Setting Installation Options For A Web Installation - Symantec WINDOWS INSTALLER EDITOR 8.0 Reference

Setting Installation Options for a Web Installation

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4. Click New and select New Web Folder.
5. Enter a name for the directory and click OK.
6. Select the new directory and click Details.
The details dialog box appears with several tabs.
7. Complete the tabs on the details dialog box. These tabs correspond to options on
the properties dialog box in IIS, version 5.0.
For information on these tabs, see the IIS help. Also see
Dialog on page 255.
See also:
About Web Installations
An important part of setting up a Web installation is specifying the installation options
that will be available to the end user at run time. To do so, use the Web Site UI tab,
which appears on the details dialog box for Web sites and top-level virtual directories. If
the virtual directory is under a Web site, then see
Virtual Directory on page 253.
You set options for each Web site or virtual directory you have added on the Web Files
page. Setting installation options adds Web (IIS) dialog boxes to the installation. If you
omit the procedure below, no Web dialog boxes appear to the end user, and the
installation tries to apply the defaults for all items.
Warning
Do not edit the Web (IIS) dialog boxes, except to change their order (as a group) in the
installation sequence. Editing the Web dialog boxes might cause unexpected,
undesirable behavior, including damage to the installation. Also, any operation within
this product that affects the installation's user interface will regenerate the Web dialog
boxes, therefore, any changes you make to them will be lost.
To set installation options
1. Select Installation Expert > Web Files page.
2. In the lower-left list box, select a Web site or a top-level virtual directory and click
Details. If you don't see the item you want, make sure you have the correct feature
selected in Current Feature.
The details dialog box appears.
3. Click the Web Site UI tab.
4. To display installation dialog boxes to the end user at run time, mark Display Run-
Time UI. This adds Web dialog boxes to the installation.
If this is a top-level virtual directory, no other options are available. Skip the
remaining steps and click OK.
If this is a Web site, the remaining options on the tab are enabled when you mark
this check box.
on page 245
Advanced Installations
About the Web Site Details
Setting Installation Options for a Child
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