Using perl, how do I get a listing of websites in IIS?

Question

I want to get a listing of IIS websites in Perl and their home directory. Does anyone have a module or application to do this? Is there a configuration file anywhere that I can use regular file IO on? Is there an API published anywhere for this, or an opensource implementation I can look at?

Answer 1

The following two articles give a pretty good overview of how to query the IIS metabase via ADSI (using VBScript, in this case):

http://blogs.msdn.com/b/david.wang/archive/2005/07/13/howto-enumerate-iis-website-configuration.aspx

http://blogs.msdn.com/b/david.wang/archive/2006/06/08/howto-enumerate-iis-website-and-ftpsite-configuration-vbscript-using-adsi.aspx

Practically speaking, all you'd need to do is reimplement something similar using Win32::OLE. You could look instead at querying the IIS metabase XML directly (typically found somewhere like %SystemRoot%\System32\inetsrv\metabase.xml), but that's probably somewhat less portable.