Build a Classic ASP Website on IIS

Type the following command at a command prompt or into a script:

Start /w pkgmgr /iu:IIS-WebServerRole;IIS-WebServer;IIS-CommonHttpFeatures;IIS-StaticContent;IIS-DefaultDocument;IIS-DirectoryBrowsing;IIS-HttpErrors;IIS-ApplicationDevelopment;IIS-ASP;IIS-ISAPIExtensions;IIS-HealthAndDiagnostics;IIS-HttpLogging;IIS-LoggingLibraries;IIS-RequestMonitor;IIS-Security;IIS-RequestFiltering;IIS-HttpCompressionStatic;IIS-WebServerManagementTools;IIS-ManagementConsole;WAS-WindowsActivationService;WAS-ProcessModel;WAS-NetFxEnvironment;WAS-ConfigurationAPI

Use the following syntax at the command prompt or in a script:

Note
For this syntax to work, you either must be in the following directory, or have the directory in your path: %windir%\system32\inetsrv

appcmd add site /name:string /id:uint /physicalPath:string /bindings:string

The variable name string is the name, and the variable id uint is the unsigned integer that you want to assign to the site. The variables name string and id uint are the only variables that are required when you add a site in Appcmd.exe.

Note
When you add a site without specifying the values for the bindings and physicalPath attributes, the site will not be able to start.

The variable physicalPath string is the path of the site content in the file system.

The variable bindings string contains information that is used to access the site, and it should be in the form of protocol/IP_address:port:host_header. For example, a web site binding is the combination of protocol, IP address, port, and host header. A binding of http/*:85: enables a web site to listen for HTTP requests on port 85 for all IP addresses and domain names (also known as host headers or host names). On the other hand, a binding of http/*:85:marketing.contoso.com enables a web site to listen for HTTP requests on port 85 for all IP addresses and the domain name marketing.contoso.com.

To add a web site named contoso with an ID of 2 that has content in c:\contoso, and that listens for HTTP requests on port 85 for all IP addresses and a domain name of marketing.contoso.com, type the following at the command prompt, and then press ENTER:

appcmd add site /name:contoso /id:2 /physicalPath:c:\contoso /bindings:http/*:85:marketing.contoso.com

Specify default character set

To specify the default character set for an application, use the following syntax:

appcmd set config /section:asp /codePage:integerRange

The variable integerRange is the default character set. For example, to set the code page to a Latin character set used in American English and many European alphabets, type the following at the command prompt, and then press Enter:

appcmd set config /section:asp /codePage:1252

Enable or disable buffering

To enable or disable buffering of ASP application output, use the following syntax:

appcmd set config /section:asp /bufferingOn:True|False

True enables buffering whereas False disables buffering. The default value is True.

Enable or disable HTTP 1.1 chunked transfer encoding

To enable HTTP 1.1 chunked transfer encoding for the World Wide Web publishing service, use the following syntax:

appcmd set config /section:asp /enableChunkedEncoding:True|False

True enables HTTP 1.1 chunked transfer encoding whereas False disables HTTP 1.1 chunked transfer encoding. The default value is True.

Enable or disable HTML fallback

To enable or disable HTML fallback, use the following syntax:

appcmd set config /section:asp /enableASPHTMLFallback:True|False

True causes an .htm file that has the same name as the requested .asp file, if it exists, to be sent instead of the .asp file if the request is rejected because of a full request queue. The default value is True.

Enable or disable parent paths

To enable or disable paths relative to the current directory or above the current directory, use the following syntax:

appcmd set config /section:asp /enableParentPaths:True|False

True sets ASP pages to allow paths relative to the current directory or above the current directory. The default value is True.

Set client connection test interval

To set a time interval after which ASP will check to see whether the client is still connected before executing a request, use the following syntax:

appcmd set config /section:asp /queueConnectionTestTime:timeSpan

The variable timeSpan sets the time interval (hh:mm:ss) after which ASP checks to see whether the client is still connected before executing a request. The default value is 00:00:03.

Set maximum requesting entity body limit

To specify the maximum number of bytes allowed in the entity body of an ASP request, use the following syntax:

appcmd set config /section:asp /maxRequestEntityAllowed:int

The variable int represents the maximum number of bytes allowed in the body of an ASP request. The default value is 200000 bytes.

