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glasnt
Asked: 2011-05-16 21:15:09 +0800 CST

Can you get the W3SVC identifier from IIS6 after a site is deleted?

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Since the site has been deleted, the IIS > Web Sites listing to get the identifier doesn't work (since it's not there)

Is there another way to get the identifier?

I have a multitude of LogFiles in system32, all listed by W3SVC ID, but none contain any identifying information about the website it's logging, so I have to go by ID.

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2 Answers

  1. Best Answer

    Found the answer by running this cool VBS script on Stack Overflow

    https://stackoverflow.com/questions/1868108/get-iis-web-site-identifier-programmatically

    I had to get help identifying the code source, but it worked, and I'm adding it to my 'Tools to fix IIS shit with' ^_^

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  2. Two options come to mind:

    • Recreate the site name exactly - the site identifier is (from memory) a short hash of the name

    • Fish the old metabase out of the System32\InetSrv\History folder, where the automatic backups are stored.

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