Getting the TCP Port of an existing website

[Justin]

Hi

I am in the process of creating an installer to install an IIS website. But i need to give the user the option to install onto a New Site, Existing website or a virtual directory. After using the Get IIS Site list to get the existing sites is there any way to retrieve the TCP Port for the selected existing website?

I have so far tried the Get IIS Site Property but have been unsuccessful ("ServerBindings") im beginning to think that this may not be possible?

Im currently using IIS6 but would like the installer to run on IIS7 too.

Any help on this would be great.

[giaviv]

Dear Justin,

A few issues have been discovered lately while working with IIS 6/7 in InstallAware. What I would suggest you to do as a work-around is the following:

1) Call iisweb.exe / appcmd.exe in IIS 6 and 7 (respectively) in order to query information about your website.
2) Redirect the output of these commands to a text file.
3) Read that text file and parse it to retrieve the TCP port.

I am attaching a sample project that retrieves the TCP port and supports both IIS 6 and 7, I hope it is helpful.

Best

[Justin]

Hi Giaviv

Thats brilliant, thank you so much! was very helpful indeed.

[giaviv]

Dear Justin,

You are welcome! Glad to help. Please let me know if you have any more questions.

[mikel]

Is there a way to get the TCP port (MD_SERVER_BINDINGS in metabase) for IIS5.1?

[giaviv]

Dear mikel,

I think that the MD_SERVER_BINDINGS metabase property is a complex variable - am I correct?

[mikel]

I'm not sure if its complex or not... Maybe the more direct question I should have posted is "How do you get the TCP Port number under IIS 5.1?"

[giaviv]

Dear mikel,

If the MD_SERVER_BINDINGS doesn't work, you will have to use the example I attached above.

[mikel]

MD_SERVER_BINDINGS does not work, and I tried the sample above, but does not work on IIS5.1

[giaviv]

Dear mikel,

I touched up the IISGetTCPPort example to add support for IIS 5. Enjoy!

[mikel]

Spot on Aviv!!

[giaviv]

No worries - good luck!