Simple command line tool to deploy a folder or a zip file to an Azure Website using WebDeploy. See this post for details.

Note: the .PublishSettings file discussed here is the one you can download for a specific Azure Web App via the portal.

Sample use:

WAWSDeploy c:\somefolder mysite.PublishSettings
WAWSDeploy c:\somefile.zip mysite.PublishSettings

With optional password argument

WAWSDeploy c:\somefolder mysite.PublishSettings /p mypubsettingspassword
WAWSDeploy c:\somefolder mysite.PublishSettings /password mypubsettingspassword

Allowing untrusted cert

WAWSDeploy c:\somefolder mysite.PublishSettings /au

Delete files on the remote host

WAWSDeploy c:\somefolder mysite.PublishSettings /d

Use checksums instead of timestamps

WAWSDeploy c:\somefolder mysite.PublishSettings /c

Verbose Logging

WAWSDeploy c:\somefolder mysite.PublishSettings /v

What If deployment

WAWSDeploy c:\somefolder mysite.PublishSettings /w

Target Path - The virtual directory to deploy to

WAWSDeploy C:\somefolder mysite.PublisSettings /t someVirtualDirectoryName

Target Path - Using a physical target folder

WAWSDeploy C:\somefolder mysite.PublisSettings /t d:\home\site\blah

npm install -g grunt-cli
npm install
grunt

Add /AppOffline switch

Add /TargetPath switch

Add /TargetPath switch

Add -t switch to allow targeted deployment to a specific virtual directory.

Add -WhatIf and -deleteexistingfiles switches

Add support for untrusted certs.

Support optionally passing password

Support publishing from zip files

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