Custom Action for WiX gets wrong website

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Custom Action for WiX gets wrong website
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SSteefel




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When building a MSI package for a website and deploying to a server that has multiple sites, the Custom Action SetTARGETSITE only selects the Default Website.

How do I get this to select the specified website that I want to target??
Posted 29 Jan, 2016 15:01:15 Top
Andrei Smolin


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Hello,

Could you please explain? I assume you created a n installer and used the Installation Address dialog in it. My question is: do you see other web sites in that dialog? Or your problem is: whatever web site you select, the installer installs everything to the default web site?

Regards from Belarus (GMT+3),

Andrei Smolin
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Posted 01 Feb, 2016 06:07:05 Top
SSteefel




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Andrei Smolin writes:
Custom Action for WiX gets wrong website


No we are not attempting to use the dialog select - we want to be able to deploy with a known site name and have the MSI install with no user/administrator prompts.
Posted 01 Feb, 2016 11:22:25 Top
Dmitry Kostochko


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Hi Sean,

Thank you for the explanation. In this case you need to directly specify the TARGETDIR, TARGETSITE, TARGETPORT and probably TARGETIP properties: 


    <!--
    <CustomAction Id="DIRCA_TARGETDIR" Property="TARGETDIR" Value="[IISROOT]\[TARGETVDIR]" Execute="firstSequence" />
    -->
    <CustomAction Id="DIRCA_TARGETDIR" Property="TARGETDIR" Value="C:\inetpub\wwwroot\[TARGETVDIR]" Execute="firstSequence" />

    <Property Id="TARGETSITE" Value="test1" />

    <!-- 
    <Property Id="TARGETPORT" Value="80" />
    -->
    <Property Id="TARGETPORT" Value="8081" />

    <Property Id="TARGETIP" Value="*" />


Please try this approach and let me know about the results.
Posted 02 Feb, 2016 10:05:15 Top