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Is there an interface separate from the regular IIS manager?

When I search on IISExpress I find only a link to a folder full of logs related to IISExpress sites that had been spawned by Visual Studio.

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  • Related to this, the config files are located in `%userprofile%\documents\IISExpress`, http://stackoverflow.com/questions/23314928/where-is-the-iis-express-install-directory – jamiebarrow Sep 16 '16 at 08:50
  • For those of you having the same problem in Windows 10. https://stackoverflow.com/questions/30901434/iis-manager-in-windows-10 – milestyle Sep 25 '17 at 20:33
  • For the same problem in Windows 10: https://stackoverflow.com/questions/30901434/iis-manager-in-windows-10 – milestyle Sep 25 '17 at 20:34
  • Download the "IIS: Management Console" from the Microsoft Web Platform Installer. – Mark Capistrant Nov 13 '17 at 15:07
  • You can only resort to open source projects. One of them is created by me, https://www.jexusmanager.com/en/latest/ – Lex Li Jul 15 '18 at 19:18

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You can use WebMatrix, or Visual Studios to manage web sites in IIS Express.

Or, if you like the command line you can use the files located in c:\Program Files\IIS Express or c:\Program Files (x86)\IIS Express

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  • No dude. There's a GUI app to manage it; you can download it from the Web Platform Installer. – BrainSlugs83 Mar 13 '17 at 21:38
  • @BrainSlugs83, what is this GUI app called in Web PI? Alternately, what are the steps to find it? – Mathieu K. Apr 20 '17 at 16:28
  • @BrainSlugs83, dude, there's a billion things in the WPI. Which one is it? – toddmo Apr 21 '17 at 13:12
  • It's called Web Matrix – ryandawkins Aug 09 '17 at 14:42
  • WebMatrix is now dead, https://forums.iis.net/t/1233133.aspx?VS+Code+and+WebMatrix+no+longer+in+development+ . Also starting from 2014, I started an open source project Jexus Manager to fill the gaps Microsoft left, https://www.jexusmanager.com/en/latest/ – Lex Li Jul 15 '18 at 19:22
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There isn't an equivalent to the normal IIS7 control panel that I'm aware of, but when IIS Express is running there is usually a management tool that appears in the system tray that will let you do things like shut down or remove sites or recycle processes.

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  • There is a GUI management tool, you just have to install it separately from the Web Platform Installer. – BrainSlugs83 Mar 13 '17 at 21:39
  • where? how is it called? :) – Falco Alexander Feb 27 '18 at 14:42
  • @BrainSlugs83 Even in 2017 you wouldn't get anything from Web Platform Installer to manage IIS Express in IIS Manager manner. – Lex Li Jul 15 '18 at 19:23
  • @Lex Li, Awesome tool! You managed to do what a company valued at nearly $1T couldn't do. Microsoft could've added IIS Express support in IIS Manager with a laughably trivial amount of effort. You did it without an existing code base. I would bill Microsoft for the hours you spent on it. – user148298 Dec 21 '21 at 20:31
  • Thanks for the feedback, my friend. But my own answer here was kindly deleted by @MichaelHampton. – Lex Li Dec 22 '21 at 00:24
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There is an open source tool:

https://github.com/jexuswebserver/JexusManager

https://www.jexusmanager.com/

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You can download the management control panel from Here

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