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David Levine
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Aug 27, 2019

Manage IIS Settings via ApplicationHost.Config vs. Web.Config

I have an IIS setup where multiple websites exist that all share the same document root. Each of the websites have a specific default document though.  This has been managed in the past by manually ...
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    David Levine
    Brass Contributor
    Aug 27, 2019

    Dave Patrick 

     

    Thanks for the reply Dave;
    So, I am looking at the following:
    https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/previous-versions/windows/it-pro/windows-server-2012-R2-and-2012/jj635852(v=ws.11)
    and
    https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/iis/configuration/system.webserver/defaultdocument/

     

    It seems the syntax I want to specifically write the config to applicationHost.config is /COMMIT:APPHOST but I cant seem to figure out the rest of the syntax... keep getting errors:

     

    PS C:\Windows\system32\inetsrv> .\appcmd.exe set config "testsite2" /section:defaultDocument /enabled:true /+files.[value='site2-home.html'] /commit:APPHOST
ERROR ( message:Malformed collection indexer; format is [@position,name='value',name2='value2',...]. The @position specifier is optional, and be '@start', '@end', or '@N' where N is a numeric index i
nto the collection. )
PS C:\Windows\system32\inetsrv>
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        David Levine
        Brass Contributor
        Aug 28, 2019

        Dave Patrick 

        Yep - that did it...

        PS C:\Windows\system32\inetsrv> .\appcmd.exe set config "testsite2" /section:defaultDocument /enabled:true "/+files.[value='site2-home.html']" /commit:APPHOST
Applied configuration changes to section "system.webServer/defaultDocument" for "MACHINE/WEBROOT/APPHOST/testsite2" at configuration commit path "MACHINE/WEBROOT/APPHOST"

         

        Thank you so much!! 

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