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TeamCity FTP plugin 501 error: Cannot accept argument

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While investigating options for deploying Sitecore to Azure, I found a TeamCity deploy plugin that supported FTP (among other things). Unfortunately, after trying to get it up and running I ran into the following 501 error while using FTPES (explicit FTPS):

“Failed to upload artifacts via FTP. Reply was: 501 server cannot accept argument”

Investigating on the server, I found the following in the IIS server logs:

“Client IP on the control channel didn’t match the client IP on the data channel”

A little bit of Google digging later, I found some chatter on the issue on the plugin’s GitHub issues list. That thread pointed to a patch build with options to specify Active versus Passive in the FTP mode. It turns out I needed Passive, but the original plugin download didn’t support it.

If you also need this functionality, this is the link to the plugin developer’s build which supports an option to specify Passive versus Active on the FTP mode:

https://teamcity.jetbrains.com/guestAuth/repository/download/bt402/662499:id/deploy-runner.zip?guest=1

 

Fourth Day of Christmas… Continuous Integration tools!

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On the fourth day of Christmas, my true blog gave to me:

Four CI tools,
Three powershell scripts,
Two Keystone merge tips,
…and a placeholder rule in the content tree.

We all love checking out tools, so here are four Continuous Integration applications you can put under your tree this Christmas!
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TeamCity PowerShell scripts run with “- File” always return exit code zero

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TeamCityAre you finding that your TeamCity Powershell scripts are always returning exit code zero (a success) no matter what happens? Even when an exception is thrown and you can see the error message in your build log?

I ran into this problem recently while moving some of my Powershell scripts into script files in source control. It turns out this is not an issue in TeamCity, but rather caused by a bug in Powershell itself. Never fear, there is a workaround!
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Getting started with Agile ALM for Sitecore

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application-lifecycle-managementOver the last few years, I’ve been trying to iteratively improve our own processes at nonlinear to deliver better Sitecore solutions and set our clients up for maintainable and sustainable ALM processes. Some of my posts on automated Sitecore deployments with TFS or TeamCity outlined some of the initial steps we took in automated deployments.  Recently, we posted a brief series to help folks getting into Application Lifecycle Management:

The first new piece of content I put together on this was a slideshare introducing ALM concepts of tool and process improvements, just to get people thinking about where they are in the process and what they need to change. I also covered how to achieve this with continuous improvement model, instead of trying to do a big-bang delivery.

The second piece I wrote covers why ALM matters for Sitecore (and pretty much any web application).  The post covers some of the primary benefits of ALM, as well as how to apply ALM processes during your Sitecore implementations.

The third piece, written by my colleague Mauro, highlights some tips for automated testing of Sitecore implementations, specifically with Selenium. He’s been doing some really awesome things with automated testing of Content Editor, Page Editor, and the end-user flows.

The recommended reads:

Sitecore Continuous Deployment: Video presentation from SVUG

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SitecoreI had planned on kicking off a short series on how to tackle the challenges of Sitecore Continuous Deployment, but after I had written my post the Sitecore Virtual User Group (SVUG) held an online Q&A presentation by Jason Bert on Continuous Integration & Deployment. The presentation is a great introduction to the concepts and challenges.

Some notes on the presentation

Tools used:

TeamCity (build), Git (source control), Octopus Deploy (deployment), and Sitecore Courier (create update packages).

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Automating Sitecore Deployments with TeamCity and TDS

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TeamCityDuring development, your team makes a lot of changes to fields, templates, presentation details, and various other elements that need to be tracked, verified, and deployed.  You need a way to source control those database changes, and then make them available to your team to test.  Here’s how to accomplish that using TeamCity and Team Development for Sitecore (TDS)!

Sitecore content items in source control

Our teams use Team Development for Sitecore from Hedgehog Development to create .NET TDS projects to source control the changes we make in the Sitecore database.  There’s a great guide from Hedgehog to start with, and I’ve also just written a post on some project configuration basics.

Automating deployments of Sitecore content items

With your content items now in Source Control, you can start getting your database changes deployed along with your build.

Note: This assumes you are automating your file deployments to push code changes out to your environments.  If you aren’t yet, you should be!  Look for my upcoming posts on setting up deployment build configurations.

In order to get TeamCity to be able to deploy, there are a few things you need:

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