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Easy way to move my IIS7 website to another server?
My website has more than a dozen ASP.NET applications, 50,000 + pages.
I want to move the whole site to a new server.
I'm trying to use WebDeploy to do this. I've exported my whole www.mysite.com.
But on the new server, when i try to import my website using webdeploy, it is forcing me to import it under "Default Web Site". The webdeploy tool only becomes available when I click an existing website (i.e. Default Web Site). But I need to import an entire website underneath "sites" in IIS, making it a ROOT site, not a sub-application beneath a site.
I do not want my whole website to be "under" a default website. My site IS the default website.
is this making sense? How do I copy a full IIS 7 website complete with a dozen applications and several application pools onto a new IIS7 server
So am I using the right tool (web deploy) to do this? or is there an easier way?
I want to move the whole site to a new server.
I'm trying to use WebDeploy to do this. I've exported my whole www.mysite.com.
But on the new server, when i try to import my website using webdeploy, it is forcing me to import it under "Default Web Site". The webdeploy tool only becomes available when I click an existing website (i.e. Default Web Site). But I need to import an entire website underneath "sites" in IIS, making it a ROOT site, not a sub-application beneath a site.
I do not want my whole website to be "under" a default website. My site IS the default website.
is this making sense? How do I copy a full IIS 7 website complete with a dozen applications and several application pools onto a new IIS7 server
So am I using the right tool (web deploy) to do this? or is there an easier way?
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You should use the IIS export configuration and import it into your new server, but I would also transfer the data over using ROBOCOPY (or something similar) so you can preserve all the folder and file permissions already configured in your old location.
check below link to export and import IIS website and app pools from IIS 7.5
http://www.microsoftpro.nl/2011/01/27/exporting-and-importing-sites-and-app-pools-from-iis-7-and-7-5/