Deployment

You use the following deployment procedures to migrate a Sitefinity project from your development machine to a production server. After the physical relocation of the application, all CMS functionality continues to operate. You do not need to install Sitefinity on the server. You must only move the files of the project to the production server.

IMPORTANT: To successfully deploy Sitefinity, your hosting provider must support .NET 4.0 Framework and Full trust. You can find a list of Sitefinity’s official hosting partners on http://www.sitefinity.com/partners/hosting-partners.aspx.

The following screenshot is an example of your project files:

The files are located in your Projects folder.

For more information about managing your project files, see File management.

Section contents

• Deploy projects to shared hosting
  Use this procedure to migrate an existing Sitefinity project from your development machine to a shared hosting using an FTP connection.
• Deploy projects to a private virtual server
  Use this procedure to migrate an existing Sitefinity project to a virtual server to which you have full access.
• Deploy Sitefinity projects to Windows Azure
  Use this procedure to migrate your Sitefinity project to Windows Azure cloud services.