Assign web site to existing instance *without* restarting IIS

Someone might assert that you could configure the IIS settings (handler mappings, wildcard mappings) manually, without need of an IIS restart. But that would only be so if a connector for that instance has already been built (there is a folder numbered other than “1” under C:\JRun4\lib\wsconfig, and the wsconfig.properties file shows an entry that indicates that a given site has been connected previously to that instance.)

If there’s not, then there’s no connector for that instance, and therefore you cannot do anything manually in IIS to connect to that instance, and you must run the wsconfig tool to create that connector.

If there is, then you will probably find that you could manually tweak the IIS handler mappings and wildcard mappings to point to the appropriate DLLs (two different ones for the two kinds of mappings), using an existing site’s mappings as a model.

But this is all very risky, if you break things. Since you’re desperate to connect a site to an instance without an IIS restart, I offer the info for your consideration, but I would caution that without experience or an experienced guide to help, it’s not something to consider rashly. And of course, you would not want to try it on a production server for your first time.

/charlie