Question

is it possible to manage IIS web applications with NAnt? For example stop or start it?

Answer 1

Maybe you can use exec task to execute

iisreset -stop iisreset -start 

EDIT : And this VBS might help for stopping/starting WebApplications under IIS

Here is the accespted solution to stop a website with nant task on IIS :

<target name='stopSite'>    <exec program='cscript.exe'>      <arg value='C:\windows\system32\iisweb.vbs' />      <arg value='/stop' />      <arg value='test' />    </exec>  </target>