IIS, NodeJS, IISNode, PhantomJS

Step by Step installing NodeJS and PhantomJS on IIS using IISNode

1. Download: latest NodeJS, IISNode, and PhantomJS for windows.
2. On the server, make sure IIS is activated from Windows Feature. If it is not activated, please activate first.
   Windows Feature - Internet Information Service - Web Management Tools - IIS 6 Management Tools
   More details see here
3. Install NodeJS
   No need to check anything after install. In here I use the default installation folder which is in C:\Program Files (x86)\nodejs
4. Install IISNode
   Similar with nodejs, IISNode is installed in the default folder.
   After install IISNode, need to do several steps below:
   • check iisnode folder after installation
   • inside the installation folder, it will contains several files as well a www folder. Add IIS_IUSRS to www folder security. Assign Read and Write permission. To make it simple I give Full Control access.
   • Create 1 website in IIS for IISNode, where the physical path is the www folder.
   • run setupsamples.bat
   • once success, go to the site that we setup to check is the iisnode configuration already correct.
   • on www folder, there are several folders and in each folder exist 1 web.config file. In this case, I only want to test the iisnode installation. Therefore, in helloworld folder, I modify the web.config to include the iisnode configuration below.
     

      <iisnode     
         node_env="%node_env%"  
         nodeProcessCountPerApplication="1"  
         maxConcurrentRequestsPerProcess="1024"  
         maxNamedPipeConnectionRetry="100"  
         namedPipeConnectionRetryDelay="250"     
         maxNamedPipeConnectionPoolSize="512"  
         maxNamedPipePooledConnectionAge="30000"  
         asyncCompletionThreadCount="0"  
         initialRequestBufferSize="4096"  
         maxRequestBufferSize="65536"  
         watchedFiles="*.js;iisnode.yml"  
         uncFileChangesPollingInterval="5000"     
         gracefulShutdownTimeout="60000"  
         loggingEnabled="true"  
         logDirectory="iisnode"  
         debuggingEnabled="true"  
         debugHeaderEnabled="false"  
         debuggerPortRange="5058-6058"  
         debuggerPathSegment="debug"  
         maxLogFileSizeInKB="128"  
         maxTotalLogFileSizeInKB="1024"  
         maxLogFiles="20"  
         devErrorsEnabled="true"  
         flushResponse="false"     
         enableXFF="false"  
         promoteServerVars=""  
         configOverrides="iisnode.yml"  
            nodeProcessCommandLine="C:\Program Files (x86)\nodejs\node.exe"  
         />  
     

   • We use nodeProcessCommandLine to specify the nodejs executable url.
   • Save the web.config and check whether helloworld.js already opened ok in browser without any error in page.
5. After IISNode is working, extract PhantomJS to a folder.
   I extracted PhantomJS zip to C:\phantom
   • Need to add C:\phantom\bin (phantom.exe location) to windows PATH.
     Run in windows command prompt: setx path "%path%;C:\phantom\bin"
   • test by running : phantomjs --version into command prompt
     If it is showing the version then phantom is installed.
     If showing, phantom is not recognized then the server should be restarted.
   • After restart, check again the phantom version in command prompt