Web Site Restart

Greetings,
We have had occasion to find a way to restart a web site when we get a notification that the site is unavailable.  The restart process includes restarting the associated application pool (app pool) and the site itself.  In PowerShell, this task is simple to accomplish.  The code is as follows:

$wstate = Get-Website -Name 'Default Web Site'

$pstate = Get-IISAppPool -Name DefaultAppPool

if ($wstate.state -ne "Started") {

Restart-WebAppPool -Name DefaultAppPool

Start-Website -Name 'Default Web Site'



}

We will use the Default Web Site in this example.  The first line ($wstate = Get-Website -Name 'Default Web Site'), gets all the information regarding the default web site, including its state (started, stopped).  The second line ($pstate = Get-IISAppPool -Name DefaultAppPool ) gets the information regarding the app pool for the default web site.

Within the IF statement, if the state of the website ($wstate) is not 'Started' then the app pool is restarted (Restart-WebAppPool) and the web site is started (Start-Website).

To verify the site has started you can add the following commands to start a browser and browse to the site:
$url = 'http://<your web site>'

$ie.Visible = $true

$ie = new-object -ComObject internetexplorer.application

$ie.Navigate($url)

I hope this information is helpful. 

Mike