I am writing an installer class for my web service. In many cases when I use WMI (e.g. when creating virtual directories) I have to know the siteId to provide the correct metabasePath to the site, e.g.:
metabasePath is of the form "IIS://<servername>/<service>/<siteID>/Root[/<vdir>]"
for example "IIS://localhost/W3SVC/1/Root"
How can I look it up programmatically in C#, based on the name of the site (e.g. for "Default Web Site")?
Here is how to get it by name. You can modify as needed.
public int GetWebSiteId(string serverName, string websiteName)
{
int result = -1;
DirectoryEntry w3svc = new DirectoryEntry(
string.Format("IIS://{0}/w3svc", serverName));
foreach (DirectoryEntry site in w3svc.Children)
{
if (site.Properties["ServerComment"] != null)
{
if (site.Properties["ServerComment"].Value != null)
{
if (string.Compare(site.Properties["ServerComment"].Value.ToString(),
websiteName, false) == 0)
{
result = int.Parse(site.Name);
break;
}
}
}
}
return result;
}
You can search for a site by inspecting the ServerComment
property belonging to children of the metabase path IIS://Localhost/W3SVC
that have a SchemaClassName
of IIsWebServer
.
The following code demonstrates two approaches:
string siteToFind = "Default Web Site";
// The Linq way
using (DirectoryEntry w3svc1 = new DirectoryEntry("IIS://Localhost/W3SVC"))
{
IEnumerable<DirectoryEntry> children =
w3svc1.Children.Cast<DirectoryEntry>();
var sites =
(from de in children
where
de.SchemaClassName == "IIsWebServer" &&
de.Properties["ServerComment"].Value.ToString() == siteToFind
select de).ToList();
if(sites.Count() > 0)
{
// Found matches...assuming ServerComment is unique:
Console.WriteLine(sites[0].Name);
}
}
// The old way
using (DirectoryEntry w3svc2 = new DirectoryEntry("IIS://Localhost/W3SVC"))
{
foreach (DirectoryEntry de in w3svc2.Children)
{
if (de.SchemaClassName == "IIsWebServer" &&
de.Properties["ServerComment"].Value.ToString() == siteToFind)
{
// Found match
Console.WriteLine(de.Name);
}
}
}
This assumes that the ServerComment
property has been used (IIS MMC forces its used) and is unique.
public static ManagementObject GetWebServerSettingsByServerComment(string serverComment)
{
ManagementObject returnValue = null;
ManagementScope iisScope = new ManagementScope(@"\\localhost\root\MicrosoftIISv2", new ConnectionOptions());
iisScope.Connect();
if (iisScope.IsConnected)
{
ObjectQuery settingQuery = new ObjectQuery(String.Format(
"Select * from IIsWebServerSetting where ServerComment = '{0}'", serverComment));
ManagementObjectSearcher searcher = new ManagementObjectSearcher(iisScope, settingQuery);
ManagementObjectCollection results = searcher.Get();
if (results.Count > 0)
{
foreach (ManagementObject manObj in results)
{
returnValue = manObj;
if (returnValue != null)
{
break;
}
}
}
}
return returnValue;
}
private static string FindWebSiteByName(string serverName, string webSiteName)
{
DirectoryEntry w3svc = new DirectoryEntry("IIS://" + serverName + "/W3SVC");
foreach (DirectoryEntry site in w3svc.Children)
{
if (site.SchemaClassName == "IIsWebServer"
&& site.Properties["ServerComment"] != null
&& site.Properties["ServerComment"].Value != null
&& string.Equals(webSiteName, site.Properties["ServerComment"].Value.ToString(), StringComparison.OrdinalIgnoreCase))
{
return site.Name;
}
}
return null;
}
Maybe not the best way, but here is a way :
- loop through all the sites under "IIS://servername/service"
- for each of the sites check if the name is "Default Web Site" in your case
- if true then you have your site id
Example :
Dim oSite As IADsContainer
Dim oService As IADsContainer
Set oService = GetObject("IIS://localhost/W3SVC")
For Each oSite In oService
If IsNumeric(oSite.Name) Then
If oSite.ServerComment = "Default Web Site" Then
Debug.Print "Your id = " & oSite.Name
End If
End If
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