Can I automate creating a .NET web application / virtual directory in IIS 5?

Question

I asked this http://stackoverflow.com/questions/313877/can-i-automate-creating-a-net-web-application-in-iis a little ago, and got solutions for IIS 6 and IIS 7:

• IIS6 : iisweb /create C:\Rome "My Vacations" /d www.reskit.com /dontstart
• IIS7 : %windir%\system32\inetsrv\AppCmd ADD SITE /name:MyNewSite /bindings:http/*:81: /physicalPath:c:\inetpub\mynewsite

but I've just got back to it the actual project, and it turns out that is I need to deploy on (shock-horror) IIS 5.1

Has anyone got any ideas?

To make it clear:

I want to use IIS, but I want to create the web application automatically (ideally batch file) without opening the IIS Microsoft Management Console (MMC)

Answer 1

You can access the IIS 5.1 metabase in VBScript, and this allows you to create a virtual directory. For example, this should set up a Virtual Directory called 'TestDir' that points to the folder C:\inetpub\wwwroot\Test

strComputer = "localhost"
strVdirName = "TestDir"
strVdirPath = "C:\Inetpub\wwwroot\Test"

set objIIS = GetObject("IIS://" & strComputer & "/W3SVC/1")
set objWebSite = objIIS.GetObject("IISWebVirtualDir","Root")
set objVdir = objWebSite.Create("IISWebVirtualDir",strVdirName)
objVdir.AccessRead = True
objVdir.Path = strVdirPath
objVdir.AppCreate (True)
objVdir.SetInfo
WScript.Echo "Successfully created virtual directory: " & objVdir.Name