Hosting node.js applications in IIS on Windows

Prerequisites

• Windows
• IIS 7.x with IIS Management Tools
• Latest node.exe Windows build from nodejs.org saved to %systemdrive%\node directory
• Visual Studio C++ Express (building iisnode only)
• IIS 7 header files from Windows SDK (building iisnode only)
• your favorite text editor; WebMatrix is recommended (developing node.js apps on Windows only)

Building

For 32 bit Windows:

msbuild /p:Platform=Win32 src\iisnode\iisnode.sln

For 64 bit Windows:

msbuild /p:Platform=x64 src\iisnode\iisnode.sln

Installing for IIS 7.x after build

build\debug\%PROCESSOR_ARCHITECTURE%\install.bat

Installing for IIS 7.x from a download

• Download and unzip desired build for 32 or 64 bit Windows
• call install.bat

Installing for IIS Express/WebMatrix

• Check out the walkthhrough

Samples

http://localhost/node

Resources & documentation

• https://github.com/tjanczuk/iisnode/wiki
• http://tomasz.janczuk.org