rwap
3rd May 2004 13:43 UTC

Get IP address for IIS Service
I am using NSIS to install a perl program on an IIS server.

However, although on my machine, I use the standard http://127.0.0.1/ to access the website on my IIS server, a friend who wants to use the program has a different setting as he is running a separate server on his intranet.

I cannot find a means of finding this IP address in the registry which is a pain.

So, I guess I need to prompt the user to enter the IP address on installing the program (unless anyone has a better idea).

Does anyone know of a reliable code to enter an IP address? I have searched the archive, but to no avail.

Also, I have created a simple .ini file to display the prompt, but cannot get it to display:


( in main section I have included)
!insertmacro MUI_PAGE_WELCOME
!insertmacro MUI_PAGE_LICENSE "E:\license.txt"

; Need to read IP address
Page custom SetIP "ValidateIP" "Set your IP Address"

!insertmacro MUI_PAGE_DIRECTORY
!insertmacro MUI_PAGE_INSTFILES
!insertmacro MUI_PAGE_FINISH

(and then later on included)

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Function SetIP

;Display the InstallOptions dialog
InstallOptions::dialog "$PLUGINSDIR\IP.ini"

!insertmacro MUI_HEADER_TEXT "Select IP Address" "Enter the IP Address of your server\n(Default 127.0.0.1)"
!insertmacro MUI_INSTALLOPTIONS_DISPLAY "$PLUGINSDIR\IP.ini"
!insertmacro MUI_INSTALLOPTIONS_READ $varCustomerIP "$PLUGINSDIR\IP.ini" "Field 1" "State"
; Temporary fix
StrCpy $varCustomerIP "127.0.0.1"

FunctionEnd

evilO
3rd May 2004 14:51 UTC

Hi rwap :)

To check your IP adress you could use this code written by 'Smile2Me':

http://nsis.sourceforge.net/archive/....php?pageid=60



About the dialog that does not display:

Have you extracted your INI file into the plugins directory ? Otherwise add this bit of code in the '.onInit' function, after the instruction 'InitPluginsdir'.

!insertmacroMUI_INSTALLOPTIONS_EXTRACT_AS"$YOU_PATH\\IP.ini""IP.ini"

rwap
3rd May 2004 23:42 UTC

Thanks for the pointers.

Alas, I had already tried the script by Smile2Me which you suggested, and once I converted it to run properly (ie. did not use test data), it does not return anything on my machine !!

I have however now got my page displaying asking the user to enter the IP address of their server. I just now need to come up with some code to validate the string returned !

Joost Verburg
4th May 2004 10:44 UTC

Use the NSIS string functions.

evilO
4th May 2004 13:22 UTC

once I converted it to run properly (ie. did not use test data)

it does not return anything on my machine !!