Team City: Skip web.config when deploying using Web Deploy

Question

I deploy a project by using build parameters such as:

systemDeployOnBuild = true

system.DeployIISAppPath = [something]

system.DeployTarget = MSDeployPublish

and a few other parameters to target my IIS Web Deploy server.

How can I prevent the web config from being deployed with it?

Thanks!

Answer 1

Define property ExcludeFilesFromDeployment. The value is semicolon separated list of files and wildcards to exclude from deployment.

So for exclusion of web config define ExcludeFilesFromDeployment=Web.config

Answer 2

Assuming you are using msdeploy via command line you can use -skip parameter as follows:

-skip:objectName=filePath,absolutePath="^.*web\.config$"

In this example I'm using regular expression to exclude all web.configs, but you can also type in relative path to your web.config file.