Adding environment variables to APP Pool¶
The following example adds an environment variable to an application pool.
<applicationPools>
<add name="Contoso" managedRuntimeVersion="v4.0" managedPipelineMode="Classic">
<environmentVariables>
<add name="foo" value="bar" />
</environmentVariables>
</add>
</applicationPools>
you can also add environment vars using appcmd
tool
%systemroot%\system32\inetsrv\appcmd.exe set config -section:system.applicationHost/applicationPools /+"[name='Contoso'].environmentVariables.[name='foo',value='bar']" /commit:apphost