Umbraco - Deployment Issues

When deploying umbraco MSBuild may complain about web.config files in non-standard locations.

1. Umbraco to Azure / Transformed Web.config MSDeploy error

   Interesting blog entry detailing developer's findings.
2. umbraco 721 build fails after deploy to azure website - Installing umbraco - our.umbrac...

   Umbraco Our Forum discussions on issue.
3. nuget targets file creates an invalid path in the property group

   Umbraco Bug report relating to web.config issues.
4. ASP.NET Web Application: Publish/Package Tokenizing Parameters

   How to solve the problem by preventing Connection String tokenisation.
5. Why are some Web.config transforms tokenised into SetParameters.xml and others are not?

   Web.config Connection String tokenisation explained.
6. How to: Disable Web.config Transformation

   Disabling tokenisation.

In particular solving issues with hosting on SmarterASP.net - a typical .NET host provider.

1. SmarterAsp.NET ACL Article

   How to reset ACL USER privileges to read/write after MSDeploy has mucked them up.
2. How to stop Web Deploy/MSBuild from messing up server permissions

   WebDeploy can set files and IIS user privileges to read only. Here's how to stop it.
3. How to solve error 'Exception Details: System.Security.SecurityException: Request failed'.

   How to set (request) full access for local web application.

Site can't be reached shown when trying to reach (redirected to) Umbraco Install screen.

1. HTTP Compression

   More information on dynamic compression.
2. problem with dynamic compression - Installing umbraco - our.umbraco.org

   Dynamic compression can cause problems.