You could try adding a custom action that adds (temporary) rows to the appropriate tables for the built-in actions that setup webservices. Bob called them "semi-custom actions". (http://www.joyofsetup.com/2007/07/01/semi-custom-actions/)
Just make sure that you save and/or compute somehow the information you need to recreate those rows for repairs, upgrades, and removals, since you may not have the same command-line... -----Original Message----- From: Adam Burton [mailto:adz...@googlemail.com] Sent: Wednesday, May 26, 2010 10:38 AM To: wix-users@lists.sourceforge.net Subject: [WiX-users] Advice 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 ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- -- _______________________________________________ WiX-users mailing list WiX-users@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/wix-users ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ _______________________________________________ WiX-users mailing list WiX-users@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/wix-users
