IIS - Setting the physical path of an Application with appcmd

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In IIS, I have a web site "Default Web Site" with an application "test2". I want to set the physical path of that application to "E:\temp\out1". That directory already exists.

When I run this in Powershell (as an administrator):

appcmd.exe set app "Default Web Site/test2" -[path='/'].physicalpath:E:\temp\out1

I get this error message:

ERROR ( message:Malformed collection indexer; format is [@position,name='value',name2='value2',...].  The @position specifier is optional, and be '@start', '@end', or '@N' where N is a numeric index into the collection. )

I have no idea what that means.

Would very much appreciate a working example of using appcmd to set the physical path of an IIS application.

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1 Answers

Turns out that the command in my question actually works on Command Prompt. However, I tried to run it from a Powershell prompt, and there I got the error message.

I couldn't find a way to run the command from Powershell. In the end, my solution was to write the command to a temporary .bat file, then execute that file from Powershell.

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