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node.jsiis-8.5iisnode
incutonez
incutonez

Reputation: 3331

iisnode not starting node process

I have a very simple nodejs https server that I'm trying to get working with iisnode, but it doesn't appear that the node process is starting, so I get a 500 error when I try to navigate to it.

const express = require('express');
const app = express();
const bodyParser = require('body-parser');
const fs = require('fs');
const cors = require('cors');
var https = require('https');

app.use(bodyParser.json());
app.use(cors());

app.get('/', function (req, res) {
  res.send('Hello World!')
});

var secureServer = https.createServer({
  key: fs.readFileSync('private.key'),
  cert: fs.readFileSync('certificate.pem')
}, app).listen(process.env.PORT || 3443, function () {
    console.log('Secure Server listening on port 3443');
});

This application starts fine if I do node server.js, but when I try to rely on the node virtual directory that was set up by the setupsamples.bat script, it doesn't seem to work. My Web.config also looks like this:

<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
<configuration>
  <system.webServer>
    <handlers>
      <add name="iisnode" path="server.js" verb="*" modules="iisnode" />
    </handlers>
    <modules>
      <remove name="MyAuthModule" />
    </modules>
    <security>
      <authorization>
        <add accessType="Allow" users="?" />
      </authorization>
    </security>
    <rewrite>
      <rules>
        <rule name="mcServer">
          <match url="mcServer/*" />
          <action type="Rewrite" url="server.js" />
        </rule>
      </rules>
    </rewrite>
  </system.webServer>
</configuration>

MyAuthModule is a custom authentication module that was set up for me in my environment, so if I don't have that remove statement, I get an error about the module not existing.

I placed server.js, the Web.config displayed above, and the certificate files into its own mcServer directory in iisnode/www directory that was created by running the setupsample.bat script. When I navigate to https://myUrl/node/mcServer, I get a 500 error, but if I navigate to https://myUrl/node, it displays the different apps that are available, and like I said, the node process is not running, so I think that's part of the 500 error that I get.

It's also good to note that I installed the url rewrite module, so that shouldn't be the issue, and helloworld/readme.htm, but once again, I'm assuming this is because node hasn't started.

I must be doing something totally stupid, but I cannot figure it out.

Upvotes: 0

Views: 1541

Answers (1)

incutonez
incutonez

Reputation: 3331

There were several things that I had wrong:

  • I was trying to use npm link <module_name>, but that apparently doesn't work with IIS, so I did npm install for all of the modules that I needed
  • My match url should be /*, not mcServer/*
  • In my server.js file, I need to prepend app.get with app.get('/mcServer/'

Upvotes: 1

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