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.NET Forum / Visual Studio.NET / Setup / April 2004Setup Web Project error
I have created an ASP app and I've used the VS.NET Setup project wizard to create an install. The install works great on XP and 2000 machines. The ASP app runs great. (NOTE:: This is NOT a .NET app but a plain .ASP app.) The installation is supposed to create a virtual directory and put all my ASP files in the new folder. When I install on NT 4.0 SP6 it fails. During the install process I get an error saying "The specified path http://computername//myvirtualdir is unavailable...." there some more generic info that follows. Is an installation like this not backwards compatible with NT 4.0? Is there any way around this? Any help would be very appreciated. Hi Matt, Thanks for posting. I have not yet done any tests on this issue. However, the Web Setup projects are supposed to work with ASP.Net projects and ASP.Net projects are not supposed to work with IIS 4. As a result, Web Setup projects are not supposed to work with IIS 4.0. Web Setup projects make use of "custom actions" to create virtual directories. You can also author your own custom actions to create virtual directories against IIS 4.0. Regards, Felix Wang Microsoft Online Partner Support  SignatureGet Secure! - www.microsoft.com/security This posting is provided "as is" with no warranties and confers no rights. Thank you very much Felix. I'll try using a Custom Action to create the virtual directory and see if that will work. All the API's I've seen so far however are only for IIS 5 and 6. None of them work with 4. Ideally I'd like to list the web sites that particular machine is running and let the user pick which site to install this virtual directory and application on. Thank you again. I really appreciate your help. > Hi Matt, > [quoted text clipped - 13 lines] > Get Secure! - www.microsoft.com/security > This posting is provided "as is" with no warranties and confers no rights. Hi Matt, Thanks for your quick response. I don't have much hand on experience with IIS 4.0 and I may not help you much on the APIs. If you need any further assistance, you may also try posting in IIS newsgrops, for example "microsoft.public.inetserver.iis". Should you have any concerns regarding Windows Installer custom actions, please feel free to post here. Regards, Felix Wang Microsoft Online Partner Support SignatureGet Secure! - www.microsoft.com/security This posting is provided "as is" with no warranties and confers no rights. Felix - that means that the launch condition that the VS setup project generates is incorrect. It generates a check that the IIS version on the system is >=4, but maybe it should be >=5. SignaturePhil Wilson [MVP Windows Installer] > Hi Matt, > [quoted text clipped - 13 lines] > Get Secure! - www.microsoft.com/security > This posting is provided "as is" with no warranties and confers no rights. Phil, So you are saying the the Installer should pop up a message stating that Version 5 or better is required? > Felix - that means that the launch condition that the VS setup project > generates is incorrect. It generates a check that the IIS version on the > system is >=4, but maybe it should be >=5. Hi Phil, This is really a good point and challenging. I will find a Windows NT 4 Server and do some tests on it. I always appreciate your comments. Regards, Felix Wang Microsoft Online Partner Support SignatureGet Secure! - www.microsoft.com/security This posting is provided "as is" with no warranties and confers no rights. Hi all, I have done some tests. It seems to me that the Web Setup project works with IIS 4.0, although it may not be a supported scenario. Matt, have you applied all the critical updates for the Windows NT 4 Server? In addition, I install IIS 4 from the Option Pack. To track the installation issue, we can turn on the verbose log for the installation: MsiExec /i WebSetup1.msi /l*v C:\msi.log From the log, we can see where the error occurs. Regards, Felix Wang Microsoft Online Partner Support SignatureGet Secure! - www.microsoft.com/security This posting is provided "as is" with no warranties and confers no rights. > Matt, have you applied all the critical updates for the Windows NT 4 > Server? In addition, I install IIS 4 from the Option Pack. > To track the installation issue, we can turn on the verbose log for the > installation: Wow! I'll do that now and