How to Change Web Application Name in IIS

 
For IIS based Web Application , it has been  a known fact  that you are not allowed to edit the application alias from IIS Manager Interface. If you go to editing , The alias of an application has the gray color (not admitted to change). But in this article you may found how to do this.

But there is an another way to do it. You can edit the settings file as it is written in this article:

 First  Conider a scenario that you  have Original URL as www.contoso.com/iis
Now you want it to Change it to www.contoso.com/iis1, then   you can opt for

1) Creating a new Subwebsite[Virtual Directory] named iis1 under the Root " Deafult web Site".Give the Physical path same as iis. [ This is Applicable if  it does not have nested Virtual Directories/Applications]

2)You can use Appcmd command  to Rename the Web Application Name [ Applicable if the nested web application is not much high , ususally 3 to 4 web Applications]

appcmd set app "Default Web Site/iis/xyz" -path:/test/xyz
appcmd set app "Default Web Site/iis" -path:/test

 In this  case you have to start renaming the  web application  starting from Child node , otherwise  all the nested web application  be lost in oblivion. If there are  lot of nested web applications then it would be very tough to rename all of them.

3)  Changing the Alias or URL path by  Migrating the Web Application under  the desired Alias Name/ Web Application

 The Best way which i have discovered is to migrate the   web Application under  new Alias Name  using Web Deploy Command Line Utility

 Curent URL Path: www.contoso.com/iis

 Requested URL Path:www.contoso.com/iis1

First Step is to Capture the Web Application  in the form of package using Web Deploy command line. Before Running the command please capture the web Application ID from IIS.

msdeploy -verb:sync -source:metakey=lm/w3svc/1/iis -disableLink:ContentExtension -dest:package=c:\iis.zip,encryptPassword="" -enableLink:AppPool >c:\iis.log

Then  Run the below Command to Migrate the web Application Named IIS under new Alias IIS1

msdeploy -verb:sync -source:package=c:\iis.zip,encryptPassword="" -dest:metakey=lm/w3svc/1/iis1 >c:\iis1.log