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 Windows services center or you can do it directly via command line.

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

If you are directly logged in with 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.

c:/> iisreset /start

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

3. ReStart IIS via Command Line:

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