#iisnode

Serve Nodejs requests through IIS

Environment –

Windows Server 2016 x64

IIS 10.0

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Tools/libraries you need

IIS URL Rewrite extension – https://www.iis.net/downloads/microsoft/url-rewrite

latest node.js x64 binaries – https://nodejs.org

latest iisnode v0.22.1 x64 – https://github.com/tjanczuk/iisnode/releases/download/v0.2.21/iisnode-full-v0.2.21-x64.msi

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This is an update to my previous post: http://www.philipholly.com/post/64211668657/node-js-iisnode-prerender-io-phantom-phantomjs

Current hardware/software:

Windows 8.1

Visual Studio 2013

Git Extensions (including git bash)

Since I got a new work laptop, I needed to resetup my local websites.

This are the steps I went through to get a local instance of prerender.io up and running locally in a node.js server. Much easier than last time! I didn't need to install phantom.js server first. That simplified a lot. And maybe because I have Visual Studio 2013 instead of 2012 installed things just worked. I don't know.

Download node.js for windows

Run node.js windows installer

Let it add node to your path

Open Git Bash and navigate to the directory where you want to host your prerender server

run Git clone https://github.com/collectiveip/prerender.git. Instructions are here: https://prerender.io/server

Run npm install

I got the error: Npm install failed: pyhton 2.6 or 2.7 is required to build

Download python 2.7.6 Windows Installer: https://www.python.org/download/

Run python installer

Exit out of console

Open a new git bash window and navigate to your prerender project

Run npm install

This time it should work - I did get one warning C4506 but it doesn’t' look like it's a showstopper

That's it! This time I didn't have to install phantomjs server separately. Maybe last time I didn't but I didn't know that? I don't know.

Follow the instructions here: https://prerender.io/server to test if it worked