Re: [WiX-users] Creating Virtual Directories in c:\inetpub\wwwroot in WiX

2011-01-05 Thread Christopher Painter
ering Blog Have a hot tip, know a secret or read a really good thread that deserves attention? E-Mail Me --- On Wed, 1/5/11, Rob Mensching wrote: From: Rob Mensching Subject: Re: [WiX-users] Creating Virtual Directories in c:\inetpub\wwwroot in WiX To: chr...@deploymentengineering.com, &quo

Re: [WiX-users] Creating Virtual Directories in c:\inetpub\wwwroot in WiX

2011-01-05 Thread Rob Mensching
Author of Deployment Engineering Blog > Have a hot tip, know a secret or read a really good thread that deserves > attention? E-Mail Me > > > --- On Tue, 1/4/11, Rob Mensching wrote: > > > From: Rob Mensching > > Subject: Re: [WiX-users] Creating Virtual

Re: [WiX-users] Creating Virtual Directories in c:\inetpub\wwwroot in WiX

2011-01-04 Thread Christopher Painter
s] Creating Virtual Directories in c:\inetpub\wwwroot > in WiX > To: "General discussion for Windows Installer XML toolset." > > Date: Tuesday, January 4, 2011, 10:44 AM > There isn't a custom action in the > WiX toolset that does this today. It'd > be cool

Re: [WiX-users] Creating Virtual Directories in c:\inetpub\wwwroot in WiX

2011-01-04 Thread Rob Mensching
There isn't a custom action in the WiX toolset that does this today. It'd be cool if someone wanted to contribute it. > I did spend some time over the last week experimenting with the WiX 3.5 IIS > configuration feature. It looks promising but I could NOT figure out how > to > get it to set an

Re: [WiX-users] Creating Virtual Directories in c:\inetpub\wwwroot in WiX

2011-01-03 Thread Michael Urman
For what little it's worth, InstallShield 11 did not support for Vista, much less the version of IIS included with Vista, because its predates Vista. If that's the only blocking factor, you may want to consider a version of InstallShield that shipped after 2005. If the other factors are more releva

Re: [WiX-users] Creating Virtual Directories in c:\inetpub\wwwroot in WiX

2011-01-03 Thread InvaderZim
Christopher Painter wrote: > > InstallShield's custom action sets a property but there's no reason you > have to use that property. You can write your own custom action setting > your own property then tell the IIS custom actions to use that property > instead. > > All said and done, InstallS

Re: [WiX-users] Creating Virtual Directories in c:\inetpub\wwwroot in WiX

2011-01-03 Thread Christopher Painter
log Have a hot tip, know a secret or read a really good thread that deserves attention? E-Mail Me --- On Mon, 1/3/11, InvaderZim wrote: > From: InvaderZim > Subject: Re: [WiX-users] Creating Virtual Directories in c:\inetpub\wwwroot > in WiX > To: wix-users@lists.sourceforge.net

Re: [WiX-users] Creating Virtual Directories in c:\inetpub\wwwroot in WiX

2011-01-03 Thread InvaderZim
I'm having this exact issue and it's now 2010! I found that I can get the root of the web tree into a property like this: but (and there's always a but): on Vista, Microsoft apparently screwed up this registry entry. It now contains %SystemDrive%\inetpub\wwwroot but the enviro