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Modify web.config when the module is installed

9/22/2011 5:39 PM

Brilliance Business Solutions Team

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Modify web.config when the module is installed

Can anyone comment on this new (as of DNN5) functionality that I found in the post: http://dnnsitemap.codeplex.com/workit... ? The post says that this feature has been added: "DNN 5 provides a way to modify the web.config as required by the module at install time. Add the feature so there's no manual setup involved".

I have not been able to find any other discussion or documentation on it or how to use it.

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9/22/2011 9:11 PM

Philip Beadle

Joined: 1/7/2003

Posts: 1822

Re: Modify web.config when the module is installed Modified By Philip Beadle on 9/22/2011 9:14:05 PM

You can do it like this.

<component type="Config">

<config>

<configFile>web.configconfigFile>


    <install>
      <configuration>
        <nodes>
          <node path="/configuration/configSections/sectionGroup[@name='dotnetnuke']" action="update" key="name" collision="ignore">
            <section name="clientcapability" requirePermission="false" type="DotNetNuke.Framework.Providers.ProviderConfigurationHandler, DotNetNuke" />
          node>

          <node path="/configuration/dotnetnuke" action="update" targetpath="/configuration/dotnetnuke/clientcapability" collision="ignore">
            <clientcapability defaultProvider="WURFLClientCapabilityProvider">
              <providers>
                <clear />
                <add name="WURFLClientCapabilityProvider" type="DotNetNuke.Services.ClientCapability.WURFLClientCapabilityProvider, DotNetNuke.Provider.WURFLClientCapabilityProvider" />
              providers>

            clientcapability>                  node>                  

        nodes>

      configuration>

    install>

    <uninstall>
      <configuration>
        <nodes>
          <node path="/configuration/dotnetnuke/clientcapability/providers/add[@name='WURFLClientCapabilityProvider']" action="remove" />
        nodes>

      configuration>

    uninstall>

  config>

component>

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9/23/2011 10:15 AM

Brilliance Business Solutions Team

Joined: 12/7/2006

Posts: 50

Re: Modify web.config when the module is installed

Thanks, Philip!

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9/24/2011 2:52 AM

cathal connolly

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Joined: 4/9/2003

Posts: 9676

Re: Modify web.config when the module is installed

FYI the wiki has full documentation for all the manifest settings - http://www.dotnetnuke.com/Resources/Wiki/loc/allpages/Cat/Manifest.aspx . The Config page gives a breakdown of how it works and a few further examples thougn I think the example Phil gave probably gave you all you needed to know - http://www.dotnetnuke.com/Resources/Wiki/Page/Manifest-Component-Installers-The-Config-Component.aspx

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10/24/2011 10:28 AM

Zurasson

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Joined: 1/23/2011

Posts: 59

Re: Modify web.config when the module is installed Modified By Zurasson on 10/24/2011 10:29:47 AM

Hi,

Does anybody have an idea of the exact syntax (or working example) of manifest file referencing external configuration file?

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