get right back to you. Matt > From the log, we can see where the error occurs. Here is a link to my log and to my .msi file. Thank you for taking time to do this. Log: ftp://ftp.ezusa.net/msi.log Installation: ftp://ftp.ezusa.net/Spam%20Crusher%20Enterprise.msi > Hi all, > [quoted text clipped - 17 lines] > Get Secure! - www.microsoft.com/security > This posting is provided "as is" with no warranties and confers no rights. This seems to be the error: Action start 9:16:19: WEBCA_CreateAppRoots. MSI (s) (5E:5E): Creating MSIHANDLE (16) of type 790542 for thread 94 DEBUG: Error 2835: The control ErrorIcon was not found on dialog ErrorDialog The installer has encountered an unexpected error installing this package. This may indicate a problem with this package. The error code is 2835. The arguments are: ErrorIcon, ErrorDialog, Error 1314. The specified path 'http://ezusa01/spamcrusher' is unavailable. The Internet Information Server might not be running or the path exists and is redirected to another machine. Please check the status of this virtual directory in the Internet Services Manager. Does that help? SignaturePhil Wilson [MVP Windows Installer] ---- > > From the log, we can see where the error occurs. > [quoted text clipped - 30 lines] > > Get Secure! - www.microsoft.com/security > > This posting is provided "as is" with no warranties and confers no rights. Yes that's the error that appears on the screen. The Installation is supposed to create the folder/application called "spamcrusher" and copy all the ASP files there. I've tried it on 3 fairly clean NT machines and I get the same error. This Install works great on Win 2000 and XP. I've tried it on several machines of each type. But it always barks on NT 4.0 SP6 machines. I did run Windows Update to make sure all updates are applied and they are. No critical updates available. The NT machines do host web sites so I know IIS is running just fine on them. If you have any direction I would be most grateful. Sincerely, Matt Porter > This seems to be the error: > [quoted text clipped - 44 lines] > > > Get Secure! - www.microsoft.com/security > > > This posting is provided "as is" with no warranties and confers no rights. Hi Matt, I have tried your MSI on my test machine. It installs without any problem on IIS 4. The virtual directroy is created correctly and I can view the application with http://localhost/spamcrusher. My IIS 4 comes with the NT 4.0 Option Pack. I am not sure whether this matters or not. In addition, do you have multiple web site instances running on the server? Is any of the instances not running? Regards, Felix Wang Microsoft Online Partner Support SignatureGet Secure! - www.microsoft.com/security This posting is provided "as is" with no warranties and confers no rights. > I have tried your MSI on my test machine. It installs without any problem > on IIS 4. Well that's good news!!! That tells me it's not an IIS 4 or NT 4 issue. >In addition, do you have multiple web site instances running on the server? >Is any of the instances not running? Yes we do have multiple sites running on our IIS 4 servers. And they are all running. I can certainly reduce it down to one and try it again. Thank you so much for your help. If you have any other thoughts I'd love to hear them. Sincerely, Matt Porter American Systems > Hi Matt, > [quoted text clipped - 14 lines] > Get Secure! - www.microsoft.com/security > This posting is provided "as is" with no warranties and confers no rights. Hi Matt, Do you have a clean NT 4 system for test purpose? Mine only have 2 sites - Default and Admin. The web application is installed to /LM/W3SVC/1/ROOT/spamcrusher (the default site). Regards, Felix Wang Microsoft Online Partner Support SignatureGet Secure! - www.microsoft.com/security This posting is provided "as is" with no warranties and confers no rights. No but I can find one. I'll get that together and let you know what happens. I'm VERY interested too. Thanks for your help on this. Matt > Hi Matt, > [quoted text clipped - 8 lines] > Get Secure! - www.microsoft.com/security > This posting is provided "as is" with no warranties and confers no rights. Hi Matt, Is there any update on this issue? Regards, Felix Wang Microsoft Online Partner Support SignatureGet Secure! - www.microsoft.com/security This posting is provided "as is" with no warranties and confers no rights.
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