Question

I want to create virtual directory foo underneath the following existing IIS structure using Wix.

//Default website/mywebapp/editor

In the above snippet, ‘mywebapp’ is a web applicatoin and editor is a non-virtual folder inside that. My new virtual directory ‘foo’ needs to be created inside that non-virtual folder ‘editor’

I am using IIS 7 and Wix 3.5.

Can the above be done using tags or do i need to write a custom action to do that?

Thanks in advance

Answer 1

Finally i found a easy solution to this. came to know that we can use relative path for the alias attribute of webvirtualdir element. So to create virtual folder foo i did the following

1. Referred the Default website using website element

   <iis:WebSite  Id="My.Site" Description="Default Website">
     <iis:WebAddress Id="My.Web.Address" Port="12300"/>
   </iis:WebSite>
   

2. added webvirtualdir element with alias set to mywebapp/editor/foo (webapp/subfolder/virtualdir)

   <Directory Id="TARGETDIR" Name="SourceDir">
    <Directory Id="ProgramFilesFolder">
       <Directory Id="INSTALLLOCATION" Name="IISDemo">
         <Component Id="IIS.Component" Guid="{6FAD9EC7-D2B0-4471-A657-C8AF5F6F707F}" KeyPath="yes">
           <iis:WebVirtualDir Id="My.VirtualDir" Alias="mywebapp/editor/foo" Directory="INSTALLLOCATION" WebSite="My.Site">              
           </iis:WebVirtualDir>
         </Component>
       </Directory>
     </Directory>
   </Directory>
   

never expected that the solution is that simple. But meanwhile i have written a custom action using system.directoryservices to achieve the same. But this one is simpler and neat. Might be useful for someone who faces the same scenario. Thanks