Promoting content in websites

Once our three-tier website scheme is set up, the next step is to configure the content promotion method. This recipe shows how to promote content between the various environments.

Getting ready

This recipe assumes the development/staging/production website configuration created in the prior recipe.

How to do it...

Carry out the following steps to promote content in websites:

1. Copy the content between the web servers:

   Copy-Item -Path \\web1\wwwDev -Destination \\web2\wwwDev -Verbose -Recurse -Force 

2. Copy the files from development to staging:

   Invoke-Command -ComputerName web1, web2 -ScriptBlock {
       Copy-Item -Path C:\inetpub\wwwDev -Destination C:\inetpub\wwwStage -Verbose -Force -Recurse
   } 

3. Copy files from staging to production:

   Invoke-Command -ComputerName web1, web2 -ScriptBlock {
       Copy-Item -Path C:\inetpub\wwwStage -Destination C:\inetpub\wwwRoot -Verbose -Force -Recurse
   } 

How it works...

The first step copies files between the web servers in order to synchronize...