How to stop a IIS Website completely from powershell?

Question

I'm trying to write a backup plan with powershell that archives the website root directory and send it to sftp server. The problem is that even when I stop the website with either of these two commands

Stop-WebSite "website"
Stop-IISSite -Name "website"

as the compression wants to start it throws an error as following

ZipArchiveHelper: The process cannot access the file 'C:\.netpub...\www\AutoMapper.dll' because it is being used by another process. At C:\Windows\system32\WindowsPowerShell\v1.0\Modules\Microsoft.PowerShell.Archive\Microsoft.PowerShell.Archive.psm1:697 char:30

When I stop the website from IIS manager the code works fine, so is there any way to stop a website completely from Powershell?

Answer 1

The usual way is this:

In recent version of Windows (10, 2016, and later), you need to import IISAdministration instead of WebAdministration.

Import-Module IISAdministration
Stop-WebSite 'Default Web Site'
Start-WebSite 'Default Web Site'

For older version of Windows and IIS, you need to do.

Import-Module WebAdministration
Stop-WebSite 'Default Web Site'
Start-WebSite 'Default Web Site'

you can also perform this remotely using Invoke-Command.

Import-Module WebAdministration
$siteName = "Default Web Site"
$serverName = "name"
$block = {Stop-WebSite $args[0]; Start-WebSite $args[0]};  
$session = New-PSSession -ComputerName $serverName
Invoke-Command -Session $session -ScriptBlock $block -ArgumentList $siteName 

Answer 2

You can try to stop the App Pool of the Website. So it will not load process.

Step will be, 1.Stop IIS Website. 2.Stop IIS Website App Pool. 3.Copy Files