How best to install MVC 3 on a server?

Question

Now that MVC 3 Tools Update has been released, that\'s all I see on the Web Platform Installer -- I no longer see MVC 3? Is this because the Tools Update is essentially MVC

Answer 1

You could also use Web Platform Installer from the command line:

webpicmd /install /Products:MVC3Runtime /log:webpi.log /accepteula /SuppressReboot

If your servers don't have internet access, you can use the offline flag from a machine which does have access to download a copy of the required install files.

So your flow would be as follows:

Prepare Cached Version of Installers

webpicmd /Offline /Products:MVC3Runtime /log:webpi.log /Path:"%~dp0wbpiCache"

Install from cache (copy folder structure to target machine)

webpicmd /install /Products:MVC3Runtime /log:webpi.log /accepteula /SuppressReboot /XML:"%~dp0wbpiCache"