iisiis-7

How are Applications Removed from the IIS Application Pool?

We've got a new server, and I am trying to set it up for our website.

I got a new application for the engineers set up in the Application Pools called eng_app, then added our applications to it.

Now, we have been given an external drive that these applications need to be on, but I can't seem to edit or delete the existing applications.

I tried following the Microsoft Technet Article • Remove an Application (IIS 7) but, as you can see in the screenshot, those are incorrect.

C:\Windows\System32\inetsrv>appcmd delete app "eng_app/drawing"
ERROR ( message:Cannot find APP object with identifier "eng_app/drawing". )

C:\Windows\System32\inetsrv>appcmd delete app "/eng_app/drawing"
ERROR ( message:Must specify the APP object with identifier or "APP.NAME" parameter. )

Could someone tell me what I missed here?

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Solution

  • OK, it looks like you can't do it either through the command line or using the Application Pool interface.

    After stopping the webservice, what I did was:

    1. go down to the list of Sites and select my application from the list,
    2. click Basic Settings...
    3. change the Application pool with the Select... button and edit the Physical path

    Afterwards, you can restart the webservice.

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    There might be a better way, but this is how I did it.