Rename Applications and Virtual Directories in IIS7

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Rename Applications and Virtual Directories in IIS7

September 2, 2010 — Brian Grinstead

Have you ever wondered why the box to change the name or “Alias” on an application or virtual directory is greyed out (see screenshot below)? I found a way to change the name without recreating all your settings. It uses the built in administration commands in IIS7, called appcmd.

Renaming Applications In IIS7

Open a command prompt to see all of your applications.

1 C:> %systemroot%\system32\inetsrv\appcmd list app

2

3 APP "Default Web Site/OldApplicationName"

4 APP "Default Web Site/AnotherApplication"
Run a command like this to change your “OldApplicationName” path to “NewApplicationName”. Now you can use http://localhost/newapplicationname

1 C:> %systemroot%\system32\inetsrv\appcmd set app "Default Web Site/OldApplicationName" -path:/NewApplicationName

2

3 APP object "Default Web Site/OldApplicationName" changed

Renaming Virtual Directories In IIS7

Open a command prompt to see all of your virtual directories.

    
                1
                C:> %systemroot%\system32\inetsrv\appcmd list vdir
            
                2
                 
                3
                    VDIR "Default Web Site/OldApplicationName/Images" (physicalPath:\\server\images)
            
                4
                    VDIR "Default Web Site/OldApplicationName/Data/Config" (physicalPath:\\server\config)

We want to rename /Images to /Images2 and /Data/Config to /Data/Config2. Here are the example commands:

    
                1
                C:> %systemroot%\system32\inetsrv\appcmd set vdir "Default Web Site/OldApplicationName/Images" -path:/Images2
            
                2
                 
                3
                    VDIR object "Default Web Site/OldApplicationName/Images" changed
            
                4
                 
                5
                C:> %systemroot%\system32\inetsrv\appcmd set vdir "Default Web Site/OldApplicationName/Data/Config" -path:/Data/Config2
            
                6
                 
                7
                    VDIR object "Default Web Site/OldApplicationName/Data/Config" changed

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Comments on this post: Rename Applications and Virtual Directories in IIS7

# re: Rename Applications and Virtual Directories in IIS7

Thanks, that was a very good tutorial.
keep up the good work.

Left by הפקת אירועים on Feb 20, 2011 1:16 AM

appcmd list appcmd = syntax error
+ other lines also don't work

Please copy/paste your commands in to see they do not work then fix them or remove this publication so it doesn't waste other peoples time as it has done mine

Left by james blunt on May 06, 2011 1:37 PM