Deployment

[M.D.M.]

Hi,

I want to deploy my Web service to http://www.mydomain.com/MyWebService.asmx
Where can I set DNS in Web setup project ?
I.e. I want my setup project will configure host header value to
http://www.mydomain.com/MyWebService.asmx for target IIS.
(IIS / My Web site properties / Web site / Advanced / Host header value).

Thanks.

 

[Vern DeHaven]

MDM,

DNS is up to DNS, not VS.NET. You will be able to address your Web
service as such if your server's IP is registered to "www.mydomain.com"
with DNS. The deployment project will handle virtual directories and
below only.

You can deploy to the root of a Web site by blanking the virtual directory
textbox on setup.

HTH,
Vern

 

[M.D.M.]

Suppose, I have on my Web server many Web sites with many domain names e.g.:
www.mydomain1.com for Web site # 1
www.mydomainname2.com for Web site #c 2
....
www.mydomainname50.com for Web site # 50

but if I make Web setup project for Web service in VS.NET and then I will
run it in my target server, Web service will be installed to default Web site
in IIS. This means I can access it via http://loacalhost/ from Web server and
this I do not want. I want to deploy its to one specific DNS name (e.g. to
www.mydomainname51.com) not to loacalhost.

P.S.: Host header must be www.mydomain51.com only. In my first post I
miscopied it. (I wrote http://www.mydomain.com/MyWebService.asmx what is bad).

 

[[MSFT]]

Hello,

I think each of your web site has different port on your server. When we
install a web setup created in VS.NET, we can specify the port we want to
install, so that the web service can be installed on different web site.

Luke

 

[M.D.M.]

Yes, you are true but all my Web sites have same port viz. 80 on single
machine. And all Web sites can have same port thanks to they have different
host header i.e. domain name. But VS.NET by default installs to host header
localhost and I want to install to www.mydomainname51.com.

I could use for every Web site different port but it is strong inconvenient
for end users.

E.g. Suppose Microsoft has one Web site www.microsoft.com and other
msdn.microsoft.com - 2 DNS addresses. Both run at port 80 but you must set
host header in IIS to their DNS or otherwise you will unable to create two
Web site on single port on single machine. And if Microsoft do Web setup
project for www.microsoft.com and msdn.microsoft.com they must specify host
header i.e. DNS in their Web setup project. They can not install one to
http://localhost/msdn and other to http://loacalhost/www because we should
need to access them only via single DNS address and not via 2 i.e.
www.microsoft.com and msdn.microsoft.com.

Hope now it is clear what I want to do.

 

[[MSFT]]

Thank you for the clarify. I think VS.NET setup may help on the problem. It
cannot specify the Host Header yet. I think you need to specify the
directory for each of web site and VS.NET setup file can help you to
install program files to these specified folder.

Luke

 

[B.J.]

Hi,

In book Deploying .NET Applications Lifecycle Guide published in Microsoft
Press is written :

Web setup projects allow you to specify which port to install the
application on, they do not currently support deployment of a Web application
to a site differentiated by host headers. Therefore, you need to consider
alternatives to using Web setup projects to package your Web applications if
you need to deploy in this scenario."