Does * signify [all unassigned]?
On 14 June 2013 17:23, Rob Mensching <r...@robmensching.com> wrote:
> Yeah, IIS 7 really made life difficult requiring elevation to even query
> web site configuration. Makes manipulating IIS correctly very, very
> challenging.****
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> *From:* Neil Sleightholm [mailto:n...@x2systems.com]
> *Sent:* Friday, June 14, 2013 12:14 AM
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> *To:* Windows Installer XML toolset developer mailing list
> *Subject:* Re: [WiX-devs] Wix IIS Extension: New feature discussion****
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> If anyone is looking at this code there is also a defect 2975 which means
> that the site id of * doesn't work for IIS 7.0/7.5 – it would be good to
> get this fixed as well.****
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> Neil****
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> "8*" is interesting but I wonder if "80+" might be clearer? I'm open to
> suggestions.****
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> ****
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> There isn't anything like this now. Most of the work to find the next free
> port will have to be in the native CustomAction code since it will have to
> scan the machine. However, doing all the parsing of the string format (i.e.
> "8*" or "80+" or "80-") in the extension would be ideal and maybe just set
> an attribute to say, "search for next free port".****
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> ****
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> One of the more challenging problems will be to remember which port was
> automatically picked so that on uninstall the correct website is removed.
> That's possibly the hardest part of this feature.****
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> On Mon, Jun 10, 2013 at 3:52 AM, Blair Murri <os...@live.com> wrote:****
>
> For one of my clients we did this, and discovered that it wasn't as
> straightforward as we had hoped (just because a port doesn't have an active
> current listener doesn't mean it isn't "taken"). Alas, that client owns the
> implementation we came up with so I don't have a starting point I could
> share but I could contribute to the discussion (and possibly even to the
> final solution).
>
> Is this something your willing to fund to contribute to the community?
>
> Blair
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> Date: Sun, 9 Jun 2013 11:34:45 +1000
> From: threesixtydegreesoluti...@gmail.com
> To: wix-devs@lists.sourceforge.net
> Subject: [WiX-devs] Wix IIS Extension: New feature discussion ****
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> Hi All, ****
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> @robmen suggested I email this group regarding another feature (that I
> think is missing/would be very useful) ****
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> My concept is that I should be able to tell Wix to install the website
> component on the next available 8* port (i.e. if 80 is used, try 81, of 81
> used goto 82 etc)****
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> Has anyone else noticed the lack of this functionality.****
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> How does everyone feel about this idea?****
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> Had anyone out there already written a custom task that does this that we
> could use as a starting point to implement natively in the IIS Extension?*
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> Regards,****
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> Andrew****
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> @agrayz****
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> @ 360DegSolutions****
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