Default root (server.js) file for node.js site on windows azure

Question

It seems like Windows Azure expects that your node.js site should run with:

node server.js

Is there a way to change this command? Specifically, my application's root is index.js intead of server.js, so I'd prefer that it did:

node index.js

Anyone know if this is configurable? And even if it is, is it generally considered bad form to have anything other than server.js?

Answer 1

What worked for me was generalhenry's suggestion above:

In package.json, add:

"scripts": {
    "start": "node index.js"
}

Answer 2

None of the solutions above worked for me. Searching for another thing, i've found the solution. You have to set your entrypoint in web.config file which is a xml file. Check this example file (you just have to replace server.js with whatever you want):

<?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8"?>
<configuration>
    <system.webServer>         
      <handlers>
           <add name="iisnode" path="server.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.js\/debug[\/]?" />
                </rule>
                <rule name="StaticContent">
                     <action type="Rewrite" url="public{{REQUEST_URI}}"/>
                </rule>
                <rule name="DynamicContent">
                     <conditions>
                          <add input="{{REQUEST_FILENAME}}" matchType="IsFile" negate="True"/>
                     </conditions>
                     <action type="Rewrite" url="server.js"/>
                </rule>
           </rules>
      </rewrite>
   </system.webServer>
 </configuration>