When programatically creating a new IIS web site, how can I add it to an existing application pool?
- by Ian Robinson
I have successfully automated the process of creating a new IIS website, however the code I've written doesn't care about application pools, it just gets added to DefaultAppPool. However I'd like to add this newly created site to an existing application pool.
Here is the code I'm using to create the new website.
var w3Svc = new DirectoryEntry(string.Format("IIS://{0}/w3svc", webserver));
var newsite = new object[] { serverComment, new object[] { serverBindings }, homeDirectory };
var websiteId = w3Svc.Invoke("CreateNewSite", newsite);
site.Invoke("Start", null);
site.CommitChanges();
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Although this is not directly related to the question, here are some sample values being used above. This might help someone understand exactly what the code above is doing more easily.
webServer: "localhost"
serverComment: "testing.dev"
serverBindings: ":80:testing.dev"
homeDirectory: "c:\inetpub\wwwroot\testing\"
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If I know the name of the application pool that I'd like this web site to be in, how can I find it and add this site to it?
<update 2
I've added the following based on Mark's answer below.
var appPool = new DirectoryEntry(string.Format("IIS://{0}/w3svc/AppPools/{1}", webServer, appPoolName));
site.Properties["AppPoolId"].Value = appPool;
I seem to have moved passed the "RPC" error message I was initially receiving. Now this is the error message I'm receiving:
Error:
System.Runtime.InteropServices.COMException
(0x8000500C): Exception from HRESULT:
0x8000500C at
System.DirectoryServices.Interop.UnsafeNativeMethods.IAds.PutEx(Int32
lnControlCode, String bstrName, Object
vProp) at
System.DirectoryServices.PropertyValueCollection.set_Value(Object
value) at
ProvisionIISWebsite.Query.CreateWebsite(String
webServer, String serverComment,
String serverBindings, String
homeDirectory, String appPoolName) in
C:\Users\irobinson\My
Projects\ProvisionIISWebsite\Query.cs:line
104 at
ProvisionIISWebsite.Query.Handle_GetData(EngineBase&
caller, Boolean isSubQuery, String
query, String filterField, String
filterText, Debugger& debugWriter,
Boolean isRendered, Int32 timeout,
String customConnection) in
C:\Users\irobinson\My
Projects\ProvisionIISWebsite\Query.cs:line
36
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