Microsoft KB Archive/167737

= FIX: Deploy to a Unix Server Via FTP Fails =

Article ID: 167737

Article Last Modified on 2/16/2005

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APPLIES TO


 * Microsoft Visual SourceSafe 5.0 Standard Edition

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This article was previously published under Q167737



SYMPTOMS
When you deploy files through FTP to a UNIX server, the files are incorrectly deployed to the parent directory and renamed to include the directory name. You do not receive an error message warning you that the files were incorrectly deployed.



CAUSE
This problem is caused by the way Visual SourceSafe 5.0 parses the UNIX FTP deploy path. SourceSafe uses the '\' character when deploying, such that ftp://ftp.microsoft.com/test is interpreted as ftp.microsoft.com\test. Under UNIX, the '\' character is a valid character for a filename, so UNIX concatenates the path names.



STATUS
Microsoft has confirmed this to be a bug in the Microsoft products listed at the beginning of this article. This bug has been corrected in Visual Studio 97 Service Pack 1.

For additional information about the Visual Studio 97 Service Pack 1, please see the following article in the Microsoft Knowledge Base:

170365 INFO: Visual Studio 97 Service Packs - What, Where, and Why



Steps to Reproduce Behavior
 Set up a Visual SourceSafe project so that it is a Web-based project. Select an FTP:// deploy path that goes to *any* UNIX server.  Deploy the project to the FTP:// location.

Assuming that you have a project $/Source/Web/Default.html and that the deploy was to /pub/web, you will see the following under UNIX: pub/web/Web\Default.html UNIX interprets the slash character so that the filename is actually Web\Default.html rather than putting a file called Default.html under the Web directory.

Note that Visual SourceSafe gives the "Deploying..." message on the files and everything appears to go as planned. You do not receive an error message. 

Additional query words: SP1

Keywords: kbbug kbfix kbvs97sp2fix KB167737

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