Copy Project Dialog Box

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Use this dialog box to copy an entire Web project or collection of Web projects between Web servers. You can also duplicate a Web project on the same server under a new name.

After copying a Web project or group of Web projects, users who want to work on the new Web application must create Web projects for each one in a new or existing workspace on their client computer. For details about connecting a Web project to an existing Web project, see the Web Project Wizard.

If you are copying the Web project to a different Web server, you might be prompted for a login user name and password for that server.

Options

Source Web server

Master Web server

Select to copy a Web project located on the master Web server. Displays the URL for the master Web server.

Local Web server

Select to copy a Web project located on the local Web server. Displays the URL or directory path for the local Web files.

Note   Selecting the Local Web server option copies only the files that you have on your local machine and does not copy any Web project files that exist only on the master Web server.

In addition, changes may have been made to the master Web server since the last time you refreshed your local application. Such changes made to the master Web server will not be reflected on you local Web server. For more information, see Synchronizing Master and Local Files.

Destination Web server

Server name

Type a new URL or select a URL from the drop-down list. The Web project selected in Source Web will be copied to the URL you specify.

Note   If you use a proxy server, entering the number for the IP Address instead of the server name may generate an authentication error. For more information, see Troubleshooting.

Web project

Allows you to specify a name for the Web project on the destination Web.

Connect using SSL

Select only if the new Web application is to be copied using Secured Sockets Layer, a protocol that enables secure communications between a server and Microsoft^® Visual InterDev™ or a Web browser. By default, this is not selected.

Copy changed files only

Select to copy only files that have changed since the last time the Web project was copied. This option allows you to easily update an existing copy of Web application with changes. For more information, see Deploying and Maintaining Web Applications.

Add to an existing Web project

Select to copy the Web project as a subfolder to an existing destination Web project (specified in the Web project name box in the Destination Web area).

Note   If the Add to an Existing Web project option is selected, the files and folders of the Web project you are copying are merged into the destination Web project. The destination Web project must already exist. If it does not, Copy Project returns an error.

Copy child Webs

Select to copy all Web projects on the source Web server to the destination Web server if the Web project being copied is a root Web application.

Register server components

Select to have Visual InterDev install and register any server components included in the source Web project on the destination Web server.