[wix-users] Heat for Default Web Site

[Ven H]

Has anyone worked on this?


On Tue, Apr 21, 2020 at 10:43 PM Ven H <venh.123 at gmail.com> wrote:

> Has anyone used Heat for harvesting a website? I am using WiX 3.14 to
> harvest an existing Default Web Site (which has a lot of custom settings,
> custom Virtual Directories and Applications) by following the syntax given
> in the below link. Command highlighted in bold.
>
> *heat website "Default Web Site" -template:fragment -out E:\website.wxs*
> Windows Installer XML Toolset Toolset Harvester version 3.14.0.1703
> Copyright (c) .NET Foundation and contributors. All rights reserved.
>
> https://wixtoolset.org/documentation/manual/v3/overview/heat.html
>
> However, I am getting an exception, as shown below. Complete output below.
>
> heat.exe : warning HEAT1108 : The command line switch 'template:' is
> deprecated. Please use 'template' instead.
> heat.exe : error HEAT0001 : Object reference not set to an instance of an
> object.
>
> Exception Type: System.NullReferenceException
>
> Stack Trace:
>    at
> Microsoft.Tools.WindowsInstallerXml.Extensions.DirectoryHarvester.HarvestDirectory(String
> path, String relativePath, Boolean harvestChildren)
>    at
> Microsoft.Tools.WindowsInstallerXml.Extensions.DirectoryHarvester.HarvestDirectory(String
> path, Boolean harvestChildren)
>    at
> Microsoft.Tools.WindowsInstallerXml.Extensions.IIsHarvesterMutator.HarvestUniqueDirectory(String
> path, Boolean harvestChildren)
>    at
> Microsoft.Tools.WindowsInstallerXml.Extensions.IIsHarvesterMutator.MutateWebVirtualDirs()
>    at
> Microsoft.Tools.WindowsInstallerXml.Extensions.IIsHarvesterMutator.Mutate(Wix
> wix)
>    at Microsoft.Tools.WindowsInstallerXml.Mutator.Mutate(Wix wix)
>    at Microsoft.Tools.WindowsInstallerXml.Tools.Heat.Run(String[] args)
>
> *Unhandled Exception: System.NullReferenceException: Object reference not
> set to an instance of an object.*
>    at
> Microsoft.Tools.WindowsInstallerXml.Extensions.DirectoryHarvester.HarvestDirectory(String
> path, String relativePath, Boolean harvestChildren)
>    at
> Microsoft.Tools.WindowsInstallerXml.Extensions.DirectoryHarvester.HarvestDirectory(String
> path, Boolean harvestChildren)
>    at
> Microsoft.Tools.WindowsInstallerXml.Extensions.IIsHarvesterMutator.HarvestUniqueDirectory(String
> path, Boolean harvestChildren)
>    at
> Microsoft.Tools.WindowsInstallerXml.Extensions.IIsHarvesterMutator.MutateWebVirtualDirs()
>    at
> Microsoft.Tools.WindowsInstallerXml.Extensions.IIsHarvesterMutator.Mutate(Wix
> wix)
>    at Microsoft.Tools.WindowsInstallerXml.Mutator.Mutate(Wix wix)
>    at Microsoft.Tools.WindowsInstallerXml.Tools.Heat.Run(String[] args)
>    at Microsoft.Tools.WindowsInstallerXml.Tools.Heat.Main(String[] args)
>
> Any help would be really great.
>
>