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Asked: 2026-05-10T20:11:44+00:00

I’m trying to use NAnt/NAntContrib build script to build a web application on Windows

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I’m trying to use NAnt/NAntContrib build script to build a web application on Windows 2008 (IIS 7.0).

In the build file, there is mkiisdir task, which fails with:

[mkiisdir] The webservice at ‘localhost’ does not exist or is not reachable.

All the documents/posts I found so far (non for w2k8, only Vista) say to install IIS 6 Compatibility services (all of them, including scripting tools, etc.) So I did, but it still throws this error.

Any idea what else need to be changes, so NAnt be able to create/delete virtual directories on IIS 7.0?

EDIT: New data – when I log in as local administrator to this server, the nant task succeeds, but it fails when I log in as a domain admin. I have added the domain admins group in the local Administrators group, but it still fails. Any idea what other permissions I need to check/change in order to make my domain admin user to be able to execute this task? I can create manually virtual folders without any problems.

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  1. To answer my own question – I have isolated the part of the code in NantContrib which was causing the problem, and made a sample application to test.

    I have posted this as a separate question here, and there is the solution as well.

    Cheers

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