How to find IIS7 SiteID using site name on Windows 2008 using appcmd or other util?

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I am trying to find an IIS7 site ID using site name using appcmd or other utility but have not found any way to achieve it.

For those of us who likes the GUI utils - The IIS manager - Advanced settings - ID — joeriks, Apr 05 '14 at 06:27

score 29 · Accepted Answer · edited Oct 23 '12 at 20:12

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The following command returns site ID:

%systemroot%\system32\inetsrv\APPCMD list site <SiteName>

Example output:

SITE "Default Web Site" (id:1,bindings:http/*:80:default.local,state:Started)
SITE "My Site" (id:2,bindings:http/*:80:my.local,state:Started)

edited Oct 23 '12 at 20:12

Milan Gardian

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answered Sep 06 '12 at 08:56

anil

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You can get a specific property of the Site (id, bindings, state) by using the /text:{property} argument. For example, to get just the ID (returns simply "1"): APPCMD list site "Default Web Site" \text:id – Alejandro Moreno May 27 '13 at 22:56
this worked for me on iis 6, with the only exception being that I had to run the command prompt as an administrator – Troy Knapp Apr 26 '16 at 13:46

score 16 · Answer 2 · answered Oct 06 '16 at 13:10

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The easiest way is to load up IIS Manager and click on the "Sites" folder. There should be a column called "ID" in the list shown in the Features View pane, and that's your Site ID.

answered Oct 06 '16 at 13:10

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Dave - This is certainly the easiest and instant display of the site ID right in front of us when the "Sites" main folder is clicked :) Excellent. – Martin Sansone - MiOEE Jun 09 '17 at 11:42

score 5 · Answer 3 · answered Mar 31 '15 at 14:50

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You may also give a try to Powershell get-website commandlet. Without args it will list all sites together with IDs.

answered Mar 31 '15 at 14:50

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score 2 · Answer 4 · answered Feb 21 '19 at 10:42

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Here is the Powershell-way of doing it:

Get-Website -Name "Default Web Site" | Select -ExpandProperty ID

(Replace Default Web Site with your site's name.)

answered Feb 21 '19 at 10:42

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score 1 · Answer 5 · answered Sep 05 '12 at 10:31

Save this a XXX.VBS

dim lookfor: lookfor = lcase(WScript.Arguments(0))
dim ws: set ws = getobject("IIS://localhost/w3svc")
for each site in ws
    if site.class = "IIsWebServer" then
        if lcase(site.ServerComment) = lookfor then
            wscript.echo "id=" & site.Name & ", name=" & site.ServerComment
        end if
    end if
next

then from the command line

XXX.vbs site.tofind.com

or

cscript XXX.vbs site.tofind.com

How to find IIS7 SiteID using site name on Windows 2008 using appcmd or other util?

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