Enable Helicon Ape on newly created site (via Command line)

[rojastpa Profile]

Hello experts! Question for you. We have a powershell script that'll create our site, set our bindings, etc. all of it. The only thing we don't know how to do is how to Enable Helicon Ape on the newly created site via command line. Any suggestions would be GREATLY appreciated.

[Yaroslav]

Hello.

From your question I suppose Ape is not enabled globally on the server as by default, otherwise you wouldn't need to enable it on a site level. Ape is a managed IIS Module and Handler (both in one dll in fact). You can launch Helicon Ape Manager, right click on any website and select Enable Ape. This will create appropriate entries in web.config file in the root of this website. Entries depend on the version you have installed and should look like:

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        <handlers>
            <add name="Helicon.Ape Handler" path="*.apehandler" verb="*" type="Helicon.Ape.Handler, Helicon.Ape, Version=3.1.0.253, Culture=neutral, PublicKeyToken=95bfbfd1a38437eb" resourceType="Unspecified" preCondition="integratedMode" />
        </handlers>
        <modules>
            <add name="Helicon.Ape" type="Helicon.Ape.ApeModule, Helicon.Ape, Version=3.1.0.253, Culture=neutral, PublicKeyToken=95bfbfd1a38437eb" />
        </modules>


The verison and PublicKeyToken are hardcoded, unfortunately this is the only way how IIS can enable managed module installed in GAC, so goodbye easy upgrades. BTW Ape installation program scan your websites for these entries and update information upon upgrade.

So, what you need is to use appcmd tol to add Handler ( https://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/lib ... 47(v=ws.10).aspx ) and Module ( https://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/lib ... 39(v=ws.10).aspx ), providing appropriate data to it.

[rojastpa Profile]

How do we enable Ape globally on IIS 8.5 by default?

[Yaroslav]

If you run Ape installation and didn't uncheck 'Enable Ape globally' checkbox, then it is enabled. You can run Helicon Ape Manager, right click on root 'IIS ...' node and select 'Enable Helicon Ape' to enable it globally if it is not already is. After that any newly created IIS website will have Ape enabled, unless you explicitely reset modules and handlers for it.

[rojastpa Profile]

right click on root 'IIS ...' node and select 'Enable Helicon Ape' to enable it globally if it is not already is. After that any newly created IIS website will have Ape enabled, unless you explicitely reset modules and handlers for it.

Awesome Yaroslav! This wasn't enabled. Will monitor going forward. Much appreciated!