NsisIIS plug-in

Author: Kamyar (talk, contrib)

Links

NsisIIS.zip (16 KB)

Nsis IIS plugin page on SourceForge

Description

Version: 1.0.0

NsisIIS plugin to create/edit/delete/getinfo Microsoft IIS virtual directories and manage it's service status

Instructions:
- Copy NsisIIS.dll to Plugins folder of Nsis - Read this readme and example files.

Functions

NsisIIS::CreateVDir

Creates an IIS virtual directory and sets its configuration, or just set the configuration if it already exists.

After calling, you MUST Pop the message, it can be the success or fail message. You can also put the settings to Nsis user variables $1 through $5. See the documentation for details.

Example: NsisIIS::CreateVDir "VDir Name" "Physical Path"

NsisIIS::DeleteVDir

Deletes an IIS virtual directory by its name. After calling, you MUST Pop the message, it can be the success or fail message.

Example: NsisIIS::DeleteVDir "VDir Name"

NsisIIS::GetVDir

Gets an IIS virtual directory configuration (if exists) and put it into user variables $1 through $5. See the documentation for details. After calling, you MUST Pop the message, it can be the success or fail message.

Example: NsisIIS::GetVdir "VDir Name"

NsisIIS::ListVDirs

Gets a list of IIS Virtual Directory names, as a comma separated string.

Example: NsisIIS::ListVDirs

NsisIIS::Start

Tries to start IIS service if stopped. After calling, you MUST Pop the message, it can be the success or fail message.

Example: NsisIIS::Start

NsisIIS::Stop

Tries to stop IIS service if started. After calling, you MUST Pop the message, it can be the success or fail message.

Example: NsisIIS::Stop

NsisIIS::Pause

Tries to pause IIS service if running. After calling, you MUST Pop the message, it can be the success or fail message.

Example: NsisIIS::Pause

NsisIIS::Resume

Tries to resume IIS service after calling Pause. After calling, you MUST Pop the message, it can be the success or fail message.

Example: NsisIIS::Resume

NsisIIS::GetIIsInfo

Gets IIS Information. Currently only the version as "major.minor" string in $0.

Example: NsisIIS::GetIIsInfo

NsisIIS::ListWebSites

Tries to get a list of IIS Web Site names, as comma separated "Id:Title" items into $1. Note that in ADSI (and metabase) websites are identified by their index (id), not the name (title or comment).

Example: NsisIIS::ListWebSites

NsisIIS::CreateWebSite

Creates a website getting its Name (Title), Physical Path, and Bindings respectively. Other optional parameters can be feed into $1 through $4. Bindings are in the format of ADSI standard: hostname:ip:port. The following line creates a website at ort 8000, all headers and all assigned IPs.

Example:

 StrCpy $1 "Classic .NET AppPool"
 StrCpy $2 "rs"
 StrCpy $3 "MyWebPage.htm"
 NsisIIS::CreateWebSite "MyWebSite" "D:\WebSite2" "::8000"
 pop $0

NsisIIS::DeleteWebSite

Deletes a website by getting its 1 based index (id).

Example:

 NsisIIS::DeleteWebSite "2"
 pop $0

NsisIIS::GetWebSite

Gets a website information by getting its index (id). Result can be accessed via $0 through $5.

Example: NsisIIS::GetWebSite "2"

NsisIIS::ListAppPools

Lists all available IIS Application Pools as comma separated list of their names in $1.

Example: NsisIIS::ListAppPools

NsisIIS::CreateAppPool

Creates an Application Pool getting its name, and optionally other information through $1 to $3.

Example: NsisIIS::CreaetAppPool "MyAppPool"

NsisIIS::DeleteAppPool

Deletes an Application Pool getting its ID.

Example: NsisIIS::DeleteAppPool "MyAppPool"

NsisIIS::GetAppPool

Tries to get an Application Pool information getting its name, and returning the result in variables $1 through $3.

Example: NsisIIS::GetAppPool "MyAppPool"

$1 Returns: ?
$2 Returns: .Net Framework Version
$3 Returns: Managed Pipeline Mode

TODO

• Adding support for Virtual Directories inside a Web Site.
• Adding support for managing another machine (not local) IIS.
• Adding support for SSL & authentication settings.

History

• 2/24/2010 Released version 1.0.0 & used in my installer.
• 7/21/2011 Released version 2.0.0 & used in my installer.