Site Packager Name and Size Restrictions

This topic lists the name and size restrictions for Site Packager.

Site names
- To avoid unpacking errors, site names cannot contain the following special characters:
  
  /, ?, &, \, <, >, :, |, #, @, %, and '
- Do not specify a site name of more than 127 single-byte or double-byte characters.
- Do not name your site "Commerce." This is a reserved OLAP database name. Naming your site "Commerce" could cause the overwriting of your OLAP database the next time you unpack a site.
Virtual names
- To avoid IIS errors, virtual directory names cannot contain the following special characters:
  
  #, @, %, and '
- Site Packager unpacks each application under the home directory of its corresponding IIS Web site. Within the home directory, Site Packager creates a subfolder using the IIS virtual directory name of the application.
Application names
- You cannot give your applications the following names:
  
  Campaigns
  
  Transactions
  
  Product Catalog
  
  Direct Mail
  
  Predictor
  
  App Default Config
  
  BDSecurity
  
  Biz Data Service
  
  Transaction Config
  
  Site Data Warehouse
  
  Global Data Warehouse
  
  Site CS Authentication
- Application names cannot contain the ‘\' character.
- If you want to unpack the application to the root of the Web site, you can use the ‘/' character or leave the IIS path field blank.

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