[wix-users] Running the application (not the MSI) as administrator

[Edwin Castro]

Depending on context, %ProgramData%\<CompanyName>\<ApplicationName> might
be good location too.

%TEMP% or under %LocalAppData%\<CompanyName>\<ApplicationName> are good for
applications that run as the logged in user. Both %TEMP% and %LocalAppData%
are per-user locations.

%ProgramData%\<CompanyName>\<ApplicationName> is good for applications that
run as services as generally you don't want to log to your service
account's per-user location as that makes root-cause analysis much harder
later.

--
Edwin G. Castro

On Tue, Dec 31, 2019 at 9:20 AM Rob Mensching via wix-users <
wix-users at lists.wixtoolset.org> wrote:

> %TMP%\ unless you need to keep them forever (for some reason?) then
> %LocalAppData%\<CompanyName>\.
>
> Short replies here. Complete answers here:
> https://www.firegiant.com/services/
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Zac Harvey <zharvey at pobox.com>
> Sent: Tuesday, December 31, 2019 9:10 AM
> To: Rob Mensching <rob at firegiant.com>; Zac Harvey via wix-users <
> wix-users at lists.wixtoolset.org>
> Subject: Re: [wix-users] Running the application (not the MSI) as
> administrator
>
> Thanks Rob, where do modern Windows apps typically write log files? Is
> there a standard? Generally speaking I try to *not* fight convention
> wherever I can ;-)
>
> Thanks,
> Zac
>
> On Tue, Dec 31, 2019, at 11:59 AM, Rob Mensching wrote:
> > Put your log file somewhere else. Trying to write to the application
> > folder is anti-security since ~2006.
> >
> > -----Original Message-----
> > From: wix-users <wix-users-bounces at lists.wixtoolset.org> On Behalf Of
> > Zac Harvey via wix-users
> > Sent: Tuesday, December 31, 2019 8:51 AM
> > To: wix-users at lists.wixtoolset.org
> > Cc: Zac Harvey <zharvey at pobox.com>
> > Subject: [wix-users] Running the application (not the MSI) as
> > administrator
> >
> > I am very pleased (so thank you!) with how easy WiX 3.11.2 has been to
> > setup and use. I am a Mac/Linux developer that had a rare project crop
> > up that required me to write a Windows application and MSI installer,
> > and WiX has been a joy to work with thus far.
> >
> > I have my MSI installed correctly installing my application under
> > C:\Program Files (x86)\My App. And when it starts up it works
> > perfectly, *except* one small item:
> >
> > The app *should* be created a log file in that same directory (so
> > C:\Program Files (x86)\My App\my-app.log). I noticed that although my
> > app starts up and runs just fine (from the end user's perspective),
> > the log file is not created.
> >
> > So I right-clicked the EXE (C:\Program Files (x86)\My App\my-app.exe)
> > and flagged it to *Run as administrator*, and that seemed to solve the
> > problem. Now, when the app starts up, the log file is created and is
> > written to as expected; all is well.
> >
> > Its not a *huge* inconvenience to setting this "Run as administrator"
> > flag manually, but ideally, the MSI installer would handle this for me.
> > I came across this article:
> >
> > https://stackoverflow.com/a/6124767/5235665
> >
> > ...but I think that is for making the MSI installer itself run as the
> > administrator, and I'm not entirely sure thats what I want (is it?).
> > Again, the MSI runs great, its just that at start time, my *app* (not
> > the installer) needs to run as the admin.
> >
> > Can anyone weigh in as to what I need to do (specifically which
> > commands added to which file) to get my (MSI-installed) app running as
> > administrator?
> >
> > Thanks for such a great tool, and Happy New Year!
> >
> > Best,
> > Zac
> >
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