User Guide

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About Web Installations
About Web Installations
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Professional and Enterprise Editions only.
You can create an installation that installs Web resources to a Microsoft Internet
Information Server (IIS) by using the Web Files page in Installation Expert.
To learn about file-related functionality on the Web Files page, see Files or Web Files
Page on page 121 and its subtopics.
To learn about Web-related functionality, see:
Features That Support Web Installations on page 217
Creating a Web Site on page 219
Creating a Virtual Directory on page 220
Creating a New Web Folder on page 221
Setting Installation Options for a Web Installation on page 222
Setting Details for Web Sites, Virtual Directories, and Web Folders on page 224
Note
If you cannot see the Web Files page in the list of pages in Installation Expert, select Web
Application or All from the Page Views drop-down list in the upper left corner.
The Web Files page is almost identical to the Files page. The differences are:
Features That Support Web Installations
" Professional and Enterprise Editions only.
In addition to the Web Files page, several features throughout the product specifically
support Web application installations:
Files page Web Files page
Can create directories and add files to
them.
Can create Web folders, virtual
directories, and Web sites, and add files
to them.
Can set NTFS-based (NT file system)
permissions on directories.
Can set Web-based security on
directories.
Shows all directories and files to be
installed, including Web items.
Shows only directories and files to be
accessible via an IIS Web server.
Shows Web sites under the physical
directory where they will be installed.
Shows Web sites in the hierarchy as they
will appear in IIS Internet Services
Manager.
Contains the wwwroot directory, which
represents the physical InetPub\wwwroot
directory on the destination computer.
Does not contain wwwroot, but you can
map a virtual directory to a physical
directory you created under wwwroot on
the Files page.
Cannot delete a physical directory that is
mapped to a virtual directory or Web
site.
Can delete a virtual directory or Web
site, and a message asks if you want to
delete the corresponding mapped
physical directory and files.