Setup laravel 5.4 with IIS 10 - laravel

Question

I want to deploy laravel projects on our IIS 10, running on windows server 2016. What is the easiest and still secure way to do that?

Answer 1

This is how I did it; I'm not sure it is the right way.
Install URL Rewrite module (https://www.iis.net/downloads/microsoft/url-rewrite)
Put repo in some folder E:/sites/helloworld
In IIS add a virtual directory called "helloworld" pointing to E:/sites/helloworld/public
Make sure folders bootstrap/cache and storage is open for writing.
Dont forget to make env file.
In your web.php route file put:
Route::get('/', function () {
return view('welcome');
});
Route::get('/also', function () {
return view('welcome');
});
Add the file web.config in public dir and paste the rules:
<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
<configuration>
<system.webServer>
<rewrite>
<rules>
<rule name="Rule 1" stopProcessing="true">
<match url="^(.*)/$" ignoreCase="false" />
<action type="Redirect" redirectType="Permanent" url="/{R:1}" />
</rule>
<rule name="Rule 2" stopProcessing="true">
<match url="^" ignoreCase="false" />
<conditions>
<add input="{REQUEST_FILENAME}" matchType="IsDirectory" ignoreCase="false" negate="true" />
<add input="{REQUEST_FILENAME}" matchType="IsFile" ignoreCase="false" negate="true" />
</conditions>
<action type="Rewrite" url="index.php" />
</rule>
</rules>
</rewrite>
</system.webServer>
</configuration>
You should now be able to access both URLs meaning laravel routing works as intended. If you try another non-existent route you will get a laravel exception.