IT:AD:Node.JS:HowTo:Install IISNode Module

* Ensure Url-Rewrite extension to IIS is installed: http://www.iis.net/downloads/microsoft/url-rewrite

• Download x64 package of IISNode.
  • See: https://github.com/tjanczuk/iisnode
  • Package: https://github.com/tjanczuk/iisnode/wiki/iisnode-releases
• Install, but note that 20121022 ran into this error, where it was looking for 32bit version of Node.JS:

The first part of the work around (discussed in this thread is to copy the Node.js files to the target dir to fool the installer)

Then have to read here regarding setting nodeProcessCommandLine to point to real direction.

If you get past that, ensure the Module is installed:

Proceed with setting up samples, from the command prompt (in admin mode) call %programfiles%\iisnode\setupsamples.bat

Check that the website was created:

then go check that http://localhost/node exists

The first time I navigated to the samples website, from the server itself, I got:

Ah. Yes. Newly created sample app in an site I usually shut down. Simple enough to fix:

Navigating to the fist sample I got:

but then I got:

The error message simply leads to understanding that the web.config of the application has a web.config section to play with that gives a means to configure the IIS Module to know where to find node.js

<configuration>
  <system.webServer>

    <handlers>
      <add name="iisnode" path="hello.js" verb="*" modules="iisnode" />
    </handlers>

    <iisnode
	  ...
      nodeProcessCommandLine="&quot;%programfiles%\nodejs\node.exe&quot;" 
      interceptor="&quot;%programfiles%\iisnode\interceptor.js&quot;"
	  ...
	/>

  </system.webServer>
</configuration>

But…unfortunately for me, it's right. It's pointing to:

Finally,

Yay.

* Good early stuff: http://weblogs.asp.net/jgalloway/archive/2011/10/26/using-node-js-in-an-asp-net-mvc-application-with-iisnode.aspx * http://www.hanselman.com/blog/InstallingAndRunningNodejsApplicationsWithinIISOnWindowsAreYouMad.aspx

• Hum….not so hot at handling requests….(2.5 secs slower than IIS itself…)