How To: Windows Plesk and NodeJS

Hello All,

After spending sometime today setting up my Plesk Server for staging, I’ve run into some issues. I got it to work on Windows 2022, here is how:

This setup is strictly for Windows Plesk Server:

We will use “httpdocs” to host our app.

1. Inside of Wappler targets ftp setup remote Directory:

2. Go into “Websites & Domains” > “Hosting Settings” and ensure that “Document Root” is equals to httpdocs

3. Go into Node.js settings and ensure that BOTH “Document Root” and “Application Root” are pointing to /httpdocs . They should be the same. (I know, I know… Wappler docs said differently, but this is for Windows and Plesk docs said this is the way for Windows)

4. Using file manager’s “Change Permissions” ensure that “Application pool group” has all permissions on /httpdocs directory. This is required for when we run build inside httpdocs

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5. Create a file called web.config inside /httpdocs
<configuration> <system.webServer> <rewrite> <rules> <rule name=“server“> <match url=“/*“ /> <action type=“Rewrite“ url=“index.js“ /> </rule> </rules> </rewrite> </system.webServer> </configuration>