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Asked: 2026-05-10T22:58:25+00:00

I asked this Can I automate creating a .NET web application in IIS? a

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I asked this Can I automate creating a .NET web application in IIS? a little ago, and got solutions for IIS 6 and IIS 7:

  • IIS6 : iisweb /create C:\Rome 'My Vacations' /d www.reskit.com /dontstart
  • IIS7 : %windir%\system32\inetsrv\AppCmd ADD SITE /name:MyNewSite /bindings:http/*:81: /physicalPath:c:\inetpub\mynewsite

but I’ve just got back to it the actual project, and it turns out that is I need to deploy on (shock-horror) IIS 5.1

Has anyone got any ideas?

To make it clear:

I want to use IIS, but I want to create the web application automatically (ideally batch file) without opening the IIS Microsoft Management Console (MMC)

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  1. You can access the IIS 5.1 metabase in VBScript, and this allows you to create a virtual directory. For example, this should set up a Virtual Directory called ‘TestDir’ that points to the folder C:\inetpub\wwwroot\Test

    strComputer = 'localhost' strVdirName = 'TestDir' strVdirPath = 'C:\Inetpub\wwwroot\Test'  set objIIS = GetObject('IIS://' & strComputer & '/W3SVC/1') set objWebSite = objIIS.GetObject('IISWebVirtualDir','Root') set objVdir = objWebSite.Create('IISWebVirtualDir',strVdirName) objVdir.AccessRead = True objVdir.Path = strVdirPath objVdir.AppCreate (True) objVdir.SetInfo WScript.Echo 'Successfully created virtual directory: ' & objVdir.Name
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