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<meta name="author" content="Stuart Rackham" />
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<title>Creating a Windows Installer Wizard for Website Distribution</title>
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<a href="index.html">Overview</a>
<a href="webpages.html">Web Pages</a>
<a href="aap-script.html">A-A-P Script</a>
<a href="execution-environment.html">Execution Environment</a>
<a href="installation-wizard.html">Installation Wizard</a>
<a href="cdrom-creation.html">CD-ROM Creation</a>
<a href="links.html">Links</a>
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<h1>Creating a Windows Installer Wizard for Website Distribution</h1>
<div id="preamble">
<p>
The website installation wizard was created using the excellent
<a href="links.html">Inno Setup</a> compiler written by Jordan Russell. In
fact I use two Inno Setup add-on programs (both of which I recommend
highly) to create and compile the installation wizard:
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<ol>
<li>
<p>
<a href="links.html">ISTool</a> written by Bjornar Henden.
</p>
</li>
<li>
<p>
<a href="links.html">My Inno Setup Extensions</a> written by Martijn Laan.
</p>
</li>
</ol>
<p>
The Inno Setup compiler script <tt>website-manager.iss</tt> is used to build
the setup wizard and can be found in the <tt>examples/website/install</tt>
<em>AsciiDoc</em> distribution directory.
</p>
<p>
To build the <tt>website-manager-setup.exe</tt> setup wizard follow these
steps:
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<ol>
<li>
<p>
Change the <tt>OutputDir</tt> and <tt>SourceDir</tt> parameters (in the <tt>[Setup]</tt>
section of the <tt>website-manager.iss</tt> Inno Setup script) to suit your
development environment.
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</li>
<li>
<p>
You should also have changed the <tt>FTP_ROOT</tt> definition in the
<a href="aap-script.html"><tt>main.aap</tt></a> file.
</p>
</li>
<li>
<p>
Run the <tt>website-manager.iss</tt> Inno Setup script through the Inno
Setup compiler to create the <tt>website-manager-setup.exe</tt> setup
wizard executable.
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</li>
</ol>
<p>
The compiled setup wizard <tt>website-manager-setup.exe</tt> is around 3.5MB
and when run on a target computer will install:
</p>
<ul>
<li>
<p>
The website source (<em>AsciiDoc</em> and configuration files, CSS
stylesheets, images).
</p>
</li>
<li>
<p>
A-A-P site management script file.
</p>
</li>
<li>
<p>
<em>AsciiDoc</em> and A-A-P applications.
</p>
</li>
<li>
<p>
Stand-alone Python execution environment to execute <em>AsciiDoc</em> and
A-A-P).
</p>
</li>
<li>
<p>
Program icons to allow the user rebuild and publish (upload) the
website.
</p>
</li>
</ul>
<div class="image">
<p>
<img src="wizard.png" alt="Wizard page 1 screenshot" title="Wizard page 1 screenshot" border="0"/>
</p>
</div>
<p>
None of the applications installed by the setup wizard (<em>AsciiDoc</em>,
A-A-P Recipe Executive or Python) will interfere with existing
installations. No application registry entries are written and no
files are installed into the Windows System directories.
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Website built using <a href="http://www.methods.co.nz/asciidoc/">AsciiDoc</a>
and <a href="http://www.a-a-p.org/">A-A-P</a><br/>
Last updated 29-Jan-2005 14:47:12 NZDT <br/>
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<p><span class="ahem">This document might look funny (or very plain) to you,
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