How do you work out the IIS Virtual Path for an application?

Question

When I try to change the ASP.NET version to v4 on IIS 6, I receive the following warning:

Changing the Framework version requires a restart of the W3SVC service. Alternatively, you can change the Framework version without restarting the W3SVC service by running: aspnet_regiis.exe -norestart -s IIS-Viirtual-Path

Do you want to continue (this will change the Framework version and restart the W3SVC service)?

How do I work out IIS-Virtual-Path?

I have tried the obvious paths i.e.:

aspnet_regiis.exe -norestart -s "/WebSites/Extranet/AppName"

Where WebSites is the name of the folder in IIS, Extranet the name of the root app and AppName the name of the Virtual Directory application I am trying to change.

Thanks!

Edit:

How do I work out the virtual path for the Auth virtual directory in following IIS6 setup:

I have tried:

aspnet_regiis.exe -norestart -s "/Web Sites/Extranet/Auth"

aspnet_regiis.exe -norestart -s "Auth"

I get:

Installation stopped because the specified path (WhateverIPutIn) is invalid.

Answer 1

I think your need to use a path starting with /W3SVC. Maybe this article can help you further.

Answer 2

I solved it. I had to use:

aspnet_regiis -lk to get a list of the folders in "IIS" format

Then I do something like:

aspnet_regiis.exe -norestart -s "W3SVC/1234567/root/AppName"

Answer 3

My problem running aspnet_regiis -lk was that I got an incomplete list of IDs and also I didn't know which ID corresponded to the Website i wanted to work on.

An easier way to find the IDs for your websites is by clicking on the "Website" node (folder) in IIS as in this picture. On the right side you should see a list of all websites with their "Identifier"s, State, IPs and ports.