Hi,
I have a project that installs a web service with some XML files. Currently IIS
is not configured by WiX, so for the most part it just dumps the files in a
specified location and fixes some path details in its web.config. One of the
requirements that has now surfaced is for the web service to exist multiple
times with different configurations, more than likely on the same server. As
such I would like to add the option of installing the web service multiple
times, but I do not have a specified number of times. The directory structure
looks something like below.
C:\MyService
\WebService
\bin
service.asmx
web.config
\XmlFiles
files.xml
....
Currently we install it then copy paste the webservice directory however many
times required (the XmlFiles directory does not need to be unique per
service).
The only options I see are to have a custom action copy the directory based on
properties that could be passed to the installer.
The another method is a multiple instance installer, which from what I gather
requires transformations, but I could only see how to do this with knowing
upfront how many instances you need.
Alternatively on the off chance someone knows, the only thing that changes
between these copies of the web service directory is the contents of the
web.config, so is it possible to point multiple IIS vdirs/websites at a single
directory and get each one to use a different web.config?
Anyone have better ideas or better reading material on multiple instance
installers (also bare in mind that in the future I would like to persuade my
boss to let the installer configure some of the IIS bits, but not a priority at
the moment)?
Thanks in advanced,
Adam
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