Features and Benefits

Know Exactly Which Files to Publish

FirePublish maintains a list of all files that are updated within your version control repository, but have not yet been published to the production server. Use this list to coordinate which files should go live, and which files need additional development and review. When the files are ready, they can be published to the production server with one click. You'll never need to search for files by their last-modified date again!

In addition, FirePublish has built-in grouping of files. Use this feature to group sets of files that need to go live at the same time so that you never miss a file when the code is ready to be published.

Audit Trails for Any Changes to Production

With FirePublish, each file that is published is accessible in an audit report with the list of files, along with the person who made the publish, and the date the publish was made. There is now full accountability for all code on your production environments.

Works With Your Current Environment

FirePublish works with your existing network architecture and coding languages. Simply install FirePublish to the same server your Subversion repository is on, and you're up and running the same day. No need to change the way your developers are committing files, or the protocols used to connect to your servers. FirePublish can be configured to suit a variety of environments.

Limit Access to your Production Environments

Using FirePublish allows you to lock down your production environments to only allow authorized users to publish new code. This is all done without giving the any developers the username and password information to the server itself. FirePublish handles the entire process.

Publish to Multiple Locations at Once

With FirePublish, you can configure multiple production servers to publish to if you have a load-balancing environment. When a file is selected for publishing, FirePublish simultaneously connects to each production server, and moves the files to the correct folders.

In addition to multiple production environments, FirePublish can also be configured to publish to multiple folders. For example, if you have an environment where all HTML and images go to one folder, but all compiled code needs to go to a different folder, FirePublish can be configured to automatically handle that workflow.

Publish Files Quickly

Using the FirePublish Remote Transfer Agent, files are published directly from the test environment to the production environment. Typically those environments have a high-speed connection between them, without the need to go out on the public internet. Therefore, when you publish large files, such as PDFs or videos, they will transfer to the production environment much faster than if you sent them via FTP from your local desktop.

Keep Everyone Up-To-Date with RSS

Everytime a new set of files is published to your production environment, information about those changes is posted to an RSS feed. Use this feature to keep stakeholders up-to-date with all changes made to the website.