Thanks for your reply, John.
Then what's the purpose of the first piece of code snip if they don't create
the folder?
For example, I found two pieces of code to create a web application in IIS, one
creates the folders and the other create the virtual directory. BTW, do we need
to create the directory first in order to create a web site?
<Directory Id="TARGETDIR" Name="SourceDir">
<Directory Id="IISMain" Name="Inetpub">
<Directory Id="WWWMain" Name="wwwroot">
<Directory Id="SFSAEWS" Name="SFS.Assessment.WebService">
<Directory Id="SFSAEWSBIN" Name="bin" />
<Directory Id="SFSAEWSREF" Name="ReferenceData" />
</Directory>
</Directory>
</Directory>
<DirectoryRef Id="TARGETDIR">
<Component Id='SFSAEAppPoolComp'
Guid='B7D1E298-5A98-11DE-937D-1DD455D89593' >
<iis:WebAppPool Id='SFSAEAppPool'
Name='Assessment Engine AppPool'>
</iis:WebAppPool>
</Component>
<Component Id="CreateVirDirs_"
Guid="71D67525-D378-4169-AAF0-71C4B4D87D8B">
<!-- Alias: the URL-relative name of the virtual directory;
Directory: the ID of the physical directory -->
<iis:WebVirtualDir Id="SFSAssessmentWebServiceVirtualDir"
Alias="SFS.Assessment.WebService"
Directory="SFSAEWS"
WebSite="DefaultWebSite"
DirProperties="WebDirAnonAndNT">
<iis:WebApplication
Id="SFSAssessmentWebServiceWebApplication" Name="SFS.Assessment.WebService"
WebAppPool="SFSAEAppPool">
-----Original Message-----
From: John Ludlow [mailto:john.ludlow...@gmail.com]
Sent: Wednesday, June 24, 2009 10:06 AM
To: General discussion for Windows Installer XML toolset.
Subject: Re: [WiX-users] About <Directory>, what's the difference?
The difference is <CreateFolder/>
What's going on here is that MSI will never create a directory if
there are no files to be installed there - unless you add the
directory to the CreateFolders table by adding <CreateFolder/> under a
component in that directory. Yes, that's right you need a component
per empty folder so that MSI can use that to decide *when* the folder
should be created - what features it belongs to, when to remove it,
and so on.
HTH
John
2009/6/24 Jirong Hu <jirong...@gov.ab.ca>:
> I tried the following, the last four directories are not created, why?
>
> <!-- Temp folders -->
> <Directory Id="Root" Name="Root">
> <Directory Id="Temp" Name="Temp">
> <Directory Id="Exceptions" Name="Except"
> LongName="SFS Exceptions Trace Output">
> <Component Id="TempFolderExcept"
> Guid="0A809D08-5518-11DE-8B06-BA3956D89593">
> <CreateFolder
> Directory="Exceptions"/>
> </Component>
> <Directory Id="ExCONNX" Name="CONNX">
> <Component
> Id="TempFolderCONNX" Guid="BFAC81A5-5165-45e5-AA6E-0800331C464C">
> <CreateFolder/>
> </Component>
> </Directory>
> <Directory Id="ExBridge" Name="Bridge">
> <Component
> Id="TempFolderBridge" Guid="D1F1514A-375D-4d70-803E-50C151A65011">
> <CreateFolder/>
> </Component>
> </Directory>
> <Directory Id="TempWebServices"
> Name="SFSWebSe" LongName="SFSWebServices"/>
> <Directory Id="TempInternal"
> Name="Internal"/>
> <Directory Id="TempStudent"
> Name="Student"/>
> <Directory Id="TempInstitution"
> Name="Institut" LongName="Institution"/>
> </Directory>
> </Directory>
> </Directory>
>
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Jirong Hu [mailto:jirong...@gov.ab.ca]
> Sent: Wednesday, June 24, 2009 9:41 AM
> To: 'General discussion for Windows Installer XML toolset.'
> Subject: [WiX-users] About <Directory>, what's the difference?
>
> Hi
>
> Both of these two methods will create directories, what's the difference?
>
> -------------------------------
> <Directory Id="WebRoots" Name="WebRoots">
> <Directory Id="WebServices" Name="SFSWebSe"
> LongName="SFSWebServices"/>
> <Directory Id="Internal" Name="Internal"/>
> <Directory Id="Student" Name="Student"/>
> <Directory Id="Institution" Name="Institut"
> LongName="Institution"/>
> </Directory>
> --------------------------------
>
> ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
> <Directory Id="ExBridge" Name="Bridge">
> <Component Id="TempFolderBridge"
> Guid="D1F1514A-375D-4d70-803E-50C151A65011">
> <CreateFolder/>
> </Component>
> </Directory>
> ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
>
> Thanks
> Jirong Hu
> Build Master
> 780-644-5488
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