I have Windows Server 2003 (IIS 6.0) and Windows Server 2008 (IIS 7.0) servers, and I use MSBuild for deploying web applications.
I need to do a safe deploy, and do this:
Stop a website in IIS 6 (or an Application in IIS 7), not stop AppPool.
Check if the website is stopped; not running.
If the website is stopped, do another task for deploy.
Start the website IIS 6 (or Application in IIS 7),
How can I achieve this?
Update: Key for me: IIS6WebSite and IIS6AppPool (and for IIS7), do wait for stopped status when try Stop Website or AppPool?
When I execute Stop Action for Website (or Stop Action for AppPool), I need be sure 100% that Website is stopped, and then, and only if Website is Stopped, I can execute other targets.
By adding a reference to Microsoft.Web.Administration
(which can be found inX:\Windows\System32\inetsrv
, or your systems equivalent) you can achieve nice managed control of the situation with IIS7, as sampled below:
namespace StackOverflow
{
using System;
using System.Linq;
using Microsoft.Web.Administration;
class Program
{
static void Main(string[] args)
{
var server = new ServerManager();
var site = server.Sites.FirstOrDefault(s => s.Name == "Default Web Site");
if (site != null)
{
//stop the site...
site.Stop();
if (site.State == ObjectState.Stopped)
{
//do deployment tasks...
}
else
{
throw new InvalidOperationException("Could not stop website!");
}
//restart the site...
site.Start();
}
else
{
throw new InvalidOperationException("Could not find website!");
}
}
}
}
Obviously tailor this to your own requirements and through your deployment build script execute the resulting application.
Enjoy. :)
Write a script, e.g. PowerShell, which will stop/start IIS web site programmatically relying on command-line argument, e.g. start-stop.ps1 /stop 1
Put it into MsBuild script as a custom step
Check this to find out how to restart IIS AppPool
IIS WMI objects reference
So you have your answer above for IIS7. What you're missing is IIS6. So here you go. This is using a COM interop object as that's all that is available for IIS 6. Also, because it's in vb, you'll have to figure out how to convert it. http://www.codeproject.com/Articles/16686/A-C-alternative-for-the-Visual-Basic-GetObject-fun should get you on the right track. you could also create a vb project just for this code but that's kind of silly.
Dim WebServiceObj As Object
dim IisSiteId as Integer = 0
WebServiceObj = GetObject("IIS://localhost/W3SVC/" & IisSiteId)
WebServiceObj.Stop()
WebServiceObj.Start()