Powershell : How to create IIS 6 Virtual Directory/Web application under a Subfolder

Question

I am trying to create a Web application/VirtualDirectory under a specific subfolder of a IIS 6 website using Powershell as show below:

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Answer 1

Give this a try. It connects to the root of website 1 (Default Website). Creates a IIsWebDirectory object for the gadgets folder and assigns it an application pool.

$root = [adsi] "IIS://localhost/W3SVC/1/ROOT"
$vDir = $root.Create("IIsWebDirectory", "SubDirectory\Gadgets")
$vDir.AppCreate3(2, "DefaultAppPool", $false)
$vDir.AppFriendlyName = "Andy Test"
$vDir.SetInfo()

If you need to connect to a website other than the default web site you can get the ID of the website with this command:

([adsi] "IIS://localhost/W3SVC").psbase.Children | ? {$_.psbase.schemaclassname -eq "IIsWebServer" } | select Path, ServerComment

Output:

Path                         ServerComment
----                         -------------
IIS://localhost/W3SVC/1      {Default Web Site}
IIS://localhost/W3SVC/2      {WHS site}

Answer 2

An alternative solution to create a virtual directory in IIS 6.0 through scripting, which doesn't involve PowerShell, is to use the iisvdir.vbs script:

SET webSiteName=Test
SET virtualDirName=subdirectory/gadgets
SET virtualDirHomePath=C:\InetPub\Subdirectory\Gadgets

cscript %SystemRoot%\system32\iisvdir.vbs /create %webSiteName% %virtualDirName% %virtualDirHomePath%

Note that the virtual directory path in virtualDirName is specified using forward slashes.

You can also list the virtual directories in a specific path using the same iisvdir.vbs script:

cscript %SystemRoot%\system32\iisvdir.vbs /query %webSiteName%/%virtualDirName%