How to Change the Default Installation Paths for FTP and the Web

The Internet Information Services 5.0 default installation path is %systemdrive%\Inetpub\Wwwroot for the Web and %systemdrive%\Inetpub\Ftproot for FTP.

At this time, you can only modify the default installation paths for FTP and Web roots either in an unattended setup mode as part of a Windows 2000 unattended installation or as an unattended component installation.

To change the default installation paths for FTP and the Web during an unattended installation, you must:

1. Create an Unattend.txt file and place it on a drive that will be accessible to the Windows 2000 unattended installation program. The Unattended.txt file will be accessed during setup.
2. Include the following section in the unattended installation file:
   [InternetServer] PathFTPRoot=path to FTPRoot PathWWWRoot=path to WwwRoot
   For example:

      [InternetServer]
      PathFTPRoot=D:\Inetpub\Ftproot
      PathWWWRoot=D:\Inetpub\Wwwroot
   					

To change the default installation paths for FTP and the Web during an unattended component installation, you must follow this procedure:

1. Create an unattended install file and name it Iis.txt. This file will be accessed during the unattended component installation. The answer file can be any Windows 2000 answer file. It must contain a "Components" and an "InternetServer" section header. For example:

   [Components]
   iis_common = on
   iis_inetmgr = on
   iis_www = on
   iis_ftp = on
   iis_htmla = on
   
   [InternetServer]
   PathFTPRoot=D:\Inetpub\Ftproot
   PathWWWRoot=D:\Inetpub\Wwwroot
   
   						

2. Use the Sysocmgr.exe command to start the installation of the FTP or Internet Information Services components. Assuming the answer file that you created in step 1 was named Iis.txt, the command line to execute the installation would be:
   sysocmgr /i:%windir%\inf\sysoc.inf /u:c:\iis.txt
   Note that you could also use a batch file to execute the setup. The batch file must contain a command similar to the command above.
   

For additional information on unattended setup, see "Microsoft Windows 2000 Guide to Unattended Setup." This document can be found on the Windows 2000 installation CD-ROM. To view it, extract the Unattend.doc file from the \Support\Tools\Deploy.cab file.

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