Add IIS bindings from applicationhost.config

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I have a prelive site with about 70 domain names, is there a way to add this in octopus deploy using an applicationhost.config file instead of having to add one by one the 70 domains?

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Hi Roberto,

Thanks for getting in touch. Unfortunately there isn’t a better way to do what you are asking at the moment.

Your best bet will be to create a powershell script that reads your applicationhost.config and adds your bindings as a post-deploy step.

Sorry its not better news

Dalmiro

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Thanks for your reply, is there anyway to tell octopack not to overwrite the IIS site? Just use the existing configuration if the site already exists.

De: Dalmiro Grañas [mailto:tender2+dafdbdbc28@tenderapp.com]
Enviado el: Monday, May 04, 2015 10:37
Para: Roberto Yudice
Asunto: Re: Add IIS bindings from applicationhost.config [Questions #4739]

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Hi Roberto,

I’m sad to say its not possible at the time. You can either do nothing to the website, or do everything (create/update). We do have a github issue to improve this process for scenarios liek yours

I’ll be writing a script to export bindings from an existing site to a file and then import them back sometime this week. I’ll let you know once i have something

Thanks

Dalmiro

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I recently had to add 450+ host-headers to a site deployed using Octopus. The script I ended up with is this:

#-------------------------------------
# Bind hostheader for bb_redirects 
#-------------------------------------

Import-Module WebAdministration

# Set a name of the site we want to recycle the pool for:
$siteName = $OctopusParameters['WebSiteName']

Write-Output "Setting up array"

$BindingArray = @(
"*:80:www.domain1.com",
"*:80:www.domain2.com",
"*:80:www.domain3.com",
"*:80:www.domain4.com"
)

$site = "IIS:\Sites\$siteName"

$siteItem = (Get-Item $site)

# Stop website
Write-Output "Stopping website $($site)"
Stop-WebItem $site

Write-Output "Current number of bindings = $($siteItem.bindings.Collection.Count)" 

#Clear bindings for site
Clear-ItemProperty $site -Name bindings
$siteItem = (Get-Item $site)

Write-Output "Cleared: Current count = $($siteItem.bindings.Collection.Count)"

#Add bindings
Write-Output "$($BindingArray.Count) bindings will be added"
$headers = @()
Foreach ($binding in $BindingArray) {
   $object= [pscustomobject]@{protocol="http";bindingInformation="$binding";sslFlags=0;}
   $headers += $object
}    
New-ItemProperty  $site -Name bindings -Value $headers

$siteItem = (Get-Item $site)
Write-Output "$i bindings added. Current count = $($siteItem.bindings.Collection.Count)" 

Write-Output "Starting website $($site)"
Start-WebItem $site

This is overly complex but works. We tuned it and adding all bindings to an array of PSCustomObjects made it very quick to add all these headers.