>> Any help/reference that I missed to check? Just open your MSI package with Orca and you'll see the ConfigureIIs custom action is conditioned with SKIPCONFIGUREIIS property. :-) Also, this archive must have had related threads.
-- Yan -----Original Message----- From: Benjamin Podszun [mailto:benjamin.pods...@gmail.com] Sent: Wednesday, September 30, 2009 10:09 AM To: General discussion for Windows Installer XML toolset. Subject: Re: [WiX-users] Installing without IIS in spite ofoptionalwebapplication component Chad, Yan: Thanks a lot! I do wonder how I could've found this myself though: Any help/reference that I missed to check? Or is this knowledge that you can only get by looking at the source? Regards, Ben On Tue, Sep 29, 2009 at 9:08 PM, Yan Sklyarenko <y...@sitecore.net> wrote: > You should set SKIPCONFIGUREIIS property to 1 in order to skip IIS > configuration steps. Thus, when your "IIS-related" feature is not selected > by user, set the SKIPCONFIGUREIIS property to 1. This will ignore any > IIS-related elements in your code. > > Hope this helps. > > -- Yan > > ________________________________ > > From: Chad Petersen [mailto:chad.peter...@harlandfs.com] > Sent: Tue 9/29/2009 20:09 > To: General discussion for Windows Installer XML toolset. > Subject: Re: [WiX-users] Installing without IIS in spite of > optionalwebapplication component > > > > I ran into the same issue with our installer. If you include an IIS > element in the installer it always seems to want to configure it. > > They way I got around it was to write a VBS script that cracks open the > MSI database after it is built and modifies the "ConfigureIIS" action to > be Conditioned to only happen when the WebRole feature is installed. > > Works like a charm and has for several years now (same thing happened in > WiX 2.0 as well). I call it "ModifyExecuteSequence.vbs and it is called > from the overall build script so I don't run it manually each time. > > Here's the code I use > > Option Explicit > > ' Set up the initial variables, which dictate what action to change, and > which column to change > Dim strColumn, strNewValue, strAction > strAction = "ConfigureIIs" > strColumn = "Condition" > strNewValue = "(&WebRole=3) OR (&WebRole=2)" > > ' Create the Windows Installer object > Dim objInstaller > Set objInstaller = WScript.CreateObject("WindowsInstaller.Installer") > > ' Create the Database object from the filename passed in as our > parameter > Dim strPackagePath, objDatabase > strPackagePath = WScript.Arguments(0) > Set objDatabase = objInstaller.OpenDatabase(strPackagePath, 1) > > ' Setup the query that will access the database > Dim strQuery > strQuery = "SELECT " & strColumn & " FROM InstallExecuteSequence WHERE > Action='" & strAction & "'" > > WScript.Echo strQuery > > ' open up a view to the database, and execute the query > Dim objView > Set objView = objDatabase.OpenView(strQuery) > objView.Execute > > ' we're assuming that the database only returns one row, and that's the > row we need > Dim objRecord > Set objRecord = objView.Fetch > > ' make sure that something was returned from the database > If Not (objRecord Is Nothing) Then > > Dim strCell > strCell = objRecord.StringData(1) > > WScript.Echo("Existing cell: " & strCell) > WScript.Echo("New value: " & strNewValue) > > ' modify the cell > objRecord.StringData(1) = strNewValue > objView.Modify 2, objRecord > > Else > > WScript.Echo("Nothing found!") > > End If > > ' close the view and commit the change to the database > objView.Close > objDatabase.Commit > > > > -----Original Message----- > From: Benjamin Podszun [mailto:benjamin.pods...@gmail.com] > Sent: Tuesday, September 29, 2009 8:53 AM > To: WiX-users@lists.sourceforge.net > Subject: [WiX-users] Installing without IIS in spite of optional > webapplication component > > Hi there. > > I'm trying to create an installer that is divided into 3 features: > "Framework", "Client", "Server". The first one is mandatory (and > invisible) > the latter two can be combined or not according to the users choice. > "Server" contains a web application among others, like this: > > <iis:WebSite Id='SomeWebSite' Description='A nice description' > Directory='INSTALLLOCATION'> > <iis:WebAddress Id="AllUnassigned" Port="80" /> > <iis:WebVirtualDir Id="SomeWebApp" Alias="SomethingHere" > Directory="INSTALLLOCATION"> > <iis:WebApplication Id="SomeWebApp" Name="SomeName" /> > <iis:WebDirProperties Id="SomeDirProps" > DefaultDocuments="Some.asmx" > /> > </iis:WebVirtualDir> > </iis:WebSite> > > This is wrapped in a component, which is is componentref'd by the > "Server" > feature. > > If I try to install on a machine without IIS and deselect everything but > "Client" my installation dies with a fatal error. The progress dialog is > at > "Starting IIS Metabase Transaction" and a message box shows "Cannot > connect > to the Internet Information Server. (-2147221164 <lotsofspaces>)". > > Any help or pointers how to solve this would be appreciated. > > Thanks in advance, > Ben > ------------------------------------------------------------------------ > ------ > Come build with us! The BlackBerry® Developer Conference in SF, CA > is the only developer event you need to attend this year. Jumpstart your > developing skills, take BlackBerry mobile applications to market and > stay > ahead of the curve. Join us from November 9-12, 2009. Register > now! > http://p.sf.net/sfu/devconf > _______________________________________________ > WiX-users mailing list > WiX-users@lists.sourceforge.net > https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/wix-users > > > > > ------------------------------------------------------------------------ ------ > Come build with us! The BlackBerry® Developer Conference in SF, CA > is the only developer event you need to attend this year. 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