How to get website's physical path on local IIS server? (from a desktop app)

Question

How to get the path that usually looks like %SystemDrive%\inetpub\wwwroot ?

I guess it's something to do with Microsoft.Web.Administration.ServerManager class, but I couldn't find a way.

Update: I'm trying to get the path from standalone app. Not an ASP.NET web app.

Answer 1

To discover the physical path of a website from a standalone application you can do the following:

// If IIS7 // Add reference to Microsoft.Web.Administration in  // C:\windows\system32\inetsrv  using Microsoft.Web.Administration; ...  int iisNumber = 2;  using(ServerManager serverManager = new ServerManager()) {   var site = serverManager.Sites.Where(s => s.Id == iisNumber).Single();   var applicationRoot =             site.Applications.Where(a => a.Path == "/").Single();   var virtualRoot =             applicationRoot.VirtualDirectories.Where(v => v.Path == "/").Single();   Console.WriteLine(virtualRoot.PhysicalPath); } 

If you're using IIS 6 (or the IIS6 admin compatibility layer for IIS7)

// If IIS6 // Add reference to System.DirectoryServices on .NET add ref tab  using System.DirectoryServices; ...  int iisNumber = 2;  string metabasePath = String.Format("IIS://Localhost/W3SVC/{0}/root", iisNumber); using(DirectoryEntry de = new DirectoryEntry(metabasePath)) {   Console.WriteLine(de.Properties["Path"].Value); } 

Both these examples demonstrate how to discover the path to the root of a Web Site.

To discover the path to a virtual directory you need to amend the paths as necessary.