msdeploy (Web Deploy) failing with 401 auth issues

Question

I\'m trying to get msdeploy installed and set up. I\'ve installed the remote service on the web server, but all my tests are giving me a 401 unauthorised

Answer 1

For me, publishing worked in Visual Studio, but it did not work when I ran the .deploy.cmd script.

By setting true in your .csproj, you can force VS to use msdeploy.exe instead of an MSBuild task. Then by turning up the logging level (Tools > Options > Projects and Solutions > Build and Run > MSBuild project build output verbosity) you can see the command line that VS uses.

The problems with my .deploy.cmd were:

• My IIS user only had permissions on that site so I needed ?site= in the computerName.
• I needed AuthType='Basic' in the -dest: parameter.