How do I change the physical path of web site in IIS7 with APPCMD?

Question

I need to change the physical path of a web site through the command line via the appcmd.exe tool, but I can\'t figure out the syntax. Can someone help?

Answer 1

And in case you are trying to change the physical path of a Web Application, here is an example changing the Web Application "Spockadoodle" that is created under Web Site "Default Web Site" to have the physical path "C:_junk".

appcmd set app /app.name:"Default Web Site/spockadoodle"  -[path='/'].physicalPath:c:\_junk

I figured this out by running the command:

appcmd set app /app.name:"Default Web Site/spockadoodle"  /?

and in the output I observed

ERROR (message:-path
-applicationPool
-enabledProtocols
...
-[path='string'].physicalPath

and prior to that, in the output of the command

appcmd set apps /?

the output mentioned:

Example: appcmd set app "Default Web Site/" /enabledProtocols:http

Sets the "enabledProtocols" property of the application "Default Web
Site/".

So, from the example citing how to set "enabledProtocols", I substituted the example of [path='string'].physicalPath

To know the value for the attribute expression [path='string'] I observed in the output of the command

appcmd list app "Default Web Site/spockadoodle" /config

output shows that the Web App Spockadoodle has path attribtue value "/":

Also, I figured out to use the /app.name identifier from examples on the website http://www.iis.net/learn/get-started/getting-started-with-iis/getting-started-with-appcmdexe