[mapguide-internals] About the WiX installer

Jackie Ng jumpinjackie at gmail.com
Fri Mar 6 13:01:34 EST 2009


Yeah, I left out the ampersand in my conditions XD It's all working now. 

Apache still won't run though because of mod_mgmapagent.

- Jackie


Jason Birch wrote:
> 
> Cool...
> 
> If you look at the server custom action invocation (in the
> Installers/Mapguide/ dir I think), there is a condition there to change
> what happens on install/uninstall; should be able to use this to limit
> apache CA.  
> 
> I wonder if WiX has an easy way of inserting a RunOnce as a CA to defer
> the server install until the reg key is set...
> 
> I think Kenneth was looking at IIS config.  Should be able to rev-eng a
> clean IIS install using ?heat.exe?
> 
> J
> 
> 
> 
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> 
> Update:
> 
> 1. MENTOR_DICTIONARY_PATH is now set properly. Reboot is required to take
> effect though.
> 2. MapGuide service installs and runs (as a result), but it only starts
> running after a reboot.
> 3. Added and customised the apache custom action supplied by Autodesk.
> 3.1. httpd.conf has all its templated values plugged in during
> installation.
> 3.2. php.ini has all its templated values plugged in during installation.
> 4. Apache service installs, but does not run (a problem with
> mod_mgmapagent.so)
> 
> Problems:
> 
> 1. Apache doesn't run (problem with mod_mgmapagent.so)
> 2. Apache custom actions also run when uninstalling. 
> 
> Still Todo:
> 
> 1. IIS configuration. Will try to use what's supplied in Wix. Will only
> use
> the Autodesk supplied ones as a last resort.
> 2. Custom UIs to change install properties.
> 
> - Jackie
> 
> 
> Jackie Ng wrote:
>> 
>> Hi All,
>> 
>> I'm trying to grok the WiX installer files. When trying to build the wix
>> installers, it is erroring out because it can't find a whole load of
>> files. 
>> 
>> Given a checkout of the mapguide svn trunk, what do I need to do to
>> ensure
>> the wix installers build without problems?
>> 
>> - Jackie
>> 
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