community.windows.win_iis_website – Configures a IIS Web site

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community.windows.win_iis_website – Configures a IIS Web site

Note

This plugin is part of the community.windows collection (version 1.2.0).

To install it use: ansible-galaxy collection install community.windows.

To use it in a playbook, specify: community.windows.win_iis_website.


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"

Some custom parameters that you can use are listed below, this isn't a definitive list but some common parameters.

logfile.directory - Physical path to store Logs, e.g. D:\IIS-LOGs\.

logfile.period - Log file rollover scheduled accepting these values, how frequently the log file should be rolled-over, e.g. Hourly, Daily, Weekly, Monthly.

logfile.LogFormat - Log file format, by default IIS uses W3C.

logfile.truncateSize - The size at which the log file contents will be trunsted, expressed in bytes.

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

  • absent
  • started
  • stopped
  • restarted

State of the web site



See Also

See also

community.windows.win_iis_virtualdirectory
The official documentation on the community.windows.win_iis_virtualdirectory module.
community.windows.win_iis_webapplication
The official documentation on the community.windows.win_iis_webapplication module.
community.windows.win_iis_webapppool
The official documentation on the community.windows.win_iis_webapppool module.
community.windows.win_iis_webbinding
The official documentation on the community.windows.win_iis_webbinding module.


Examples

# Start a website

- name: Acme IIS site
  community.windows.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
  community.windows.win_iis_website:
    name: "Default Web Site"
    state: absent

# Create a WebSite with custom Logging configuration (Logs Location, Format and Rolling Over).

- name: Creating WebSite with Custom Log location, Format 3WC and rolling over every hour.
  community.windows.win_iis_website:
    name: MyCustom_Web_Shop_Site
    state: started
    port: 80
    ip: '*'
    hostname: '*'
    physical_path: D:\wwwroot\websites\my-shop-site
    parameters: logfile.directory:D:\IIS-LOGS\websites\my-shop-site|logfile.period:Hourly|logFile.logFormat:W3C
    application_pool: my-shop-site

# Some commandline examples:

# This return information about an existing host
# $ ansible -i vagrant-inventory -m community.windows.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 community.windows.win_iis_website -a "name='Default Web Site' state=stopped" host

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

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

Authors

  • Henrik Wallström (@henrikwallstrom)

© 2012–2018 Michael DeHaan
© 2018–2021 Red Hat, Inc.
Licensed under the GNU General Public License version 3.
https://docs.ansible.com/ansible/2.11/collections/community/windows/win_iis_website_module.html