Anuj Gakhar

I was assigned a task, recently, whereby I was given a list of about 100 domain names and I had to create all those websites on a fresh installation of IIS 6.0.  Naturally, I started looking for some kind of tool that would do this for me. After spending some time on search and asking a few people, I realized , there is no such tool (correct me if I am wrong here).

So, I thought of writing a little ColdFusion script that would do this for me. Turns out it wasnt that bad at all and it worked like a charm.

Here is the script I wrote.

[xml]
<cfset sites = ["abc.com","xyz.com"] />
<!— I have removed the actual site names from the list above—>

<!— loop over all the sites—>
<cfloop from="1" to="#arraylen(sites)#" index="i">
<!— see if the site folder exists—>
<cfset thisSite = sites[i] />
<cfset site_path = "c:/websites/#thisSite#">
<cfif NOT DirectoryExists(site_path)>
<!— create if does not exist already—>
<cfdirectory action="create" directory="#site_path#" />
</cfif>

<!— construct the IIS site creation command—>
<cfset iis_cmd = "c:\windows\system32\" & ‘iisweb.vbs /create c:\websites\#thisSite# "#thisSite#" /i IP_ADDRESS_HERE /d #thisSite# ‘>
<cfexecute name="c:\windows\system32\cscript.exe" arguments="#iis_cmd#" timeout="30" variable="strResult" />
<cfdump var = "#strResult#">
</cfloop>

[/xml]

I took help from this article, which details the different attributes of the iisweb.vbs command-line utility.