The installation path: c:\Windows\System32\inetsrv contains main IIS excecutables: w3wp.exe, inetpub.exe as well as the administration console snippet.
In C:\Windows\system32 we can find scripts to administer IIS services:
iisapp.vbs
iisback.vbs
IIsCnfg.vbs
iisext.vbs
IIsFtp.vbs
IIsFtpdr.vbs
iismap.dll
iismui.dll
iisreset.exe
iisrstap.dll
iisRtl.dll
IIsScHlp.wsc
iissuba.dll
iisvdir.vbs
iisweb.vbs
In case you have problems executing the above commands, set the default script engine to cscript:
cscript //h:cscript //s
Metabase.xml is stored in C:\WINDOWS\system32\inetsrv
To create a useful trace session it's best to prepare a providers configuration file that will be useful in your situation. There are numerous providers that you can use (description in other file):
Provider GUID
-------------------------------------------------------------------------------
IIS: WWW Global {d55d3bc9-cba9-44df-827e-132d3a4596c2}
IIS: WWW Server {3a2a4e84-4c21-4981-ae10-3fda0d9b0f83}
IIS: Request Monitor {3b7b0b4b-4b01-44b4-a95e-3c755719aebf}
IIS: Active Server Pages (ASP) {06b94d9a-b15e-456e-a4ef-37c984a2cb4b}
IIS: WWW Isapi Extension {a1c2040e-8840-4c31-ba11-9871031a19ea}
ASP.NET Events {AFF081FE-0247-4275-9C4E-021F3DC1DA35}
IIS: IISADMIN Global {DC1271C2-A0AF-400f-850C-4E42FE16BE1C}
IIS: SSL Filter {1fbecc45-c060-4e7c-8a0e-0dbd6116181b}
HTTP Service Trace {dd5ef90a-6398-47a4-ad34-4dcecdef795f}
The steps described below are included in a script file: collect-iis-trace.bat.
Start sample tracing session (http://www.microsoft.com/technet/prodtechnol/WindowsServer2003/Library/IIS/b0f48764-9df2-4d4f-9746-2601e336f0ad.mspx?mfr=true):
C:\temp>logman start iiss -pf providers.guids -o C:\temp\iiss.etl -ets
Name: iiss
Age Limit: 15
Buffer Size: 8
Buffers Written: 1
Clock Type: System
Events Lost: 0
Flush Timer: 0
Buffers Free: 2
Buffers Lost: 0
File Mode: Sequential
File Name: C:\temp\iiss.etl
Logger Id: 3
Logger Thread Id: 2792
Maximum Buffers: 25
Maximum File Size: 0
Minimum Buffers: 3
Number of buffers: 3
Real Time Buffers Lost: 0
Provider Flags Level
-------------------------------------------------------------------------------
* "IIS: WWW Server" (IISAuthentication,IISSecurity,IISFilter,IISStaticFile,IIS
CGI,IISCompression,IISCache,IISAll) 0x05
{3A2A4E84-4C21-4981-AE10-3FDA0D9B0F83} 0xfffffffe 0x05
* "IIS: WWW Isapi Extension" 0x00000000 0x05
{A1C2040E-8840-4C31-BA11-9871031A19EA} 0x00000000 0x05
* "ASP.NET Events" (Infrastructure,Module,Page,AppServices) 0x05
{AFF081FE-0247-4275-9C4E-021F3DC1DA35} 0x0000000f 0x05
The command completed successfully.
providers.guid:
"IIS: WWW Server" 0xFFFFFFFE 5
"IIS: Active Server Pages (ASP)" 0 5
"IIS: WWW Isapi Extension" 0 5
"ASP.NET Events" 0xF 5
And stop trace session:
C:\temp>logman stop iiss -ets
The command completed successfully.
To trace only requests for a specific URL you need to first navigate to the %windir%\Inetpub\AdminScripts directory and issue:
adsutil.vbs set w3svc/n/TraceUriPrefix=path
where n is a page number and path represents a physical path to the requested file, eg.
C:\Inetpub\AdminScripts>iisweb /query
Connecting to server ...Done.
Site Name (Metabase Path) Status IP Port
============================================================================
Default Web Site (W3SVC/1) STARTED ALL 80
security test (W3SVC/1716510118) STARTED ALL 8090
Elmahr (W3SVC/893604675) STARTED ALL 8080
C:\Inetpub\AdminScripts>cscript adsutil.vbs set W3SVC/1716510118/TraceUriPrefix "c:\websites\sectest\Test.aspx"
Microsoft (R) Windows Script Host Version 5.6
Copyright (C) Microsoft Corporation 1996-2001. All rights reserved.
TraceUriPrefix : (LIST) "c:\websites\sectest\Test.aspx"
Now we need to modify the providers file to use just the URL filtering:
"IIS: WWW Server" UseUrlFilter 5
or 0xFF to enable all flags.
All events enlisted http://www.microsoft.com/technet/prodtechnol/WindowsServer2003/Library/IIS/757a3990-d8ae-4d72-94af-70fa46edc985.mspx?mfr=true
Events are logged by HTTP.sys.
- Troubleshooting IIS 6.0: http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/library/cc737109(v=ws.10).aspx
- Analyzing Log Files: http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/library/cc779746(v=ws.10).aspx
- Error logging in HTTP APIs: http://support.microsoft.com/?id=820729
- IISRESET Internals http://blogs.msdn.com/b/friis/archive/2013/10/08/iisreset-internals.aspx
You can configure multiple sites to listen on the same TCP port, but in that case you need to specify the host header value. Server based on this setting will serve the valid page for a request. To test this setting you may use wget, ex.:
> wget -d --spider -S --header "Host: test.diagnostyka.pl" http://172.20.11.110/
You can place app_offline.htm file in the application folder and when it becomes offline this page will be preseneted to the user (more here).
Listening currently running pools (with their PIDs):
C:\WINDOWS\system32>iisapp
W3WP.exe PID: 68372 AppPoolId: DefaultAppPool
Recycling a pool:
C:\WINDOWS\system32>iisapp /p 109048 /r
Connecting to server ...Done.
Application pool 'Default .Net4' recycled successfully.
Listening configured websites:
iisweb /query | findstr test
> iisweb /query
Connecting to server ...Done.
Site Name (Metabase Path) Status IP Port Host
==============================================================================
Default Web Site (W3SVC/1) STARTED ALL 80 N/A
Developers Community (W3SVC/100122359) STARTED ALL 80 test.pl
List virtual directories defined for a site:
C:\>iisvdir /query "test"
Connecting to server ...Done.
Alias Physical Root
==============================================================================
/pictures \\test\test1
/writeenableddir \\test\test2
riteenableddir
Export configuration to a xml file. Then replace all website ids that exist in the file:
PS temp> New-WebSiteFromConfigurationFile -ComputerName test-server -ConfigFile C:\temp\test.xml -NewWebsiteId 446926682 -ServerBinding "172.20.0.2:80:" -ApplicationName "test.pl" -ErrorAction Stop -AppPoolId test-pool
based on http://blog.codeville.net/2008/07/04/options-for-deploying-aspnet-mvc-to-iis-6/