Packaging a Site
When you package a site, you save your applications and settings in a single package file.
To package a site
Click Start, point to Programs, point to Microsoft Commerce Server 2000, and then click Commerce Server Site Packager.
In the Welcome to Commerce Server Site Packager dialog box, select the Package an existing site option, and then click Next.
In the Package Site dialog box, do the following:
Use this To do this Site to package Select the site you want to package from the list of available sites. Package file to create Type the name of the package file you are creating. Click Browse.
In the Save As dialog box, navigate to the folder where you want to create the package, provide the file name, and then click Save. When you are returned to the Commerce Site Packager screen, click OK.
In the Profiling System dialog box, do the following:
Use this To do this Schema definition scripts Specify the schema definition scripts you want to include in the package. Click Browse to specify the location of these scripts. Site Packager uses a default schema definition script. If you modify the UserObject table or other profile schema definitions, you must use SQL Server Enterprise Manager to generate a script to use here. For more information, see Packing Extended Profile Schema.
Data population scripts Specify the data population scripts you want to include in the package. Click Browse to specify the location of these scripts. Click OK.
In the Packing is complete! dialog box, to review the list of events in the Site Packager log file, click View Log File.
To close Site Packager, click Finish.
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Notes
If you package a Commerce Server application whose IIS virtual directory contains child IIS applications, Site Packager will package the folders and files of the child applications. If you do not want the folders and files of the child applications, you will have to delete them after you unpack the parent Commerce Server application.
Site Packager does not package files in child virtual directories of the IIS application. If you need to package files in child virtual directories, move the folders and files to child physical folders of the root folder of the IIS application before packaging your site.
Before you can package a site that has applications (for example, Retail and RetailBusinessDesk) on separate Web servers, you must add one of the Web servers to the other application. For example, if Retail is installed on Computer A and RetailBizDesk is on Computer B, you can run Site Packager on Computer B to add it as a Web server for Retail. Then you can package the site from Computer B. (Conversely, you could add Computer A to RetailBizDesk, and package the site there.) For more information, see Adding a Web Server to an Application.