Microsoft KB Archive/197230

= How To Deploy Visual SourceSafe Across a Proxy Server =

Article ID: 197230

Article Last Modified on 7/1/2004

-

APPLIES TO


 * Microsoft Visual SourceSafe 5.0 Standard Edition
 * Microsoft Visual SourceSafe 6.0 Standard Edition

-



This article was previously published under Q197230



SUMMARY
This article describes how to set up deploying from Visual SourceSafe through a firewall.



MORE INFORMATION
When setting up a Web project that needs to be deployed outside of your firewall, there are two things that have to be set up. First of all you need to have a Web project in order to deploy the project. In order to set a project as a Web project, please follow the instructions in the following article in the Microsoft Knowledge Base:

194826 How To Designate a Visual SourceSafe project as a Web Project

In the SourceSafe Administrator, under the Tools menu, select Options. Click the Web Tab. This tab sets up the settings for deploying a Web project to a remote server that is located outside the firewall.

The setting, "Proxy for deploying over ftp:," expects the address of the proxy server that is going to be deployed through. The setting may have to be entered as an IP address instead of the DNS (Domain Name System) name for it to work correctly. This setting, depending on your internal network, may require you to enter the protocol as well, for example:

ftp://123.45.67.123

When deploying through a FTP proxy, port 21 is used.

For example, if ftp://123.45.67.123:27 is the proxy server address, port 21 will be used instead of the specified port 27.

