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jlupolt
Asked: 2009-12-11 07:34:06 +0800 CST

Microsoft Web Deployment Tool: "Only absolute paths are supported"

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I get the following error when I try to use the Web Deployment Tool and a URL is the path of a virtual directory:

C:\Program Files\IIS\Microsoft Web Deploy>msdeploy -verb:sync -source:metakey=lm/w3svc -dest:archivedir=c:\archive,encryptPassword=mypassword > msdeployachive.log

Error: File system path 'http://mysite.com/nnn' is not valid. Only absolute paths are supported. Error count: 1.

This appears to be the part of the metabase (IIS 6) it is complaining about:

<IIsWebVirtualDir   Location ="/LM/W3SVC/9999999999/root/stuff"
        AccessFlags="AccessRead"
        AppFriendlyName="stuff"
        HttpRedirect="http://mysite.com/nnn"
        Path="http://mysite.com/nnn"
    >
</IIsWebVirtualDir>

Unfortunately there are hundreds of virtual directories like this with a URL as the path.

Anyone know of a solution or a good alternative for migrating hundreds of sites from IIS 6 to IIS 7?

Thanks

iis

1 Answers

  1. Best Answer

    I got it to run like this:

    msdeploy -verb:sync -source:metakey=lm/w3svc,filePath.ignoreErrors=0x8000020;0x80070005 -skip:attributes.value="http:/mysite.com/.*$" -dest:archivedir=c:\archive,encryptPassword=mypassword -verbose -debug > msdeployarchive.log
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