We have a continuous delivery process created using Jenkins, MSBuild, and Web Deploy. Things work beautifully when deploying to our development server, however, when I try to deploy a web deploy package using the *.deploy.cmd file on two newly configured servers the web.config changes defined in the parameters.xml file are not being applied. The rest of the deployment works great but I am seeing a message like this for every parameter that needs to change:
Verbose: Parameter entry 'config/1' could not be applied to '<path>\Package\PackageTmp\Web.config'. Deployment will continue with the original data. Details:
Cannot set a value on node type 'Element'.
Since the transforms for the exact same package work on deployments to one server and not to the new servers, this seems like a server configuration issue but I've gone through and checked everything against Microsoft's Web Deploy install instructions and it all looks fine. I wasn't the person who originally set up Web Deploy on the working folder so I don't know what they might have done differently. I suspect this is related to permissions but the few places I can think to check were the same on both servers.
I found other questions with this error message where it was an issue with the XPath in their parameters.xml file. I don't think this is my problem because I can deploy successfully to one of my servers but here's an example from my paramters.xml and SetParams.xml files for good measure:
parameters.xml
<parameter name="config">
<parameterEntry kind="XmlFile" scope="\\web.config$" match="//configuration/appSettings/add[@key='config']" />
</parameter>
*.SetParameters.xml
<parameters>
<setParameter name="config" value="<add key="config" value="testing" />" />
</parameters>
Does anyone know how to fix this or what kind of additional permissions I will need on my new servers?
