My Basic MSI project build an Install From The Web installer. in the release, I can give the url where the files are located in the URL for your files section of the Internet pane.
Ok, it works but it do not allows to manage a kind of miror between two http servers.
I would like to have a dialog that give me the choice between two http (like the language dialog) and dynamically redirect the download accordingly.
I don't have any idea on the way to deal with that. At this time, I have to manage two distinct releases : one for the first http site and one for the second... not really smart.
I don't think there's anything built in; I believe you can use the /um switch to setup.exe to specify the location (URL) of the MSI database for a Web release (it's documented that way for a Downloader build, anyway), so that might be one way to manage...
To have something built in, you (meaning "everyone") can vote for this as a feature request at www.installshield.com/feedback.
We have an InstallScript One-click install (actually developed in IS12 but applies here) that we give to our resellers. They edit the bootstrap.htm & setup.htm files to point to their own web server files, from which their own customers install. I have converted that One-Click installer to Basic MSI. I am testing on my own PC and can only get it to work if I hard-code my local webserver directory http://localhost/myapp in the "URL for your files" property. Can I leave the "URL for your files" property blank and edit the install.htm files created so they point to http://localhost/myapp?
I have several posts on this MSI One-Click install (in the IS12 forum) and opened incidents and still have not found any solutions. Please help!
Thanks to Tech Support for their help. The solution to my "Hard-coded URL" issue is to set your release's Web Type property to One Executable. It creates a single setup.cab and separate htm files.
