to use Custom settings. If there’s a need to import your downloaded publish profile, you need to click on the “Browse” button to choose it from the local computer. 

After this, click on the Connection tab and select the Web Deploy method here. 

Provided that you have already imported a publish profile in the last step, the remaining settings field will be automatically filled as given below. 

Site Name: Here, you fill in the name of your ISS website and application, such as webservice.com and webservice/MyApplication. 

Server URL: Here, to deploy your web application to a hosting provider, the IIS on the local computer, or an internal server. 

User Name & Password: You enter the login credentials for an account to give the authority to execute certain deployment tasks. 

Simply click the “Validate Connection” button to establish a connection with the server when you have finished configuring all the options. In the event that a “Certificate Error” appears, check to see if the publishing URL is accurate.

Step 4: Configuring Your Settings

In this step, click on the “Settings” tab and then choose the “Release” publish method in the drop-down ” Configuration” list.
Choose the “Debug” method only if you want to deploy to a test environment.
Aside from this, you also need to define the “File Publish” options. Each option can be understood easily, and you can keep checking the correspondent boxes as you like.

Step 5: Publish Your Web Project

After you have done with all the above steps, you can again preview your settings, and then you can publish your website. It takes time to complete the publishing process, and you can check if the deployment process is complete in the Output window of Visual studio.
The other option is, to go back again to the Plesk control panel and then navigate to “File Manager” and then your website URL.

So, this is how you can publish your web project using web deploy with the Plesk control panel.