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Kjensen
Asked: 2011-10-09 06:16:16 +0800 CST

How do I restart a single website in IIS7+ using commandline?

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How do I restart a single website in IIS7+ using commandline only?

Same functionality as the circled menu item in the image - but from the commandline.

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Iisreset does not have any options to deal with individual sites, and I found some ancient references to Iisweb.vbs, which seems to be outdated.

command-line-interface iis iis-7 iis-7.5

4 Answers

  1. Best Answer

    What you are looking for is the appcmd command. Take a look at its TechNet manual.

    To list your sites out:

    %windir%\system32\inetsrv\appcmd list site

    To restart your site, stop it and then start it:

    appcmd start site /site.name:string

    or

    appcmd stop site /site.name:string

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  2. I'd personally suggest not stopping and starting sites, but recycling the associated Application Pool.

    This should be closer to imperceptible for end users, while a stop/start will probably produce 503s while the site's down.

    APPCMD LIST WP

    APPCMD RECYCLE WP

    are the command-line versions of this...

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  3. I know this is an old thread and the OP specifically asked for IIS7 and a command line, but since I stumbled here and there were a few recent comments I thought I'd save someone the trouble of searching further for doing the same in IIS10 with PowerShell. This is what works very simply for me to stop and restart a website from a PowerShell Admin prompt:

    (replace 'example.com' with your website name)

    PS C:\Users\Administrator> Import-Module WebAdministration 
PS C:\Users\Administrator> Stop-WebSite example.com
PS C:\Users\Administrator> Start-WebSite example.com

    Hope this helps someone.

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  4. List your existing web sites with:

    C:\> iisweb.vbs /query

    and you can then restart a specific website by executing:

    C:\> iisweb.vbs /stop <website> && iisweb.vbs /start <website>
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