Set request queue length

To specify the maximum number of concurrent ASP requests allowed into the queue, use the following syntax:

appcmd set config /section:asp /requestQueueMax:int

The variable int represents the maximum number of concurrent ASP requests that are allowed into the request queue. The default value is 3000.

Set request queue time-out

To specify the period that an ASP request can wait in the request queue, use the following syntax:

appcmd set config /section:asp /queueTimeout:timeSpan

The variable timeSpan represents the maximum time (hh:mm:ss) that an ASP request can wait in the request queue. The default value is 00:00:00.

Specify response buffering limit

To control the maximum number of bytes that an ASP page can write to the response buffer before a flush occurs, use the following syntax:

appcmd set config /section:asp /bufferingLimit:int

The variable int represents the maximum size, in bytes, of the ASP buffer. The default value is 4194304 bytes.

Set script time-out

To specify the default length of time that ASP pages let a script run before terminating the script and writing an event to the Windows Event Log, use the following syntax:

appcmd set config /section:asp /scriptTimeout:timeSpan

The variable timeSpan represents the maximum time (hh:mm:ss) that an ASP request can run before an event is written to the Windows Event Log. The default value is 00:01:30.

Specify threads per processor limit

To specify the maximum number of worker threads per processor that ASP can create, use the following syntax:

appcmd set config /section:asp /processorThreadMax:int

The variable int represents the maximum number of worker threads per processor that ASP can create. The default value is 25.

Specify default locale identifier

To define how dates, times, and currencies are formatted for an ASP application, use the following syntax:

appcmd set config /section:asp /lcid:int

The variable int represents the default locale identifier for an ASP application. The default value is 0.

Enable or disable automatic application restart

To enable or disable automatic restart of ASP applications whenever a configuration setting is changed, use the following syntax:

appcmd set config /section:asp /enableApplicationRestart:True|False

True enables ASP applications to be automatically restarted whenever a configuration setting is changed. The default value is True.

Enable or disable line number calculation

To enable or disable ASP to calculate and store the line number of each executed line of code to provide the number in an error report, use the following syntax:

appcmd set config /section:asp /calLineNumber:True|False

True enables line number calculation and storage. The default value is True.

Enable or disable COM component exception trapping

To enable or disable ASP pages to catch exceptions thrown by COM components, use the following syntax:

appcmd set config /section:asp /exceptionCatchEnable:True|False

True enables COM component exception trapping. If set to False, the Microsoft Script Debugger tool does not catch exceptions sent by the component that you are debugging. The default value is True.

Enable or disable client-side debugging

To enable or disable client-side debugging, use the following syntax:

appcmd set config /section:asp /appAllowClientDebug:True|False

True enables client-side debugging. The default value is False.

Enable or disable log error requests

To enable or disable the writing of ASP errors to the application section of the Windows event log, use the following syntax:

appcmd set config /section:asp /logErrorRequests:True|False

True enables log error requests. By default, ASP errors are written to the client browser and the IIS logs. The default value is True.

Enable or disable server-side debugging

Enable or disable Windows event logging of ASP errors

To enable or disable ASP debugging on the server, use the following syntax:

appcmd set config /section:asp /appAllowDebugging:True|False

True enables server-side debugging for ASP applications. The default value is False.

Run On End Functions Anonymously

To enable or disable SessionOnEnd and ApplicationOnEnd global ASP functions to run as the anonymous user, use the following syntax:

appcmd set config /section:asp /runOnEndAnonymously:True|False

True enables SessionOnEnd and ApplicationOnEnd global ASP functions to run as the anonymous user. The default value is True.

Specify script error message

To specify the error message to send to the browser if specific debugging errors are not sent to the client, use the following syntax:

appcmd set config /section:asp /scriptErrorMessage:string

The variable string represents the error message that is sent to the browser when specific debugging errors are not sent to the client. The default value is "An error occurred on the server when processing the URL. Please contact the system administrator".

Enable or disable sending errors to the browser

To enable or disable the writing of debugging specifics (file name, error, line number, and description) to the client browser in addition to logging them to the Windows event log, use the following syntax:

appcmd set config /section:asp /scriptErrorSentToBrowser:True|False

True enables the writing of debugging specifics to the client browser. The default value is False.

