How to host a service and static content in iisnode - node.js

Question

I have my website working within express. But now I need to host it on IIS. How can I get my routing to work with IISNode?
I was able to move my static content to a /public folder (html, front end js, etc). I didn't want to do this, but got that part working.
I moved my server side logic to /server.
I had previously had .Net Web API style routing working, where my services were hosted at /api. I moved these to /server/api.
Whenever I try to request my API, I get a 404. How can I get this working with IISNode?
app.use("/api", require("./api"));
// routes/api/index.js
var router = require('express').Router();
router.use('/questionsets', require('./questionsets'));
module.exports = router;
var router = require('express').Router();
router.use('/questionsets', require('./questionsets.js'));
module.exports = router;
// routes/api/questions.js
var router = require('express').Router();
router.get('/', function (req, res) {
...
});
router.get('/:id', function (req, res) {
...
});
module.exports = router;
<?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8"?>
<configuration>
<system.webServer>
<security>
<requestFiltering>
<hiddenSegments>
<remove segment="bin" />
</hiddenSegments>
</requestFiltering>
</security>
<handlers>
<add name="iisnode" path="bin/www" verb="*" modules="iisnode" />
</handlers>
<iisnode loggingEnabled="false" />
<httpErrors errorMode="Detailed" existingResponse="Replace">
<remove statusCode="404" subStatusCode="-1" />
<error statusCode="404" prefixLanguageFilePath="" path="/" responseMode="ExecuteURL" />
</httpErrors>
<rewrite>
<rules>
<rule name="LogFile" patternSyntax="ECMAScript" stopProcessing="true">
<match url="iisnode" />
</rule>
<rule name="NodeInspector" patternSyntax="ECMAScript" stopProcessing="true">
<match url="^bin\/www\/debug[\/]?" />
</rule>
<rule name="StaticContent" patternSyntax="ECMAScript" stopProcessing="true">
<match url=".*" />
<action type="Rewrite" url="{C:1}" logRewrittenUrl="true" />
<conditions>
<add input="{REQUEST_URI}" pattern=".*?\/(.*)" />
</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>
</system.webServer>
</configuration>
Source for url rewriting configuration

Answer 1

You need to install Application Request Routing here , and the documentation here.
Simply putting your server side files under /server would not work.
Start your express server, let's say listenning to http://localhost:3200/ ,
route request '/' to 'localhost:3200' will just route each request to your express server.