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• 11-03-2009, 9:10 AM

  festivis Joined on 11-03-2009, 2:02 PM Posts 3

  HELP REMOVING CONFIG FROM APPLICATIONHOST Reply Contact I'm using appcmd to set config in the applicationHost file for various applications. This works fine. However, I also have scripts that uninstall the applications. I use appcmd delete app "App Name". The problem is when executing this cmd is does not remove any config that may have been set in the applicationHost file. I noticed when deleting the app in IIS mgmt console it DOES remove any config from the applicationHost file. I also tried using the appcmd clear config with the /delete parameter but I get a "the data is invalid" error.  Can anyone help me?

• 11-06-2009, 3:49 AM

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  steve schofield Joined on 06-10-2002, 4:54 PM MI Posts 3,970	Re: HELP REMOVING CONFIG FROM APPLICATIONHOST Reply Contact Can you provide some steps to reproduce the issue with commands? Steve Schofield Windows Server MVP - IIS http://weblogs.asp.net/steveschofield http://www.IISLogs.com Log archival solution Install, Configure, Forget

• 11-06-2009, 11:01 AM

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  festivis Joined on 11-03-2009, 2:02 PM Posts 3

  Re: HELP REMOVING CONFIG FROM APPLICATIONHOST Reply Contact We'll run these cmds during install : appcmd add apppool /name:MyApp /managedPipelineMode:Integrated /processModel.identityType:NetworkService /processModel.idleTimeout:01:00:00 appcmd add app /site.name:"Default Web Site" /path:/MyApp /physicalPath:"c:\inetpub\wwwroot\myapp" /applicationPool:MyApp appcmd set config "Default Web Site/MyApp" /section:anonymousAuthentication /enabled:true /commit:AppHost Then on an uninstall we do this : appcmd delete app "Default Web Site/MyApp" appcmd delete apppool MyApp After the install, the anonymousAuthentication section is added to the applicationHost.config file, as expected. However, after uninstall, the anonymousAuthentication section is still in the applicationHost.config file. If I run the setup, but then manually delete the application via the IIS mgmt console, the anonymousAuthentication section (actually, the entire MyApp location section) is removed. I would have expected the "appcmd delete app" to remove the MyApp location section from the applicationHost.config file, but it doesn't. I also tried the "appcmd clear config /section:anonymousAuthentication /delete /commit:AppHost" but I get a "the data is invalid" error.

• 11-06-2009, 12:20 PM

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  anilr Joined on 05-23-2006, 10:13 PM Redmond, WA Posts 2,343	Re: HELP REMOVING CONFIG FROM APPLICATIONHOST Reply Contact You cannot delete the location tag for the application using appcmd - you have to use either the AHAdmin COM interface of MWA managed interface to do it. Anil Ruia Senior Software Design Engineer IIS Core Server

• 11-06-2009, 1:23 PM

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  festivis Joined on 11-03-2009, 2:02 PM Posts 3	Re: HELP REMOVING CONFIG FROM APPLICATIONHOST Reply Contact OK, but this has got to be a flaw. Anything I do with appcmd should be able to be undone with appcmd.

• 11-06-2009, 1:51 PM

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  CarlosAg Joined on 02-18-2003, 9:23 PM Posts 346

  Re: HELP REMOVING CONFIG FROM APPLICATIONHOST Reply Contact Technically you can undo whatever action you make, for example you are not specifically creating a location tag, you are setting a configuration section for a specific path. This can be undone by using appcmd clear config "path" -section:"section" -delete . This will make sure to remove entirely the section that was added by your "appcmd set config". The thing that cannot be achieved right now is to be able to delete entirely a location path at once.