[wix-devs] Bug #3813 Wrong binding in IIS site

[Fyodor Koryazhkin]

HI,
We foresaw such a scenario that this bug would be fixed some days and went
other way: we compiled our custom WIX version and build our products with
it. But here we faced another problem: every time we want to update to
newer WIX version we must check whether the bug is fixed and then recompile
the WIX locally. We privately fixed some other issues(all of them in custom
actions) but did not open bugs.
I guess it comes time to contribute something to this lovely kit.

On Wed, Jan 18, 2017 at 4:11 PM, John Cooper <JoCooper at jackhenry.com> wrote:

> Yes, it would have some impact.  Some of my custom actions modify the
> bindings and rely on certain states that the IIS extension leaves them in.
> It would not be difficult to change them, but it would impact most of our
> products.
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> Hi,
> This defect is really disturbing us preventing from getting new versions
> and I want to contribute the fix that we implemented locally.
>
> The issue is that if you create binding manually then Windows put the star
> (*) in the field IP address meaning for all unassigned addresses. From the
> other hand WIX IIS extension custom action puts empty string for all
> unassigned addresses. This creates two entries with the same port in
> binding causing WEB site not to start/ crash.
>
> The current code replaces the star with empty string.
> My suggestion is to do the opposite: replace empty string (IIS schema
> allows not to specify IP Port in Address element) with the star. Thus it
> will prevent creating the second entry in binding for the same port.
>
> Will this affect some other areas?
>
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> Regards,
> Fyodor Koryazhkin..
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Regards,
Fyodor Koryazhkin..