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brenotjc
#1 Posted : Wednesday, December 24, 2008 5:53:27 AM(UTC)
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I've been following the Developers guide for 2005/2008 studio (here) and i've become a little confused because the webserver is not installing during installation.

My Development PC Stats:
OS: Vista Business Edition 64bit
Environment: Visual Studio 2008 with .Net 3.5

Target PC:
OS: XP Home/Personal 32bit with .net 3.5

I have done everything the guide said i needed to do. I opened up the prerequiset menu and made sure that Cassini Web Server was checked, and it's currently set to have it download the it from the web. The target PC is connected to the net, no errors on build, i registered my application on my development box and it runs fine in Cassini.

I checked the event log on the target pc and there were no errors. The Cassini service was not started because Cassini isn't being installed in the first place.

If I can provide more information, please let me know. I've been working with this for the past 5 hours and have not been able to overcome this issue.

Thank you.
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#2 Posted : Wednesday, December 24, 2008 6:04:48 AM(UTC)
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Hi there!

Thank you much for using UltiDev Cassini. We will help you figure out what's going on.

Could you please let us know whether you have started an installation by launching Setup.exe or the MSI file itself? (Starting the installation using Deployment project's Install item from the right-click menu is the same as running MSI). Prerequisites can only be checked and installed by the installation bootstrapper - Setup.exe - because MSIs cannot start other MSIs. Running MSI instead of Setup.exe is consistent with the result you have described.

Please let us know if this information has helped.

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brenotjc
#3 Posted : Wednesday, December 24, 2008 7:21:19 AM(UTC)
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I placed the exe and the msi on my thumb drive for testing. I installed my program using the .exe.
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#4 Posted : Wednesday, December 24, 2008 8:46:26 AM(UTC)
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From what you have described, you have done everything correctly. Could you please also confirm that target machine did not have any UltiDev Cassini components installed?

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brenotjc
#5 Posted : Wednesday, December 24, 2008 9:00:02 AM(UTC)
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I have confirmed Cassini is not on the target PC. It is a box we built in house for testing and have never used Cassini before. It would seem to me that when it checks for the prereqs, it's supposed to download Cassini from the web and install, which is the part that is getting skipped. It installs the rest of the program though with no errors.
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#6 Posted : Wednesday, December 24, 2008 9:06:30 AM(UTC)
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We have never seen this problem before. Could you please build the installation package using the "Download prerequisites from the same location..." option? This should produce a package with UltiDev Cassini folder in the same location where Setup.exe and the MSI are. Please let us know whether you see UltiDev Cassini folder there and also try to install your package using Setup.exe. This exercise will tell whether bootstrapper manifest is getting added to Setup.exe at all.

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brenotjc
#7 Posted : Wednesday, December 24, 2008 9:34:20 AM(UTC)
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I will try with the same location option. I'll have to remove my pre requiset for .net 3.5 but for testing purposes this should be fine. It would seem to me as if it's not getting added to the bootstrapper at all since nothing concerning Cassini ever happens during install. I may have to resume this task on Monday the 29th, so I apologize for any delay in information.

Thank you for your help so far. :)
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#8 Posted : Wednesday, December 24, 2008 1:35:15 PM(UTC)
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Not a problem at all. We'll be ready whenever it's convenient for you.

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brenotjc
#9 Posted : Monday, December 29, 2008 4:30:39 AM(UTC)
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Ok, I've tried the same location option and verified that the cassini install was in the same location before clicking on the Setup Bootstrapper. The install ran as it did before; nothing indicating Cassini was installing. I checked the Services and Cassini was not running and checked add/remove programs but Cassini still hadn't installed.

Any more suggestions on what to try or is there more information I can provide to help you discern what may be the issue?

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brenotjc
#10 Posted : Monday, December 29, 2008 6:31:18 AM(UTC)
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Still needing help. Haven't found much info around the web.
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#11 Posted : Monday, December 29, 2008 9:39:55 AM(UTC)
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Hi there.

If there is not UltiDev Cassini items in the "Add/Remove Programs", then boostrapper does not do its job. You seem to be doing everything properly, Visual Studio generates the package correctly, but it's impossible to tell whether Setup.exe is generated without the manifest, or it has the manifest but fails to act on it. To help determine that, try creating a simple one-page testing web site, along with the installer that has UltiDev Cassini as a prereq. See if you have the same issue. Trying both test project installer and your application installer on different machines. If they never ever work, then something is wrong with how Setup.exe gets generated. If they work on one box but not on another, then something is wrong with the target machine.

Please try our sample application that has UltiDev Cassini installed as a prereq. See if that installation gets Cassini installed or not.

Please let us know what you have found.

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