How to deploy angular-cli app on iis

Question

I have simple angular2-cli app (one page with model driven form - no router involved). With "ng serve" all works fine. I made production version with ng build --product. I copied all ./dist folder content into new folder under C:\inetpub\wwwroot. I made virtual app from IIS managment console. Defualt app file is index.html. I browse to app uri and i get only page with "Loading...". I try build without --product switch (only ng build) but result is the same. Angular app is not loading. Is there anything else needed to publish angular app on IIS?

Answer 1

Here is how I solve this situation;

• Create project with angular-cli
• Build your application with ng build
• Open IIS, create new virtual directory and show dist folder
• Set base href in your index.html from / to /yourAliasNameOnIIS

• Use this web.config for redirecting requests to your index.html page

  <system.webServer>
  <rewrite>
    <rules>
      <rule name="AngularJS Routes" stopProcessing="true">
        <match url=".*" />
        <conditions logicalGrouping="MatchAll">
          <add input="{REQUEST_FILENAME}" matchType="IsFile" negate="true" />
          <add input="{REQUEST_FILENAME}" matchType="IsDirectory" negate="true" />
          <add input="{REQUEST_URI}" pattern="^/(api)" negate="true" />
        </conditions>
        <action type="Rewrite" url="/yourAliasNameOnIIS" />
      </rule>
    </rules>
  </rewrite>
  

• Convert your virtual directory to a web application

You can also use ng build --deploy-url "/yourAliasNameOnIIS" to change src path in dist/index.html.

I hope it helps!

Answer 2

When you open the dev tools of your browser, you would have seen 404 messages when the app was trying to donwload the js, css etc files

You need to set the base href in index.html to

<base href="./">

this will make sure the base ref is relative to where your website lives in IIS. You also need to use hash location strategy otherwise, IIS will intercept your ng2 router URL changes and try to find a controller/action for the URL.

under the imports of your app.module.ts:

RouterModule.forRoot(routerConfig, { useHash: true })

I have done these 2 steps and all is working perfectly on Azure VM with IIS. Doing it this way also means it you do not have to put your SPA on the root and you can have multiple SPA's running happily next to each other (in different websites on IIS)

Answer 3

For me, it was very simple:

1. Run the ng build command. It will generate the dist folder.
2. Make href="" in the index.html file.
3. Give the dist folder path to IIS application and it will work.

This makes it even simpler, you do not need to modify the index.html file:

ng build -prod --base-href

Answer 4

I referred many suggestion, what worked for me was this link

A good explanation why things need to be configured in a different way for an Angular app are clearly described here. Followed the steps in the link and then I added a web.config within the published files folder location with the below settings:

<?xml version="1.0"?>
<configuration>
<system.webServer>  
    <rewrite>
      <rules>
        <rule name="AngularJS Routes" stopProcessing="true">
          <match url=".*" />
          <conditions logicalGrouping="MatchAll">
            <add input="{REQUEST_FILENAME}" matchType="IsFile" negate="true" />
            <add input="{REQUEST_FILENAME}" matchType="IsDirectory" negate="true" />
            <add input="{REQUEST_URI}" pattern="^/(api)" negate="true" />
          </conditions>
          <action type="Rewrite" url="/" />
        </rule>
      </rules>
  </rewrite>
 </system.webServer>
</configuration>

The settings are also described in the link above. Hope this help someone.

Answer 5

I tried the below approach it worked.

1. Create new website in IIS (through inetmgr)
2. use "ng build --prod" - generating production version code
3. Copy the dist folder's files then paste it to root folder of IIS website (Don't copy the folder and put that into root folder of IIS Website which will cause an issue)
4. Set the credentials, authorization and etc... from your end.
5. Set the root folder's access permission for "MACHINE_NAME\IIS_IUSRS & MACHINE_NAME\NETWORK SERVICE"
6. Set the default page as "index.html" in IIS
7. Now you can browse the website.

Answer 6

In addition to ulubeyn's answer that mostly worked for me, I added my own IIS re-write rules to enable:

1) the initial redirection from /dist to alias 2) Javascript downloads from alias and 3) Angular routing on the alias

<rules>
  <rule name="Redirect from blank URL to IIS Alias" stopProcessing="true">
    <match url="^/?$" />
    <action type="Rewrite" url="/MyDist" />
  </rule>
  <rule name="Redirect from /dist folder to IIS Alias" stopProcessing="true">
    <match url="^(.*)/dist" />
    <action type="Rewrite" url="/yourAliasNameOnIIS" />
  </rule>
  <rule name="Allow Angular URL Routing on IIS Alias" stopProcessing="true">
    <match url="^yourAliasNameOnIIS/*" />
    <conditions logicalGrouping="MatchAll">
      <add input="{REQUEST_FILENAME}" matchType="IsFile" negate="true" />
      <add input="{REQUEST_FILENAME}" matchType="IsDirectory" negate="true" />
      <add input="{REQUEST_URI}" pattern="^/(api)" negate="true" />
    </conditions>
    <action type="Rewrite" url="/yourAliasNameOnIIS" />
  </rule>
  <rule name="Redirect to IIS Alias folder with parameters" stopProcessing="true">
    <match url="(.*)" />
    <conditions logicalGrouping="MatchAll">
      <add input="{REQUEST_FILENAME}" matchType="IsFile" negate="true" />
      <add input="{REQUEST_FILENAME}" matchType="IsDirectory" negate="true" />
      <add input="{REQUEST_URI}" pattern="^/(api)" negate="true" />
    </conditions>
    <action type="Rewrite" url="/yourAliasNameOnIIS/{R:1}" appendQueryString="true" />
  </rule>
</rules>

