How do I get the base URL of My Web Application?

Question

Is it possible to get the base URL of a web site hosted in IIS 7 by using Microsoft.Web.Administration.ServerManager?

In the simplest scenario, this would be:

http://localhost

but I need to get it programmatically.

If I can't use ServerManager what is the best alternative?

Answer 1

For those interested in the usage of Microsoft.Web.Administration.ServerManager, here's some code. Consider that an IIS application my have more than one binding, resulting in more than one URL per web application.

var siteName = "Default Web Site";
var appPath = "MyWebApplication";

var serverManager = new ServerManager();
var site = serverManager.Sites[siteName];
appPath = appPath.StartsWith("/") ? appPath : "/" + appPath;
var app = site.Applications[appPath];

var urls = new List<string>();

foreach (var binding in site.Bindings)
{
    var sb = new StringBuilder();
    sb.Append(binding.Protocol);
    sb.Append("://");
    if (!string.IsNullOrWhiteSpace(binding.Host))
    {
        sb.Append(binding.Host);
    }
    else
    {
        if (Equals(binding.EndPoint.Address, IPAddress.Any))
        {
            sb.Append("localhost");
        }
        else
        {
            sb.Append(binding.EndPoint.Address);
        }
    }

    if (binding.EndPoint.Port != 80)
    {
        sb.Append(":");
        sb.Append(binding.EndPoint.Port);
    }

    sb.Append(app.Path);
    urls.Add(sb.ToString());
}

Answer 2

You can use string baseURL = HttpContext.Current.Request.Url.Host.