SystemDrive on Vista

[manso]

Hi,

When installing on Vista the variable %SystemDrive% is not resolved to the drive. We use:

Get Folder Location WWW->WWWRoot into WWWROOTDIR

which becomes "%SystemDrive%\\Inetpub\\wwwroot" on Vista but not on XP/2003.

Do you have any solution to this?

Thanks,
- Manso

[MichaelNesmith]

Use the Extract Path command on the Windows path to obtain the drive.

[manso]

The problem is that WWW->WWWRoot returns %SystemDrive% embedded in the path.

The registry key

HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\\SOFTWARE\\Microsoft\\InetStp\\PathWWWRoot

is %SystemDrive%\\inetpub\\wwwroot on Vista and C:\\Inetpub\\wwwroot on pre-Vista versions and apparently InstallAware and/or MSI doesn't like that.

Is this something you can fix or look into? The workaround is a bit tricky as we can't work out the drive to do a string replacement.

Thanks,
- Manso[/b]

[neillans]

You shouldnt need to - simply run Extract Path on the variable that contains the result and it should expand it for you.

[manso]

I'm running the following:

Get Folder Location WWW->WWWRoot into WWWROOTDIR
Extract File Folder: WWWROOTDIR
MessageBox: Msg, $WWWROOTDIR$

And %SystemDrive%\\inetpub\\wwwroot is returned. Any other ideas?

Thanks,
Manso

[isf]

I'm having this problem too. Is there any solution available?
Thanks.

Regards,
paulo

[MichaelNesmith]

How about doing a substitution of the environment variable, using the Get Variable command?