Is there a better way than going to the command prompt, typing

IISRESET
EXIT

And then hitting refresh?

You could theoretically write a VBS or a batch file and execute it using Windows Shell through ASP. I've never really tried it before, though, so I don't know the ins and outs of it.

You think that would work? Triggering an IIS restart from ASP? Because then I could just add a bookmark to that page. I wonder if Microsoft allows that kind of suicide?

If not, can you make FireFox buttons that point at batch files? Or, ideally, that run a batch file then refresh the current page? Now I'm just being greedy.

Well the idea is that the ASP page calls an instance of the Windows Script Host, and then you go from there. Mind you, I never thought it all the way through and I just realized it probably wouldn't work since an IIS restart would probably stop the page from executing any further code and would probably render it useless.

Try it, though. Only way to find stuff out.

Well, I tried making a batch file on the desktop. It works when I double click it, to restart the server. And I can add it to the bookmark toolbar that comes with FireFox. But instead of running the file, it displays it's contents. So I see black text that says "IISRESET".

Next I tried making a bookmark point directly at C:\Windows\System32\iisreset.exe but when I click it, FireFox prompts me to download the file, instead of running it.

Eventually I'll find more time on discovering a quick way to reset the server, than actually doing it.

You refuse to work in anything but .net, right? When you save the web.config file, IIS will bounce the web application it belongs to. If you give the iis_usr or whatever it is write privileges to that file, you can make a page that's coded to open and close the file when requested by a whitelist of IPs. And then you could bookmark that...?

On the IIS administration site that is installed along with IIS there are scripts for stopping and starting each site, maybe you could disect these?

or create a batch file to run IISRESET and call that from a WSH script
see http://support.microsoft.com/kb/202013 for more

Learning Newbie,

You know what I would do. I would create windows app or a simple service and install in the webserver.

This service may look at a file or a table in a database. Create an asp page which can update a value in a file or database table.

In the service or app, add a condition value = something ( like 0) , use the service to issue the iis command and update the flag to 1.

Nice and easy control.