Setting the SKIPCONFIGUREIIS property via an immediate CA (scheduled prior to ConfigureIIs of course) to simply skip IIS configuration when the target host already has the website installed would require us having some way to determine if the target host already has the website installed wouldn't it?
Yes Is there some wix syntax supporting that check? No, you would need to write a CA to query the IIS metabase. Also wouldn't doing this actually cause not only our AppPool and WebSite settings from not being applied but also all of our iis:WebVirtualDir and iis:WebApplication settings that we do want to recreate every time as we do remove those components during uninstall. I'm afraid so, as Rob pointed out, it's a nuke. The addition of the ConfigureIfExists="no" option to our iis:WebSite element sounds promising since it sounds like it may prevent the activity that is traversing any of the child vdirs that someone may have added to the website, outside of what our installer creates, and resetting their appPool setting to whatever is defined for the iis:WebSite. I wouldn't be so sure. It'll certainly bail out early and skip some configuration (AutoStart, ConnectionTimeout etc and perhaps a select set of child elements e.g. SSL certificates and HTTP headers) but all bets are off without poking about in the source first. IMO, the behavior is not entirely unsurprising but is clearly undesirable for your requirements. Perhaps an alternate approach to the aforementioned nuke, once the exact behaviour of the extension source has been understood, is to insert temporary rows into specific IIs tables via immediate CAs that are conditionalised on the state of the box i.e. the presence/absence of certain items. This should allow you to dynamically adjust the install/uninstall behaviour of your IIs configuration process. -- View this message in context: http://n2.nabble.com/We-are-getting-some-unexpected-and-undesirable-behavior-from-iis%3AWebAppPool-and-iis%3AWebSite-extensions%2C-just-checking-to-see-if-we-are-doing-something-wrong.-tp2577603p2583759.html Sent from the wix-users mailing list archive at Nabble.com. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ _______________________________________________ WiX-users mailing list WiX-users@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/wix-users