Specify default script language

To specify the default script language for all ASP applications that are running on the web server, use the following syntax:

appcmd set config /section:asp /scriptLanguage:string

The variable string represents the default script language. The default value is VBScript.

Specify cache directory path

To specify the name of the directory where ASP stores compiled ASP templates when the in-memory cache overflows, use the following syntax:

appcmd set config /section:asp /diskTemplateCacheDirectory:string

The variable string represents the cache directory path. The default value is %windir%\system32\inetsrv\ASP Compiled Templates.

Enable or disable type library caching

To enable or disable the caching of type libraries, use the following syntax:

appcmd set config /section:asp /enableTypelibCache:True|False

True enables the caching of type libraries. The default value is True.

Set maximum number of compiled ASP templates to store

To set the maximum number of compiled ASP templates that can be stored, use the following syntax:

appcmd set config /section:asp /maxDiskTemplateCacheFiles:int

The variable int represents the maximum number of compiled ASP templates to store. The default value is 2000.

Set maximum number of compiled ASP templates to store

To set the maximum number of precompiled script files to cache, use the following syntax:

appcmd set config /section:asp /scriptFileCacheSize:int

The variable int represents the number of precompiled script files to cache. If set to 0, no script files are cached. If set to 4294967295, all requested script files are cached. The default value is 500.

Set maximum number of scripting engines to cache

To set the maximum number of scripting engines that ASP pages keep cached in memory, use the following syntax:

appcmd set config /section:asp /scriptEngineCacheMax:int

The variable int represents the maximum number of scripting engines that are cached. The default value is 250.

Enable or disable COM+ side-by-side assemblies

To enable or disable side-by-side COM+ assemblies, which allow ASP applications to specify which version of a system DLL or classic COM component to use, use the following syntax:

appcmd set config /section:asp /appServiceFlags:True|False

True enables COM+ side-by-side assemblies. The default value is False.

Enable or disable COM+ tracker

To enable or disable COM+ tracker, use the following syntax:

appcmd set config /section:asp /enableTypelibCache:True|False

True enables COM+ tracker, which lets administrators or developers debug ASP applications. The default value is False.

Enable or disable multithreaded environments

To enable or disable ASP to run in a multithreaded environment, use the following syntax:

appcmd set config /section:asp /executeInMta:True|False

True enables ASP to run in a multithreaded environment. The default value is False.

Enable or disable thread model checking

To enable or disable whether IIS checks the threading model of any component that your application creates, use the following syntax:

appcmd set config /section:asp /trackThreadingModel:True|False

True enables thread model checking. The default value is False.

Specify COM+ partition ID

To specify the Globally Unique Identifier (GUID) of the COM+ partition, use the following syntax:

appcmd set config /section:asp /partitionID:string

The variable string represents the GUID of the COM+ partition. The default value is 00000000-0000-0000-0000-000000000000.

Note
You must also set the appServiceFlags flag to True.

Specify COM+ application

To specify the name of the COM+ application, use the following syntax:

appcmd set config /section:asp /sxsName:string

The variable string represents name of the COM+ application.

Note
You must also set the appSeviceFlags flag to True.

Enable or disable COM+ partitioning

To enable or disable COM+ partitioning, use the following syntax:

appcmd set config /section:asp /appServiceFlags:True|False

True enables COM+ partitioning, which can be used to isolate applications in their own COM+ partition. The default value is False.

Note
If set to True, you must also set a value for the partitionID property.

Enable or disable session state

To enable or disable session state persistence for an ASP application, use the following syntax:

appcmd set config /section:asp /allowSessionState:True|False

True enables session state persistence. The default value is True.

Set maximum number of concurrent sessions

To set the maximum number of concurrent sessions that ASP allows, use the following syntax:

appcmd set config /section:asp /max:int

The variable int represents the maximum number of concurrent sessions. The default value is -1.

Enable or disable secure session ID

To enable or disable the sending of a session ID as a secure cookie if assigned over a secure session channel, use the following syntax:

appcmd set config /section:asp /keepSessionIdSecure:True|False

True enables secure session ID. The default value is True.

Set session time-out

To specify the default time that a session object is maintained after the last request associated with the object is made, use the following syntax:

appcmd set config /section:asp /timeout:timeSpan

The variable timeSpan represents the maximum time (hh:mm:ss) that a session object is maintained after the last request associated with the object is made. The default value is 00:20:00.