How do you deploy to a shared server such as Hostek

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Hello, all. I am new to Coldbox and was looking at it for a possible project. I downloaded CommandBox and put it on my c: drive in the root. C:\commandbox. Ran box, installed coldbox-cli, etc. and followed the tutorial here (which needs a correction or two). I was doing from a folder here: V:\Documents\CFSites\RestoModTracker\DeltaCMS. It works fine on my PC.

So I wanted to see how it would work in my Hostek hosted environment. I looked for information on how to deploy to a hosted environment and was surprised that, with all this documentation, there is no specific deployment process. So I just pushed the the above folder to the server http root.

I get an error:

Security: The requested template has been denied access to D:/home/cardinalhs.net/wwwroot/coldbox/system/web/context/ExceptionBean.cfc.

The following is the internal exception message: access denied (“java.io.FilePermission” “D:/home/cardinalhs.net/wwwroot/coldbox/system/web/context/ExceptionBean.cfc” “read”)

I am asking the what version of Java they are running but this seems to be a different issue.

Is there a reason there is no documentation, no video, not much of anything on how to deploy an app to a shared hosting environment that already has CF running on it? Thanks.

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I would reach out to your server host and ask them to look into the permissions.

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Thank for the quick response. So is this how you deploy? You just copy the whole folder to the server? I will reach out to them and see about permissions.

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Are you using the Hostek Shared CF Hosting? Not sure if you got this resolved yet or not. I have a couple CF VPS servers and I run into this issue. In my case its a matter of resetting inheritable permissions for all files & folders in the wwwroot folder. ( right click wwwroot folder > properties > Security (tab) > Advanced > Check box to “Replace all …” > Apply ). If you are using the Shared Hosting, You might be able to get this done through the file manager however I have not ever done it that way.

If you are interested in deployment process I would be happy to share the basics of how i deploy on my servers, both CF VPS with Hostek and Lucee servers from elsewhere.

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In the past when Ortus deployed to VPS, we used a Jenkins job that copied the code over via sFTP. Nowadays, we still use VPS, but to run our Docker Swarm and deployments are done in our Gitlab pipelines by building a new docker image, pushing it to our docker registry, and issuing some Docker CLI commands to update that service on the swarm. The zero-downtime rolling deploy then takes care of itself via the magic of Docker Swarm.