Installing a Web Application to an Existing IIS Website using Wix3

July 2009

Jirong Hu

This article describes a detailed procedure for installing a new web application under an existing IIS website, when Wix3 is used to create the msi file. This can be a common requirement in a large deployment. However, I find it's a lot of work to actually get it done and I hope this article can be useful to many other people like me. A complete set of sample code is also provided.

1 The Requirement
The SFS application I am working on used to have a fixed installation directory under the Default Web Site which is "C:\inetput\wwwroot\SFS". And one day we got a message from our deployment team:

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