How to stop/start IIS 7 application through command line?

Question

I would like to create a batch file to start one IIS application, and stop another one.

How it can be done using command line?

How to combined it in batch file?

Solution

http://www.windowsnetworking.com/articles_tutorials/Configuring-IIS-7-command-line-Appcmdexe-Part1.html

Put this into a file with .bat extension.

@echo off

appcmd start sites "site1"
appcmd stop sites "site2"

Update

Just ensure that appcmd is available anywhere by adding %windir%\system32\inetsrv\ to the PATH environment variable of your system. Alternatively, you can use the full path to appcmd.exe in the batch file.