I have set up Commerce Server and other apps according to the Microsoft
Solution for Internet Business - Single Server Deployment GUide.

This is a fresh install of w2k3 with all service packs, and service packs /
updates installed on all software.

I am working in an environment with some other developers and I am trying to
get this environment set up.  They have a pup file that I am using to get
the code on this box.

When I install the pup, I do a custom unpack, and select the 4th option, Add
Web SErver to Existing Application Existing Site.  I select the existing
site, I select the application to unpack, and I get the following error::

~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~

Commerce Server Site Packager

IIS Configuration does not match settings in Commerce Server Application to
which you are adding a web server.

Commerce SErver application uses web site instance number -2 which does not
exist on this computer.

You must create an IIS web site with this instance number to add this
computer as a web server in this Commerce Server Application.

~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~

I have found some links that talk about how to resolve the situation for
instance numbers 0-9 but I have not seen any documentation about negative
two, except one usenet post on google groups which did not indicate any way
of solving the problem.

Here are the only (somewhat) applicable pieces of information I have found,
none of which have resolved my problem.

http://support.microsoft.com/default.aspx?kbid=332122

http://support.microsoft.com/defaul...kb;en-us;825329

http://support.microsoft.com/defaul...kb;en-us;313965

http://support.microsoft.com/defaul...kb;en-us;314281

http://groups.google.com/groups?hl=...r />
oe%3DUTF-
8%26sa%3DN%26tab%3Dwg

Any help is very appreciated!! I just reinstalled everything today and got
this same error again!!!

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I should add the following:

running this sql query :
SELECT * FROM ResourceProps
WHERE (s_PropertyName IN ('s_WebServerInstance', 's_LogType',
's_LogFilePeriod'))

yields:

s_LogFilePeriod                         1#^1#^1#^1#^1#^1#^1#^1#^1#^
s_LogType                                 1#^1#^1#^1#^1#^1#^1#^1#^1#^
s_WebServerInstance                 -2#^-2#^-2#^-2#^-2#^-2#^-2#^1#^1#^

( i think this is another site...)
s_LogFilePeriod             1#^
s_LogType                     1#^
s_WebServerInstance     1#^

So there's those negative twos.  I am reluctant to update the field because
I don't want to mess up everyone else's setup.  Nobody here has had any
problems like the one I'm having, all of them are on the same environment
and installed from the same PUP file.

The other thing I thought of trying is (in IIS mgr) save configuration as a
file, do find and replace on /LM/W3SVC/1234 and change to /LM/W3SVC/-2  just
so I can try to get an instance with -2 id.

Thanks for any help or suggestions!!







"chris" <flint1024.NO@SPAM.yahoo.com> wrote in message
news:e8CfXqbHEHA.3356@TK2MSFTNGP11.phx.gbl...
> I have set up Commerce Server and other apps according to the Microsoft
> Solution for Internet Business - Single Server Deployment GUide.
>
> This is a fresh install of w2k3 with all service packs, and service packs
/
> updates installed on all software.
>
> I am working in an environment with some other developers and I am trying
to
> get this environment set up.  They have a pup file that I am using to get
> the code on this box.
>
> When I install the pup, I do a custom unpack, and select the 4th option,
Add
> Web SErver to Existing Application Existing Site.  I select the existing
> site, I select the application to unpack, and I get the following error::
>
> ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
>
> Commerce Server Site Packager
>
> IIS Configuration does not match settings in Commerce Server Application
to
> which you are adding a web server.
>
> Commerce SErver application uses web site instance number -2 which does
not
> exist on this computer.
>
> You must create an IIS web site with this instance number to add this
> computer as a web server in this Commerce Server Application.
>
> ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
>
> I have found some links that talk about how to resolve the situation for
> instance numbers 0-9 but I have not seen any documentation about negative
> two, except one usenet post on google groups which did not indicate any
way
> of solving the problem.
>
> Here are the only (somewhat) applicable pieces of information I have
found,
> none of which have resolved my problem.
>
> http://support.microsoft.com/default.aspx?kbid=332122
>
> http://support.microsoft.com/defaul...kb;en-us;825329
>
> http://support.microsoft.com/defaul...kb;en-us;313965
>
> http://support.microsoft.com/defaul...kb;en-us;314281
>
>
http://groups.google.com/groups?hl=...r />
oe%3DUTF-
8%26sa%3DN%26tab%3Dwg
>
> Any help is very appreciated!! I just reinstalled everything today and got
> this same error again!!!
>
>
>

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We solved this problem, so I"m posting the solution, hopefully it can
benefit someone else unfortunate enough to get stuck with this.

You'll see the SQL statement below that resulted in a bunch of "-2" in the
s_WebServerInstance s_Value column... I ran an update, which updated that
row to change all of those "-2" to "1"... then the pup file installed just
fine.

In addition, the removal of the "-2" values did not appear to adversely
affect any of the other machines in the group.

Gool ol' closed-source, undocumented, black-box voodoo.




"chris" <flint1024.NO@SPAM.yahoo.com> wrote in message
news:eGsu7DkHEHA.828@TK2MSFTNGP12.phx.gbl...
> I should add the following:
>
> running this sql query :
> SELECT * FROM ResourceProps
> WHERE (s_PropertyName IN ('s_WebServerInstance', 's_LogType',
> 's_LogFilePeriod'))
>
> yields:
>
> s_LogFilePeriod                         1#^1#^1#^1#^1#^1#^1#^1#^1#^
> s_LogType                                 1#^1#^1#^1#^1#^1#^1#^1#^1#^
> s_WebServerInstance                 -2#^-2#^-2#^-2#^-2#^-2#^-2#^1#^1#^
>
> ( i think this is another site...)
> s_LogFilePeriod             1#^
> s_LogType                     1#^
> s_WebServerInstance     1#^
>
> So there's those negative twos.  I am reluctant to update the field
because
> I don't want to mess up everyone else's setup.  Nobody here has had any
> problems like the one I'm having, all of them are on the same environment
> and installed from the same PUP file.
>
> The other thing I thought of trying is (in IIS mgr) save configuration as
a
> file, do find and replace on /LM/W3SVC/1234 and change to /LM/W3SVC/-2
just
> so I can try to get an instance with -2 id.
>
> Thanks for any help or suggestions!!
>
>
>
>
>
>
>
> "chris" <flint1024.NO@SPAM.yahoo.com> wrote in message
> news:e8CfXqbHEHA.3356@TK2MSFTNGP11.phx.gbl... 
packs
> / 
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> to 
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> not 
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> found, 
>
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>
>

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