How to Restart IIS via Command Line

We have two options to Start, Stop to Restart IIS service on windows. You can do it directly from the Windows services center or you can do it directly via the command line.

To do this you must have Administrative access to your system. Open Windows command prompt “run as Administrator” and follow the below instructions.

If you are directly logged in with the Administrator account you can run the same commands through run Window in your Windows system.

1. Start IIS via Command Line

Use following command to start IIS service on Windows operating systems. Either use Windows command prompt to run this command or execute it from run window.

To start IIS on command line, Open terminal and type:

c:/> iisreset /start

Press WIN + R to open Run window. Type the same command on run window and press enter:

2. Stop IIS via Command Line:

Use following command to stop IIS service on Windows operating systems. Either use Windows command prompt to run this command or execute it from run window.

c:/> iisreset /stop

To stop IIS on command line, open terminal and type:

Press WIN + R to open Run window. Type the same command on run window and press enter:

3. ReStart IIS via Command Line:

Use the following command to restart IIS service on Windows operating systems. Either use the Windows command prompt to run this command or execute it from the run window.

c:/> iisreset /restart

[or]

c:/> iisreset

Default iisreset command restarts the IIS service. So you don’t need to provide /restart parameter option to iisreset command to restart IIS service.

To restart IIS on command line, open terminal and type:

Press WIN + R to open Run window. Type the same command on run window and press enter: