Thanks for responses. 1. setting the SKIPCONFIGUREIIS property via an immediate CA (scheduled prior to ConfigureIIs of course) to simply skip IIS configuration when the target host already has the website installed would require us having some way to determine if the target host already has the website installed wouldn't it? Is there some wix syntax supporting that check? Also wouldn't doing this actually cause not only our AppPool and WebSite settings from not being applied but also all of our iis:WebVirtualDir and iis:WebApplication settings that we do want to recreate every time as we do remove those components during uninstall. 2. the addition of the ConfigureIfExists="no" option to our iis:WebSite element sounds promising since it sounds like it may prevent the activity that is traversing any of the child vdirs that someone may have added to the website, outside of what our installer creates, and resetting their appPool setting to whatever is defined for the iis:WebSite. Presumably setting this iis:WebSite attribute doesn't preclude processing of our iis:WebVirtualDir and iis:WebApplication settings that we do want to recreate every time as we do remove those components during uninstall.
-----Original Message----- From: Rob Mensching [mailto:r...@wixtoolset.org] Sent: Thursday, April 02, 2009 10:46 PM To: General discussion for Windows Installer XML toolset. Subject: Re: [WiX-users] We are getting some unexpected and undesirable behavior from iis:WebAppPool and iis:WebSite extensions, just checking to see if we are doing something wrong. Also, WebSite has a ConfigureIfExists property. AppPool though probably always sets its settings so Alex's suggestion below may be the nuke you need. Alex Cater wrote: > The condition for ConfigureIIs (the scheduling CA) is: > > NOT SKIPCONFIGUREIIS AND VersionNT > 400 > > You could set the SKIPCONFIGUREIIS property via an immediate CA (scheduled > prior to ConfigureIIs of course) to simply skip IIS configuration when the > target host already has the website installed. > > > -- > View this message in context: > http://n2.nabble.com/We-are-getting-some-unexpected-and-undesirable-behavior-from-iis%3AWebAppPool-and-iis%3AWebSite-extensions%2C-just-checking-to-see-if-we-are-doing-something-wrong.-tp2577603p2578018.html > Sent from the wix-users mailing list archive at Nabble.com. > > > ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ > _______________________________________________ > 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 ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ _______________________________________________ WiX-users mailing list WiX-users@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/wix-users
