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boggle · ‎Sep 23, 2011

I should have replied a long time ago. Yes, I did eventually get it working using the method I outlined at the link above, with the changes you suggested around LAAW_PARAMETERS.nLaunchResult - thanks heaps for that, not having had the pleasure of windows dev before it hadn't occurred to me. I should also say, if anyone has any further feedback on my noob solution, please do pass it on!

boggle · ‎May 30, 2011

Hi there I have a client requirement to set the name of an installed website from the UI. The name should also correspond to the location of the site files. e.g. User enters "MySiteName" as the site name -> site content is installed to inetpub\wwwroot\MySiteName I'm setting the value from the UI into a property SITE_NAME I'm using this property in the InstallShield IIS web site UI, as [SITE_NAME] in the "Name" field. When I deploy the site, the site name DOES get set correctly. However, the problem arises when I try to set the Content Source Path of the site. I try to set the location to be [IISROOTFOLDER][SITE_NAME], but instead of being installed to inetpub\wwwroot\MySiteName, it's actually installed to inetpub\wwwroot\[SITE_NAME] It's resolving the IISROOTFOLDER, why not my SITE_NAME prop? How do I get the property to be resolved in the Content Source Path field? Is it even possible, or can it only be done through script using appcmd or something like that? I'm using InstallShield 2011 Premier

boggle · ‎May 30, 2011

More trial and error. I think I was scheduling it incorrectly before. More info in my blog post. Seriously, it wouldn't hurt to have a FAQ about this!

boggle · ‎May 29, 2011

Can anyone who has EVER set an HTTPS binding via InstallShield please just leave me a brief note saying how YOU do it? Perhaps appcmd is not even the way to go. Are you using vbscript? Some other way? Any suggestions at all would be gratefully received. Also, if anyone has any suggestions for a more active forum, that would be great too

boggle · ‎Apr 25, 2011

My Basic MSI package installs a Windows service. It installs and runs correctly. When I try to UNINSTALL it on Win2K8 (32-bit), however, it doesn't uninstall. The uninstaller finishes successfully, and the app is removed from the appwiz.cpl. The MSI log contains no helpful error messages, in fact has no reference to the service name at all. Action start 10:44:33: UnpublishFeatures. Action ended 10:44:33: UnpublishFeatures. Return value 1. Action start 10:44:33: StopServices. Action ended 10:44:33: StopServices. Return value 1. Action start 10:44:33: DeleteServices. Action ended 10:44:33: DeleteServices. Return value 1. Action start 10:44:33: UnregisterComPlus. Action ended 10:44:33: UnregisterComPlus. Return value 0. Bafflingly though, the service uninstalls fine on a Win2K8 (64-bit) machine. I'm at my wit's end, have spent hours and hours on this, changing Uninstall Delete/Start/Stop events, component guids, permissions etc. Does anyone have a suggestion on how to debug this?

boggle · ‎Mar 10, 2011

Hi mdbritt Sorry to reopen an old thread, but I'm having issues with IIS 7 support. No problem creating app pools and virtual directories etc with Installshield 2011, but I need some way of adding other properties e.g. ssl port bindings, requiressl etc, and I figure the IIS7 part of your script above should help me out. My question is: what did you have to do in terms of your custom action to get this to work? When did you schedule the action in your execute sequence? Did you have to run it deferred in system context? Have you run this script in Win2K8 before? did you have any problems getting the output of appcmd list to write to the text file? Thanks in advance for any help you can provide!

boggle · ‎Mar 10, 2011

I should mention that I've tried running the CA that calls appcmd as "Immediate" and "Deferred Execution in system context", neither work, neither give any error message. I've tried to install to Win2K8 (32-bit) and Win2K8 R2 (64-bit). Neither work! Any pros out there who can give me a hand? I've been stalled on this for a few weeks now, and I can't help but think that I must be missing something, that it shouldn't be this hard. Please help? Thanks in advance

boggle · ‎Mar 07, 2011

Update: I tried using appcmd.exe from a LaunchAppAndWait in a custom action run After ISIISInstall. appcmd set site "sitename" /bindings:http/*:80:,https/*:443: Printing out the command line in the CA before attempting to run it, it all looks good. The return code from LaunchAppAndWait is 0, but the binding doesn't get set 😞 If I copy the command to a dos prompt, it runs fine, and the binding IS created. Does anyone know why this isn't working from the CA? This is really quite frustrating, it's such a simple process in our current installer, and we invested time and money to move to InstallShield because it seemed to have better IIS support! Any help would be much appreciated, although judging by the number of views and lack of replies, it doesn't seem to be something many people have struggled with 😕 Thanks in advance

boggle · ‎Mar 06, 2011

Anyone? Surely there are a bunch of other people who need to do this with their applications? I came up with another post today: http://community.flexerasoftware.com/showthread.php?p=461897 but this works only for IIS 6.0 whereas a number of our installations are IIS 7.0, so hoping for a more generic solution.

boggle · ‎Mar 02, 2011

Hi there How does one set up a binding for https in InstallShield? It seems to me that this would be a common requirement, so I'm probably just missing it somewhere. I've searched the help files and forum and only come up with one other post asking the same thing with no replies (http://community.installshield.com/showthread.php?t=190640&page=3) Thanks in advance for your help Dana

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Thanks, Oldbean

Website name and Content Source Path from property

Finally resolved!

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Windows service will not uninstall

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