Question

I am trying to create a PowerShell script that creates a new IIS 6 web site and sets things like App Pool, Wildcard application maps, ASP.NET version, etc.

After extensive search on the Internet I found a script that allows me to create a new Web Site but not to modify all the properties I need.

$newWebsiteName = "WebSiteName"  
$newWebsiteIpAddress = "192.168.1.100"  
$newWebSiteDirPath = "c:\inetpub\wwwroot\WebSiteName"  
$iisWebService  = Get-WmiObject -namespace "root\MicrosoftIISv2" 
                                -class "IIsWebService"  
$bindingClass = [wmiclass]'root\MicrosoftIISv2:ServerBinding'  
$bindings = $bindingClass.CreateInstance()  
$bindings.IP = $newWebsiteIpAddress  
$bindings.Port = "80"  
$bindings.Hostname = ""  
$result = $iisWebService.CreateNewSite
               ($newWebsiteName, $bindings, $newWebSiteDirPath)  

Any help on how to expand example above is greatly appreciated.

Answer 1

The $result object contains the path to the newly created IIsWebServer object. You can get access to the virtual directory, where you can configure more properties, by doing the following:

$w3svcID = $result.ReturnValue -replace "IIsWebServer=", ""
$w3svcID = $w3svcID -replace "'", ""
$vdirName = $w3svcID + "/ROOT";

$vdir = gwmi -namespace "root\MicrosoftIISv2" 
             -class "IISWebVirtualDir" 
             -filter "Name = '$vdirName'";
# do stuff with $vdir
$vdir.Put();