IIS 7–resetting site to root inheritance

I wanted to reset some sites, on a multiple site IIS server, to pick up their logging settings from the root.

After some digging around I have found that you have to edit the “applicationhost.config” to achieve this.

The file can be found here

%windir%\System32\inetsrv\config

Site information is held within this XML file, find the site section with the corresponding site name you are looking for. In this example “Default Web Site”.

<site name="Default Web Site" id="1" serverAutoStart="true">
                <application path="/">
                    <virtualDirectory path="/" physicalPath="C:\inetpub\wwwroot\defaultwebsite" />
                </application>
                <bindings>
                    <binding protocol="http" bindingInformation="*:80:testy.test.commy" />
                </bindings>
                <logFile logFormat="W3C" directory="E:\weblogs" />
            </site>

Now just delete the <logfile ….> entry completely and save.

You should now find in the IIS gui that the logging settings are now picking up the root settings. Hoorah!

IIS 7–resetting site to root inheritance