For bonus points, append ii to the first command to open in Explorer, or gci to list the contents of the folder. Enabling Tracing may be a better alternative to the Windows Event Log. This gave me the information I needed to fix my own WebService. How are we doing? Please help us improve Stack Overflow. Take our short survey. Stack Overflow for Teams — Collaborate and share knowledge with a private group. Create a free Team What is Teams? Collectives on Stack Overflow.
Learn more. Ask Question. Asked 10 years, 4 months ago. Active 1 year, 1 month ago. Viewed k times. So my question is: Where does IIS7 store logs by default?
Improve this question. Promise Preston Kjartan Kjartan Add a comment. Active Oldest Votes. Improve this answer. Thanks, this seems logical, but the logs directory is empty. I probably need to turn on logging somehow, but I can't find anything about logging in the middle panel in IIS Manager.
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Windows Registry Editor Version 5. Sign up or log in Sign up using Google. Sign up using Facebook. Sign up using Email and Password. Post as a guest Name. Email Required, but never shown. Using a script to delete log files is a long-term, reliable solution to the problem of log files consuming disk space.
If you automate the process, as shown below, it doesn't require constant maintenance. You can automate the task of deleting log files by script by creating a Windows task schedule to run the script periodically.
You can schedule the script to run at any time using the Windows Task Scheduler. How you configure the scheduled task should be coordinated with the configuration of the log file rollover options.
The tool runs in the background once every hour and cleans up the IIS log folder automatically, deleting log files older than a maximum age that you set. The log files are moved to the Recycle bin to avoid potential data loss. You can also run the cleaning process manually, and you can pause the automated process. The application is stored in a local folder that you select when you download the tool. The settings. These settings are configurable by either opening settings. Right-clicking the IIS notification icon displays a list of action commands and status settings:.
Feedback will be sent to Microsoft: By pressing the submit button, your feedback will be used to improve Microsoft products and services. Privacy policy. Skip to main content. This browser is no longer supported. Download Microsoft Edge More info. Contents Exit focus mode. Overview The log files that IIS generates can, over time, consume a large amount of disk space.
Fortunately, there are alternatives to doing so, such as the following: Enable folder compression Move the log folder to a remote system Delete old log files by script. You may also want to do the following to control disk usage: Limit log size by omitting unneeded property fields Create separate logs for Web sites and applications Preserve memory resources by using centralized binary logging.
Click the File Manager icon in the icon bar. Right-click on the folder and click Properties. On the General tab of the Properties page, click Advanced. Click Compress contents to save disk space , and then click OK. Click Apply , and then select whether to compress the folder only, or the folder, its subfolders, and its files. Just be aware that the server may have already created a log file in the new directory for the current day, but you can simply tell the copy to keep both files by renaming one of them.
We can also make the same configuration change using Powershell. From a Powershell window type the following commands. Actually, you only have to restart the website in order for the new log file location to take affect.
Add a line to your script to bounce the site and voila!!! For me in IIS 8.
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