Migrate to pm2 on IIS

This document illustrates migration from tjanczuk/iisnode to the node native process manager, pm2 (http://pm2.keymetrics.io/) on windows with IIS. This fixes a DAT startup error and allows for more flexibility in setup and maintenance.

Install Advanced Request Routing:

Open inetmgr

Open Web Platform Installer

Search for and install Advanced Request Routing

Enable proxy:

Open Advanced Request Routing from inetmgr

Click Server Proxy Settings from Proxy

Select Enable Proxy checkbox

Select PassThrough for HTTP Version dropdown

Traffic to [server]:/api/* will need to be routed to port 3000. An example web.config accomplishing this is below.

<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>

<configuration>

    <system.webServer>

       <rewrite>

           <rules>

               <rule name="ReverseProxyInboundRule1" stopProcessing="true">

                   <match url="(api/.*)" />

                   <action type="Rewrite" url="http://localhost:3000/{R:1}" />

               </rule>

           </rules>

       </rewrite>

    </system.webServer>

</configuration>

Install pm2:

Open terminal and type

npm install -g pm2

Start pm2:

Navigate to DAT folder in terminal and type

pm2 start bin/www

For questions/comments contact Tobias Nteireho (tobias@cali.org)