IIS Commands

Internet Information Server (IIS) can be managed by IIS management console and also by command line interface (CLI). And, I'm big of CLI and try to achieve tasks from CLI, which I could do from UI. CLI is pretty useful when you want to do automation.

Today, I'll share how to control IIS from CLI:

• Open command prompt and Run as administrator.
  
• Execute below command:
  
  cd %WINDIR%\system32\inetsrv
  
• List all sites:
  
  appcmd.exe list site
  
  Output
  
  
  
• Stop site:
  
  appcmd.exe stop site "Default Web Site"
  
  Output
  
  
  
• Start site:
  
  appcmd.exe start site "Default Web Site"
  
  Output
  
  
  
  Similarly you can do for AppPools, e.g.
  
• List all app pools
  
  appcmd.exe list apppool
  
  Output
  
  you can try at your machine.
  
• Recycle app pool
  
  appcmd recycle apppool /appppool.name:"DefaltAppPool"
  
  Output
  
  you can try at your machine.

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