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How do I restart a single website in IIS7+ using commandline only?

Same functionality as the circled menu item in the image - but from the commandline.

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Iisreset does not have any options to deal with individual sites, and I found some ancient references to Iisweb.vbs, which seems to be outdated.

Kjensen
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What you are looking for is the appcmd command. Take a look at its TechNet manual.

To list your sites out:

For 32-bit OS: %windir%\system32\inetsrv\appcmd list site

For 64-bit OS: %windir%\syswow64\inetsrv\appcmd list site

To restart your site, stop it and then start it:

appcmd start site /site.name:string

or

appcmd stop site /site.name:string

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Wesley
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I know this is an old thread and the OP specifically asked for IIS7 and a command line, but since I stumbled here and there were a few recent comments I thought I'd save someone the trouble of searching further for doing the same in IIS10 with PowerShell. This is what works very simply for me to stop and restart a website from a PowerShell Admin prompt:

(replace 'example.com' with your website name)

PS C:\Users\Administrator> Import-Module WebAdministration 
PS C:\Users\Administrator> Stop-WebSite example.com
PS C:\Users\Administrator> Start-WebSite example.com

Hope this helps someone.

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HumbleBeginnings
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I'd personally suggest not stopping and starting sites, but recycling the associated Application Pool.

This should be closer to imperceptible for end users, while a stop/start will probably produce 503s while the site's down.

APPCMD LIST WP

APPCMD RECYCLE WP

are the command-line versions of this...

TristanK
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List your existing web sites with:

C:\> iisweb.vbs /query

and you can then restart a specific website by executing:

C:\> iisweb.vbs /stop <website> && iisweb.vbs /start <website>
quanta
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