What is a site identifier

I'm reading KB 834141 but it keeps going on about site identifers in IIS 6
at the bottom of the page, I don't know what they mean do you?

Re: What is a site identifier

Hi,

It is the website ID. In IIS Manager, you can see it if you click on the
"Web Sites" folder and look in the right pane. The Identifier column shows
you the identifier.


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Kristofer Gafvert
http://www.gafvert.info/iis/ - IIS Related Info


Cyborg wrote:

>I'm reading KB 834141 but it keeps going on about site identifers in IIS 6
>at the bottom of the page, I don't know what they mean do you?

Re: What is a site identifier

A site identifier is the metabase internal identifier associated with
a web site. If you open
%SYSTEMROOT%\system32\inetsrv\metabase.xml
and search for
/LM/W3SVC/1
You will see all the properties associated with the default site
created by IIS when is setup. Any other site you add using the UI
(inetmgr.exe) will get a random integer as its internal site
identifier and fit in a similar structure.

How do you find the site identifier of an existing web site?

You have, at least, two ways. Use the IIS User Interface (inetmgr.exe)
and list the web sites you have. You'll see that one of the columns on
the right contains the site identifier. The other way is to open
metabase.xml and look for the description you gave to the web site
similar to "Default Web Site". You'll find something like this:

...
ServerComment="Default Web Site"
>

Any other web site will fit in a similar structure like this inside
metabase.xml.

Tiago Halm