Re: [WiX-users] is it a bug that iis:WebSite doesn't locate presence of existing website using just the Name attribute value versus port settings?

2009-04-08 Thread Thomas S. Trias
Robert, Add SiteId=* as an attribute to iis:WebSite. SiteId String Optional attribute to directly specify the site id of the WebSite. Use this to ensure all web sites in a web garden get the same site id. If a number is provided, the site id must be unique on all target machines. If * is

Re: [WiX-users] is it a bug that iis:WebSite doesn't locate presence of existing website using just the Name attribute value versus port settings?

2009-04-08 Thread Robert O'Brien
+ in case of a properties.wix declaration of a Default Web Site so that we have a way to do things against that well known iis7x site if/when we need to I'm guessing that we must use SiteId=0 in that case, vs SiteId=*, so that we always find use the site with name Default Web Site known to be

Re: [WiX-users] is it a bug that iis:WebSite doesn't locate presence of existing website using just the Name attribute value versus port settings?

2009-04-08 Thread Kiran Challa
Thanks Thomas...SiteId=* worked for us. This worked in version 3.4813... FYI... We were using v3.4805 before and when we tried to use SiteId=* we got the following errors... ConfigureIIs: Error 0x80070057: failed to parse record field: 3 as number: * ConfigureIIs: Error 0x80070057: Failed

Re: [WiX-users] is it a bug that iis:WebSite doesn't locate presence of existing website using just the Name attribute value versus port settings?

2009-04-08 Thread Thomas S. Trias
You are correct; Default Web Site is handled specially, and if you always want Site Id 0, that is what you should use. However, the effect of SiteId=* is not exactly as advertised in the documentation. candle and light generate a -1 in the Id field of the IIsWebSite record within the MSI if

[WiX-users] is it a bug that iis:WebSite doesn't locate presence of existing website using just the Name attribute value versus port settings?

2009-04-07 Thread Robert O'Brien
We have a service deliverable msi where optionally have some w08/iis70 Default Web Site vdir settings we want to apply and some Site1 Web Site and Site2 Web Site settings we want to apply (see relevant excerpt below). We need to allow for deployments where Site1 Web Site and Site2 Web Site