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Serving static files in IISNODE by rewriting StaticFiles URLs

I am trying to deploy a Node.js application in IIS. I saw the samples in the GitHub repository ( https://github.com/tjanczuk/iisnode/tree/master/src/samples ).

I am stuck with serving static files. Like a regular Node application, I saved static files in a folder called public. As suggested by several blogs / forums, I added the following rule to web.config:

<rule name="StaticContent"> <action type="Rewrite" url="public{REQUEST_URI}"/> </rule>

But that will not work. If someone has an example application demonstrating this problem, this will be very helpful.

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Check out the iisnode web.config sample, which redirects requests for static files in the public folder to the IIS static file handler instead of Node.js at http://tomasz.janczuk.org/2012/05/yaml-configuration-support-in-iisnode. html

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If someone comes across this question on Google and is having problems with the web.config sample mentioned in the accepted answer ...

This is the web.config file that worked for me:

 <?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8"?> <configuration> <system.webServer> <handlers> <add name="iisnode" path="server/app.js" verb="*" modules="iisnode" /> </handlers> <rewrite> <rules> <rule name="LogFile" patternSyntax="ECMAScript" stopProcessing="true"> <match url="iisnode" /> </rule> <rule name="NodeInspector" patternSyntax="ECMAScript" stopProcessing="true"> <match url="^server\/app.js\/debug[\/]?" /> </rule> <rule name="StaticContent" patternSyntax="ECMAScript" stopProcessing="true"> <match url=".*" /> <action type="Rewrite" url="public/{C:1}" logRewrittenUrl="true" /> <conditions> <add input="{REQUEST_URI}" pattern=".*?virtualpath\/(.*)" /> </conditions> </rule> <rule name="DynamicContent" patternSyntax="ECMAScript"> <match url=".*" /> <conditions> <add input="{{REQUEST_FILENAME}}" matchType="IsFile" negate="True" /> </conditions> <action type="Rewrite" url="server/app.js" logRewrittenUrl="true" /> </rule> </rules> </rewrite> <security> <requestFiltering> <hiddenSegments> <add segment="node_modules" /> </hiddenSegments> </requestFiltering> </security> </system.webServer> </configuration>

My folder structure:

  • virtualpath / - refers to the configured IIS virtual path
    • public / - contains static content
    • server / - contains server application files
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