Deploying to Microsoft Internet Information Server (IIS)

Internet Information Services (IIS) for Windows® Server is a flexible, secure and manageable Web server for hosting anything on the Web. From media streaming to web applications, IIS’s scalable and open architecture is ready to handle the most demanding tasks.

Prerequisites

• A Gatsby project set up. (Need help creating one? Follow the Quick Start)

Instructions

wwwroot

Deploying to IIS is a matter of running gatsby build and copying the contents of your local public folder to the wwwroot folder of your IIS web server.

Caching

One important and sometimes overlooked aspect is to configure caching correctly. The following configuration will give you a good starting point in line with Gatsby’s suggested approach to caching.

• Install the IIS URL Rewrite module if it’s not already there. It’s required to define the outboundRules in the web.config given below.
• Add a web.config file to the static folder of your Gatsby project. It will be copied unchanged to the public folder during gatsby build.

Please note that local settings you make for your web in IIS Manager change the web.config file. You have to be careful to copy any changes to web.config on your server back to the version in your Gatsby static folder.

Limitations

IIS doesn’t support advanced features like SSR, DSG, or Image CDN. You can get all features and faster builds by signing up to Gatsby Cloud.