How to start IIS Express Manually

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Is there a command line program or service that I can use to start IIS Express manually

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Or you simply manage it like full IIS by using Jexus Manager for IIS Express  an open source project I work on  https   jexusmanager com    Start a site and the process will be launched for you

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There is not a program but you can make a batch file and run a command like that     powershell  start-process  C  Program Files  x86  IIS Express iisexpress exe  -workingdirectory  C  Program Files  x86  IIS Express   -windowstyle Hidden

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From the links the others have posted  I m not seeing an option  -- I just use powershell to kill it -- you can save this to a Stop-IisExpress ps1 file   get-process   where      ProcessName -like  IISExpress      stop-process   There s no harm in it -- Visual Studio will just pop a new one up when it wants one

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Once you have IIS Express installed  the easiest way is through Microsoft Web Platform Installer   you will find the executable file in   PROGRAMFILES  IIS Express    PROGRAMFILES x86   IIS Express on x64 architectures  and its called iisexpress exe   To see all the possible command-line options  just run   iisexpress      and the program detailed help will show up   If executed without parameters  all the sites defined in the configuration file and marked to run at startup will be launched  An icon in the system tray will show which sites are running   There are a couple of useful options once you have some sites created in the configuration file  found in  USERPROFILE  Documents IISExpress config applicationhost config   the  site and  siteId   With the first one  you can launch a specific site by name   iisexpress  site SiteName   And with the latter  you can launch by specifying the ID   iisexpress  siteId SiteId   With this  if IISExpress is launched from the command-line  a list of all the requests made to the server will be shown  which can be quite useful when debugging   Finally  a site can be launched by specifying the full directory path  IIS Express will create a virtual configuration file and launch the site  remember to quote the path if it contains spaces    iisexpress  path FullSitePath   This covers the basic IISExpress usage from the command line

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iisexpress program is responsible for that   http   www iis net learn extensions using-iis-express running-iis-express-from-the-command-line

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