How to find IIS7 SiteID using site name on Windows 2008 using appcmd or other util?

Question

I am trying to find an IIS7 site ID using site name using appcmd or other utility but have not found any way to achieve it.

Toby

For those of us who likes the GUI utils - The IIS manager - Advanced settings - ID – Accommodative

Answer 1

The following command returns site ID:

%systemroot%\system32\inetsrv\APPCMD list site <SiteName>

Example output:

SITE "Default Web Site" (id:1,bindings:http/*:80:default.local,state:Started)
SITE "My Site" (id:2,bindings:http/*:80:my.local,state:Started)

Toby

You can get a specific property of the Site (id, bindings, state) by using the /text:{property} argument. For example, to get just the ID (returns simply "1"): APPCMD list site "Default Web Site" \text:id – Outdoors

this worked for me on iis 6, with the only exception being that I had to run the command prompt as an administrator – Intercommunion

Answer 2

The easiest way is to load up IIS Manager and click on the "Sites" folder. There should be a column called "ID" in the list shown in the Features View pane, and that's your Site ID.

Verecund

Dave - This is certainly the easiest and instant display of the site ID right in front of us when the "Sites" main folder is clicked :) Excellent. – Superintendent

Answer 3

You may also give a try to Powershell get-website commandlet. Without args it will list all sites together with IDs.

Neanderthal

Answer 4

Here is the Powershell-way of doing it:

Get-Website -Name "Default Web Site" | Select -ExpandProperty ID

(Replace Default Web Site with your site's name.)

Buncombe

Answer 5

Save this a XXX.VBS

dim lookfor: lookfor = lcase(WScript.Arguments(0))
dim ws: set ws = getobject("IIS://localhost/w3svc")
for each site in ws
    if site.class = "IIsWebServer" then
        if lcase(site.ServerComment) = lookfor then
            wscript.echo "id=" & site.Name & ", name=" & site.ServerComment
        end if
    end if
next

then from the command line

XXX.vbs site.tofind.com

or

cscript XXX.vbs site.tofind.com

Desilva