Creating IIS applications changes the Web Site root path!

[Adam]

Just wondering if anyone ever found a fix for this? My installer is doing exactly the same. I install between 1 and 3 websites based on the features selected and it looks like whichever is the last Virtual Directory to be created, updates "Default Web Site" and points it's physical path to $TARGETDIR$ rather than the default \inetpub\wwwroot. This is causing me problems as it means 2/3 websites do not work.

Cheers
Adam

[FrancescoT]

Dear Adam,

can you please verify if the following topic helps you?
http://www.installaware.com/forum/viewtopic.php?f=2&t=8508&hilit=+default+apppool

If your issue can reproduced as reported with the above topic, it is also described a possible workaround.
The issue reported with the above topic as been added to our fix list.

Let me know if this helps you.

Regards.

[Adam]

Hi Francisco

While this is another problem, I can get around this problem by those exact methods for now.

My problem is that adding a Virtual Directory seems to change the root path for "Default Web Site" from c:\inetpub\wwwroot to the $TARGETDIR$ where the files for my virtual directory is kept. Let me know if you need some screenshots / test project if I'm not making any sense.

Cheers
Adam

[FrancescoT]

Dear Adam,

If you could post me a very simple project ... It might help me to speed any test.

Regards.

[Adam]

Hi Francisco

I created a test project but everything worked as expected. After doing some debugging, I realised that the problem is potentially from creating one website and then Copy and Pasting it, then modifying it to another.

I re-entered the Create Virtual Folder's and it all worked as expected.

Cheers
Adam

[FrancescoT]

Happy that you solved !

[lbertoldi]

I am happy for Adam, but it didn't work for me.
I need to create two virtual folders, and to work around the "ASPNET version bug" I had to split the vdir creation, so I have FOUR create vdir instructions (two for IIS6 and two for IIS7). This is how I did it.

vdir creation

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I thought I copied/pasted the instructions, as Adam said, so I deleted them and re-created them by hand, but I still have the problem.
This is the end result

end result

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As you can see, the default website path has been changed to the targetdir.
This is really annoying: we chose IA because it could handle IIS7 and application pool creation, but turns out it does it in a very unreliable way (a few years after IIS7 has been released!).
Any chance you have a new workaround? I am running out of ideas...

[FrancescoT]

Let me see.

Regards

[lbertoldi]

News?
Thanks

[FrancescoT]

Dear User,

Unfortunately I do not have any news.

Could you please send me a very simple project that replicate the issue?

Regards

[lbertoldi]

Did you try the setup I described in my email?
That's the only part of my script that deals with vdir creation. You should try to use variables for most of the params, and the if-then clause to handle the IA ASPNET bug.
Please let me know.

[FrancescoT]

Dear User,

I haven't received any email ... did you send it to: support@installaware.com?

Regards

[lbertoldi]

Sorry, I meant "previous post" not "email".
In the meantime I will try to strip down my setup, but it's no easy task.

[FrancescoT]

... meantime, have you tried to see what happens using the new NX version (of course, you can use the trial)?

Regards

[lbertoldi]

I can give it a try, but does this mean that with the new NX release you are abandoning 2012 customers???
I mean, don't you support at least the previous version?