Iis – Is stopping IIS the same as stopping the World Wide Web Publishing service

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I'm sure of come across situations where stopping IIS using the IIS manager has not allowed me access to asp.net bin directory files that are in use but when stopping the World Wide Web Publishing service, the files are then accessible.

The question was asked, are they not doing the same thing? Can anyone confirm that they are the same thing…I've always thought they were two different things…

I'm specifically talking about IIS6 on Windows Server 2003 (in case it's changed in different server or IIS versions)

thanks heaps!

Best Answer

This artical here might help.

When you right-click on the server in the IIS manager and choose "Restart IIS", it executes iisreset. Running iisreset does NOT reset the HTTP stack, it simply unloads and reloads the IIS process.

As a result, believe that iisreset does not reset the W3C service.

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