InstallShield 2012 Spring Express Edition User Guide

Task To deploy Web services on a target machine:
1. In the View List under Specify Application Data, click Files.
Chapter 11: Configuring Servers
Managing Internet Information Services
2. In the Feature list, select the feature with which you want the Web services associated.
3. In the Destination computer’s folders pane, select the folder (target directory) for installing
files on the target system. Add your files to this folder. You may want this folder to be a new folder
that you create in the folder called [IISROOTFOLDER].
4. In the View List under Configure the Target System, click Internet Information Services.
5. In the Web Sites explorer, select the virtual directory that is associated with the Web service.
6. In the Content Source Path (Local or UNC) setting, click the ellipsis button (...). The Browse
for Directory dialog box opens. Enter the same target directory as the one that contains the new
files that you added in the Files and Folders view.
At installation, files are copied to the target directory folder. In addition, the virtual directory is
configured for that folder on the target system if IIS is present.
Stopping IIS Functionality Through a Custom Action
Stopping IIS through a custom action lets your installation overwrite files that are locked by IIS. If you
are using one of the recent versions of IIS, you can run the following VBScript to unload a Web site,
allowing you to install your .dll files. This means that you do not have to restart IIS, which will drop all of
the Web sites that are running.
For example:
Dim DirObjSet DirObj = GetObject("IIS://LocalHost/W3SVC/1/Root/")DirObj.AppUnloadset dirObj =
nothing"
Adding IISROOTFOLDER Support
IISROOTFOLDER is an InstallShield directory variable that is used to determine the root directory of
the Web server on a target system. If you are using IIS functionality in your installation project and you
have added a Web site, then IISROOTFOLDER is automatically added.
Note: All of the files that you add to the IISROOTFOLDER directory in the Files view are installed to the Web server’s root
directory on the target machine. If IIS is not on the target machine, the files are copied to the root folder.
IIS_WEBSITE_NAME Property
The IIS_WEBSITE_NAME property is obsolete. If this property exists from earlier project versions,
the upgrader will handle it automatically. The upgrader will create a Web site and set the site number
field to [IIS_WEBSITE_NAME]. For new Web sites, you can use any property or hard-coded number.
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