Answer 7

for those who use angular i18n, you have to build the app for each language and put them in separate folders

ng build --output-path=dist/fr --prod --bh /fr/
ng build --output-path=dist/en --prod --bh /en/

and here is the config for iis

<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
 <configuration>
  <system.webServer>
    <directoryBrowse enabled="true" />
    <rewrite>
        <rules>
            <rule name="Imported Rule 1" stopProcessing="true">
                <match url="^../index\.html$" ignoreCase="false" />
                <action type="None" />
            </rule>
            <rule name="Imported Rule 2" stopProcessing="true">
                <match url="(..)" ignoreCase="false" />
                <conditions logicalGrouping="MatchAll">
                    <add input="{REQUEST_FILENAME}" matchType="IsFile" ignoreCase="false" negate="true" />
                    <add input="{REQUEST_FILENAME}" matchType="IsDirectory" ignoreCase="false" negate="true" />
                </conditions>
                <action type="Rewrite" url="{R:1}/index.html" />
            </rule>
            <rule name="Imported Rule 3">
                <match url="^$" ignoreCase="false" />
                <conditions logicalGrouping="MatchAll">
                    <add input="{HTTP_ACCEPT_LANGUAGE}" pattern="^fr" />
                </conditions>
                <action type="Redirect" url="/fr/" redirectType="Found" />
            </rule>
            <rule name="Imported Rule 5">
                <match url="^$" ignoreCase="false" />
                <conditions logicalGrouping="MatchAll">
                    <add input="{HTTP_ACCEPT_LANGUAGE}" pattern="^es" negate="true" />
                </conditions>
                <action type="Redirect" url="/en/" redirectType="Found" />
            </rule>
        </rules>
    </rewrite>
 </system.webServer>
 </configuration>

Answer 8

You can deploy it without any Web.config file as below,

---

You can find index.html in dist folder inside it find base href tag

now change its path as accordingly

Ex -: if deploying inside wwwroot

<base href="/">

Ex-: if deploying inside a folder in wwwroot

<base href="/FolderName/">

Answer 9

add web.config file to location app/src/ content of web.config:

<?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8"?>
<configuration>    
<system.webServer>
  <rewrite>
    <rules>
      <rule name="Angular Routes" stopProcessing="true">
        <match url=".*" />
        <conditions logicalGrouping="MatchAll">
          <add input="{REQUEST_FILENAME}" matchType="IsFile" negate="true" />
          <add input="{REQUEST_FILENAME}" matchType="IsDirectory" negate="true" />
        </conditions>
        <action type="Rewrite" url="./index.html" />
      </rule>
    </rules>
  </rewrite>
</system.webServer>
</configuration>

---

in .angular-cli.json add web.config to assets section as follows:

"assets": [
    "assets",
    "favicon.ico",
    "web.config"
],

Answer 10

On IIS, you have to copy a web.config to the deployed folder:

<?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8"?>
<configuration>

<system.webServer>
  <security>
    <requestFiltering>
      <fileExtensions>
        <add fileExtension=".json" allowed="true" />
        <add fileExtension=".woff2" allowed="true" />
      </fileExtensions>
    </requestFiltering>
  </security>
  <staticContent>
    <remove fileExtension=".woff2" />
    <mimeMap fileExtension=".woff2" mimeType="application/json" />
    <remove fileExtension=".json" />
    <mimeMap fileExtension=".json" mimeType="application/json" />
  </staticContent>
  <rewrite>
    <rules>
      <rule name="Angular Routes" stopProcessing="true">
        <match url=".*" />
        <conditions logicalGrouping="MatchAll">
          <add input="{REQUEST_FILENAME}" matchType="IsFile" negate="true" />
          <add input="{REQUEST_FILENAME}" matchType="IsDirectory" negate="true" />
        </conditions>
        <action type="Rewrite" url="./index.html" />
      </rule>
    </rules>
  </rewrite>
</system.webServer>

</configuration>

You can automatized like this creating the web.config file inside src and then adding this on .angular-cli.json:

"assets": [
    "assets",
    "favicon.ico",
    "web.config"
],

Answer 11

what worked for me and very easy was to first configure my route as such

RouterModule.forRoot([
--some routes-- 
], { useHash: true })

so all my routes had # in front of them then use

ng build --base-href "./" --prod 

to build and then deployed my app in a folder inside wwwwroot.

Answer 12

Follow below steps:

1. run below command. [ng build --prod --base-href='/']
2. Create a folder i.e. "D:\SmartTrader-Angular"
3. Copy dist content to D:\SmartTrader-Angular folder
4. Create IIS site
5. No need to create web.config file.
6. Restart site in IIS.
7. It should be working now.