# win_iis_website – Configures a IIS Web site

- Synopsis

- Parameters

- See Also

- Examples

- Status

## Synopsis

- Creates, Removes and configures a IIS Web site.

## Parameters

Parameter | Choices/Defaults | Comments
--- | --- | ---
application_pool string |  | The application pool in which the new site executes.
hostname string |  | The host header to bind to / use for the new site.
ip string |  | The IP address to bind to / use for the new site.
name string / required |  | Names of web site.
parameters string |  | Custom site Parameters from string where properties are separated by a pipe and property name/values by colon Ex. "foo:1|bar:2"
physical_path string |  | The physical path on the remote host to use for the new site. The specified folder must already exist.
port integer |  | The port to bind to / use for the new site.
site_id string |  | Explicitly set the IIS numeric ID for a site. Note that this value cannot be changed after the website has been created.
ssl string |  | Enables HTTPS binding on the site..

state
string

Choices:
- absent
- started
- stopped
- restarted

State of the web site

## See Also

See also

win_iis_virtualdirectory – Configures a virtual directory in IIS

  The official documentation on the win_iis_virtualdirectory module.

win_iis_webapplication – Configures IIS web applications

  The official documentation on the win_iis_webapplication module.

win_iis_webapppool – Configure IIS Web Application Pools

  The official documentation on the win_iis_webapppool module.

win_iis_webbinding – Configures a IIS Web site binding

  The official documentation on the win_iis_webbinding module.

## Examples

    # Start a website

    - name: Acme IIS site
      win_iis_website:
        name: Acme
        state: started
        port: 80
        ip: 127.0.0.1
        hostname: acme.local
        application_pool: acme
        physical_path: C:\sites\acme
        parameters: logfile.directory:C:\sites\logs
      register: website

    # Remove Default Web Site and the standard port 80 binding
    - name: Remove Default Web Site
      win_iis_website:
        name: "Default Web Site"
        state: absent

    # Some commandline examples:

    # This return information about an existing host
    # $ ansible -i vagrant-inventory -m win_iis_website -a "name='Default Web Site'" window
    # host | success >> {
    #     "changed": false,
    #     "site": {
    #         "ApplicationPool": "DefaultAppPool",
    #         "Bindings": [
    #             "*:80:"
    #         ],
    #         "ID": 1,
    #         "Name": "Default Web Site",
    #         "PhysicalPath": "%SystemDrive%\\inetpub\\wwwroot",
    #         "State": "Stopped"
    #     }
    # }

    # This stops an existing site.
    # $ ansible -i hosts -m win_iis_website -a "name='Default Web Site' state=stopped" host

    # This creates a new site.
    # $ ansible -i hosts -m win_iis_website -a "name=acme physical_path=C:\\sites\\acme" host

    # Change logfile.
    # $ ansible -i hosts -m win_iis_website -a "name=acme physical_path=C:\\sites\\acme" host

## Status

- This module is not guaranteed to have a backwards compatible interface. [preview]

- This module is maintained by the Ansible Community. [community]

### Authors

- Henrik Wallström (@henrikwallstrom)

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