How to ensure IIS website is completely stopped in Powershell? - powershell

Question

I've got a Powershell script that stops an IIS website and corresponding app pool and then deletes the app logs (log4net logs). Here is the script snippet:
stop-website -name "MyWebsite"
stop-webapppool -name "MyWebsite"
del c:\inetpub\MyWebsite\logs\*.*
The problem is stop-website and stop-webapppool seem to return before the website is completely shutdown which results in the delete failing saying the file is being used by another process:
del : Cannot remove item C:\inetpub\MyWebsite\logs\App.log: The process cannot access the file 'C:\inetpub\MyWebsite\logs\App.log' because it is being used by another process.
If I add a 10 second sleep between the stop commands and the del command then the logs are deleted successfully. This is very hackish though and not reliable. Is there a way to force the stop-website/stop-webapppool commands to not return until the website/apppool is completely stopped?
Thanks.
Implemented solution from the below link. I will wait ~60 seconds and then kill the IIS process if it hasn't stopped.
https://greenfinch.ie/blog/powershellscript.html
"Stopping IIS site [$name]" >> $logFile
stop-website -name $name
"Stopping app pool [$name]" >> $logFile
stop-webapppool -name $name
$sleepTime = 5
$processId = $TRUE
while ($processId)
{
$processId = Get-WmiObject -Class win32_process -filter "name='w3wp.exe'" |
?{ ($_.CommandLine).Split("`"")[1] -eq $name } |
%{ $_.ProcessId }
if ($sleepTime -gt 60)
{
"Waited [$sleepTime] sec for process [$processId] to stop and it is still running. Killing it." >> $logFile
Stop-Process $processId
break
}
if ($processId)
{
"App pool [$name] is running with process ID: [$processId]. Sleeping for [$sleepTime] sec and then checking again." >> $logFile
Start-Sleep -s $sleepTime
$sleepTime = $sleepTime + 10
}
}

Answer 1

You can use these two commands to check the status of the website/app, say after 10 seconds, then use an If statement to delete logs only when the status returned is stopped
Get-WebsiteState -name "MyWebsite"
Get-WebAppPoolState -name "MyWebsite"
This loop should help you too
$currentRetry = 0;
$success = $false;
do{
$status = Get-WebAppPoolState -name "MyWebsite"
if ($status -eq "Stopped"){
<....your code here....>
$success = $true;
}
Start-Sleep -s 10
$currentRetry = $currentRetry + 1;
}
while (!$success -and $currentRetry -le 4)
Updated Apr 24, 2019
Based on comment and current cmdlet document, it appears the return type is indeed an object. Thus presumably can be handled as commented or the line snippet below. Author no longer have access to Windows Server environment therefore did not directly modify original answer nor able to test the update
if ($status.Value -eq "Stopped")

Answer 2

After you run 'Stop-WebAppPool' the state of the WebAppPool will be "Stopping" and it may take a few seconds before the state of the WebAppPool is actually "Stopped".
Here is a little function to help with the WebAppPoolState
function Stop-AppPool ($webAppPoolName,[int]$secs) {
$retvalue = $false
$wsec = (get-date).AddSeconds($secs)
Stop-WebAppPool -Name $webAppPoolName
Write-Output "$(Get-Date) waiting up to $secs seconds for the WebAppPool '$webAppPoolName' to stop"
$poolNotStopped = $true
while (((get-date) -lt $wsec) -and $poolNotStopped) {
$pstate = Get-WebAppPoolState -Name $webAppPoolName
if ($pstate.Value -eq "Stopped") {
Write-Output "$(Get-Date): WebAppPool '$webAppPoolName' is stopped"
$poolNotStopped = $false
$retvalue = $true
}
}
return $retvalue
}
you can run this function using e.g.
Stop-AppPool "MyWebsite" 30
and check the return-value to see if the WebAppPool has stopped within the given seconds

Answer 3

The simplest way to stop the app pool and get it into Stopped state is to use appcmd.exe. It will return when the app pool is really stopped or you'll get an error
Just do this on PowerShell:
& $env:windir\system32\inetsrv\appcmd.exe stop apppool /apppool.name:"YourAppPoolName"
When your AppPool is correctly stooped you'll get this message:
"YourAppPoolName" successfully stopped

Answer 4

I fix the #user4531 code It would be failed if the app pool is stopped before :
function Stop-AppPool ($webAppPoolName,[int]$secs) {
$retvalue = $false
$wsec = (get-date).AddSeconds($secs)
$pstate = Get-WebAppPoolState -Name $webAppPoolName
if($pstate.Value -eq "Stopped") {
Write-Output "WebAppPool '$webAppPoolName' is stopped already"
return $true
}
Stop-WebAppPool -Name $webAppPoolName
Write-Output "$(Get-Date) waiting up to $secs seconds for the WebAppPool '$webAppPoolName' to stop"
$poolNotStopped = $true
while (((get-date) -lt $wsec) -and $poolNotStopped) {
$pstate = Get-WebAppPoolState -Name $webAppPoolName
if ($pstate.Value -eq "Stopped") {
Write-Output "WebAppPool '$webAppPoolName' is stopped"
$poolNotStopped = $false
$retvalue = $true
}
}
return $retvalue
}
It can use like this :
Stop-AppPool "SSO" 30

Answer 5

Here is how I did it with Get-IISServerManager.
$manager = Get-IISServerManager
$site = $manager.Sites["mySiteName"]
if($site.State -ne "Stopped") {
$site.Stop()
}
while ($site.State -ne "Stopped") {
"waiting 1 second for site to stop..."
Start-Sleep -s 1
}
"site stopped"