Gav.... wrote:
> 
> ----- Original Message ----- 
> From: "Gav...." <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> To: <[email protected]>
> Sent: Saturday, October 29, 2005 8:35 PM
> Subject: Re: Trying to run forrestbot...
> |
> | Yes, I can ftp from the command-line no problem,
> | I can not suspect a connection problem at the
> | moment because the forrestbot is not even trying
> | to make a connection, the FTP part of the script
> | simply is not being executed at all.
> |
> | It may be an error in my script, but from the details
> | I have on Forrestbot I can not see what is wrong/missing
> | at this point, I will keep looking.
> 
> Answering myself again, I found the problem.
> 
> I looked inside deploy.xml and changed this line :-
> 
>   <target name="deploy.ftp" unless="build.failed" description="Forrestbot:
>     Deploy via FTP">
> 
> to
> 
>   <target name="deploy.ftp" unless="" description="Forrestbot:
>     Deploy via FTP">
>
> So, all deploy methods will not occur on a build failure by default.
> (You must have changed yours sometime David)

No.

> Whether this should be over-ridden in the user defined forrestbot file I
> dont know, but it works now, and combined with the turning on
> of CLI checksums in cli.xconf, only updates via ftp those files
> that have been changed.
> 
> It's all good :)

The checksums bit is definitely good.

Being able to deploy a broken site would cause problems. 

I wonder how i managed to do it. Perhaps it was because i do
separate actions with the forrestbot: 'build', then investigate
the brokenlinks reports and log files and sometimes view,
then 'deploy'.

-David