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Creating a Web Site

Windows Installer Editor Reference
Instance transforms
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About Web Installations
New Web sites that you add to an installation appear under the Program Files directory
by default.
Prior to Windows Vista, Microsoft Internet Information Server (IIS) supported the
creation of new Web sites only on server operating systems, which excluded Windows
2000 Professional and Windows XP. For workstation operating systems that do not
support the creation of a Web site, you can let end users create a virtual directory
instead of a Web site. When you set the installation options for a Web installation, you
can select an option to install it as a virtual directory.
See Setting Installation Options for a Web Installation
To create a Web site
1. Select Installation Expert > Web Files page.
If you don't see the Web Files page, select All from the Page Views drop-down list.
2. From Current Feature, select a feature or condition. (Because any item you add
must be assigned to a specific feature, you cannot add an item when All Features
is selected.)
3. If the Web installation requires a Web server restart, mark Restart IIS service
during installation. This check box does not appear when All Features is selected
above.
4. In the lower-left list box, select a parent node.
5. Click New and select New Web Site.
The New Web Site dialog box appears.
6. Complete the dialog box:
Description
Enter a description for the directory, which serves as an identifying name in
Internet Information Services.
Local Path
Specify the physical directory to which the Web site is mapped. You can browse
to any directory that has already been added to the installation. Example:
Change this to a directory under wwwroot to have this item reside under
wwwroot.
7. Click OK.
The site appears in the lower-left list box.
8. Select the new site and click Details.
You can install more than one instance of a Web
application to multiple virtual directories using instance
transforms.
See Multiple Instance Installations
on page 245
Advanced Installations
on page 346.
on page 252.
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