Serving static files in IISNODE with StaticFiles URL Rewrite

Question

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

I am stuck at serving static files. Like a normal Node application, I stored the static files in a folder named public. As per suggestions on several blogs/forums I added the following rule to web.config:

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

But it doesn't work. If anyone has a sample application demonstrating this issue, it would be of great help.

Answer 1

In case anyone comes across this question on Google and had problems with the sample web.config 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 is:

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

Answer 2

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