Associate an application pool to site with appcmd

Question

I want create a site by command line using appcmd.

How can I associate a specific application pool to site?

To create a site, I write in this way:

appcmd add site /name:"prova" bindings:http://localhost:8080 /physicalPath:c:\sites\prova

Solution 1

You can do this:

APPCMD.exe set app "prova/" /applicationPool:"YOUR_APP_POOL_NAME_HERE"

Note the trailing slash appended to prova, that's important.

For example if I wish to set the application pool for prova to the DefaultAppPool I would issue the following command:

APPCMD.exe set app "prova/" /applicationPool:"DefaultAppPool"

Picking up from Chris's comment below, if you have an existing application in your site, say /mybloggy and you wish to change application pool it belongs to then you'd issue the following:

APPCMD.exe set app "prova/mybloggy" /applicationPool:"DefaultAppPool"

Solution 2

Alternative syntax:

APPCMD.exe set site /site.name:"Site name" /[path='/'].applicationPool:"App Pool Name"

Found in Windows Server docs: https://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/library/cc732992(v=ws.10).aspx

Comments

[Abdul Rahman Kayali]

Command need one more forward slash before bindings like this appcmd add site /name:"prova" /bindings:http://localhost:8080 /physicalPath:c:\sites\prova

[Kiquenet]

I have apps under Default Web Site

[Chris]

The syntax for the app name is set app "<site name>/<app name>". This answer threw me off when I was trying to set the app pool for an application in my site.

[Kev]

@Chris - yes that would be the case where you already have an application under the site root, say /mybloggy. The example given sets the site root (/) application's app pool. I've updated my answer to make this clearer.

[Prakash]

Can you help to understand How to start the apps under default web site ?? I am able to start the default website in some cases I need to start the web application under the site manually so need to automate that using appcmd.exeto start the same.

[Majedur]

Good job done by @Kev!

[Kev]

@Majedur thank you!