Will restarting the W3SVC Web Publishing Service, also restart the app pool in IIS

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Background:

I'm trying to stop and start IIS on a windows 7 build box, in order to run acceptance tests. But from what I have read, most of the remote web management features have been disabled by Microsoft in a retarted attempt to sell more Windows Server 2008 licenses. Still for some reason they didn't disable the least user-friendly ways of controlling IIS remotely, but they are all a total pain.

What I can do easily is remotely stop and start the WWW service from a msbuild task. But I want to be sure that this also restarts the app pool, so that when I copy in new web files the web server there will be serving the most recent version of the website.

Question:

If I restart the W3SVC windows service, will that also restart the app pool?

Best Answer

No, Windows Process Activation Service (WAS) handles the application pools in IIS 7; here is the documentation.

How To start and stop the services.

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You can find why it's crashing only by debugging the application; I'd start with the process exit code and look up what it means, and then enable sending ASP.NET error to clients in order to be able to see something in IE when the crash happens.

Other possible strategies: running the application pool with an attached debugger to see what's actually heppening, and/or modify the code to generate more detailed logs, include exception handlers, and so on.

If you are not one of the site developers, contact them; this is definitely an application issue, not a web server one.

To manage application pools from the command line, you can use the following commands:

appcmd start apppool /apppool.name: PoolName
appcmd stop apppool /apppool.name: PoolName
appcmd recycle apppool /apppool.name: PoolName

("Recycle" means "stop and restart").

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What happens if you try this from an elevated command prompt?

net stop w3svc
net stop IISAdmin
net start IISAdmin
net start w3svc

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