IIS webservice to create "Web Sites"

Anyone know of a way to hit IIS with a local webservice or COM object to manage "websites."  I hear this is how Plesk does it, but I can't find anything in the couple of IIS documents I've looked through. Can someone point me in the right direction?  I'd like to be able to add / remove "identities" or host headers for a particular IIS "website." Thanks, Mik -------- Michael Muller Muller Technologies 24 3rd Street Turners Falls, MA 01376 work:  (413) 863-0030 cell:   (413) 320-5336 skype: michaelBmuller http://support.MullerTech.com Information is not knowlege Knowlege is not wisdom Eschew Obfuscation

I set up system that created IIS web sites on the fly using Plesk a couple years back. Plesk has an API, a series of exe files, that you talk to using cfexecute. You can do it using COM as well. I ran into a web hosting package, Bankoi webhost panel, written in asp that used COM objects to talk to IIS and various services and servers. http://www.webhost-panel.com/ It used to be free. I ended up reverse engineering a lot of it using cfobject to talk to various servers. I have the old version of webhost panel on backup some where. I can dig it up if you want to look at it. I will tell you right now, it  is a lot of work and it is not an easy thing to pull off. On Wed, Mar 26, 2008 at 5:36 PM, Michael Muller <michael@mullertech.com> wrote: ----- Excess quoted text cut - see Original Post for more -----

IIS does have a command line API called "iisweb" http://www.microsoft.com/technet/prodtechnol/WindowsServer2003/Library/IIS/aee71684-36c0-40e1-b387-a19d2d0509f0.mspx?mfr=true It's how we use ANT to create websites for us.. jonese On Thu, Mar 27, 2008 at 9:33 AM, Gerald Guido <gerald.guido@gmail.com> wrote: ----- Excess quoted text cut - see Original Post for more -----

This looks about right. Haven't tried it yet, but I'm hoping that the vbs will work without the /create switch... just the "sitename" and /d www.hostheader.com   All I want to do is add and delete hostheaders. Interesting left-nav selection...  Using Command-Line Administration Scripts Mik At 09:52 AM 3/27/2008, jonese wrote: ----- Excess quoted text cut - see Original Post for more -----