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Hi guys,

Can anybody help me out with this request?

I believe it is a matter of setting the right permissions for the application pool but I am not very familiar with this.

My aim is to be able to recycle the application pool from the back-end and also perform upgrades of the solution without having to use IIS Manager.

Thank you,
Adrian

Hi Adrian,

I haven't used the Dynamicweb feature for this so I can only make some assumptions. For the site to be able to recycle the app pool, the app pool will need to run with administrator or SYSTEM permissions. That reduces the security since the sites will no longer be isolated from each other, and if there is a hack on the site, the hacker can own the whole server rather than just the site. So, it's not ideal to do that. But, if you understand the rights, the solution is to edit the IIS App Pool and set the Identity to local system. That should enable the feature to work.

There is another option that is better, if it works for you. That's to run a recycle on the AppDomain. That will cause an AppDomain (not App Pool) recycle, which will usually achieve the same goal. The nice thing about that is that you don't have to elevate to system/admin privileges. To do this, you'll need to write a frontend page for them to run, obviously behind a login. 

To do so, you just need a simple page with the following Razor code:

Hi Scott,

Thank you very much for the (as always) detailed information.

I was not aware of the security issue. I have noticed that DW websites hosted in Cloud offer this option from the back-end as well as another option to manage the application version. In my view, they were related.

The security aspect is pretty important and if there are no solutions for it, I can stick with editing the web config when I need to recycle :)

Not exactly the cleanest way but it does the trick :)

Thank you,

Adrian 

Hi Scott,

Your suggestion is way more elegant than mine.

I will surely implement it in our solutions.

Thank you very much.

Adrian