If you are concerned with another admin enabling it, you can comment it out in the applicationHost.config. That effectively makes it disappear from the IIS Manager console without modifying anything on disk.
I might take a copy of the applicationHost.config versus just commenting out the site definition... jlc > -----Original Message----- > From: [email protected] > [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of Michael Leone > Sent: Monday, September 11, 2017 12:38 PM > To: [email protected] > Subject: [NTSysADM] Disabling a web site in IIS > > I know very little about IIS. I have a Win2008 R2 server, and IIS > Manager shows 3 sites under the web server. I want to disable 2 of > them (one is the default web site), leaving only the 3rd running and > accessible. > > I stopped them, and set them to not automatically start. What I'd like > to do is ensure that they are disabled, and can't start. I keep > finding search results that indicate making changes to the Directory > Security, which will do that. And I don't see any icon that says > Directory Security, nor on any right click of a site, etc. > > What am I misunderstanding here? How can I disable these 2 sites, so I > can be sure they don't start? (I don't know if they will be needed > again, hence why I don't want to delete them) >
