Deploying a Laravel app on Windows using IIS

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Deploying a Laravel app on Windows using IIS

Internet Information Services (IIS) Manager

IIS needs to be installed, open the Windows Features dialog to check the installation. One way to do this is by selecting the start button and type Windows Features to bring up a list where “Turn Windows features on or off” can be selected. Another way to get to this Control Panel app is Windows + R key combination and run appwiz.cpl. Turn Windows features on or off link should be in the upper left panel.

Windows Features

Notice that under .NET Framework 3.5 that both Windows Communication Foundation features are enabled. This may be needed in order for a successful install of PHP Manager. Installation of PHP Manager for IIS requires .NET 3.5 to work properly.

PHP and PHP Manager

[HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SYSTEM\CurrentControlSet\Services\W3SVC\Parameters]

* YMMV, I am not responsible if you hose your system when editing the registry.

PHP Extensions

In the Internet Information Services (IIS) Manager, Open PHP Manager and select the Enable or disable an extension link. Ensure that the extensions needed for Laravel are enabled. If you want to be able to connect to a SQLite database, enable the php_sqlite3.dll PHP extension. The figure below shows the PHP extensions I have enabled for a working Laravel 5 installation.

PHP Manager - PHP Extensions

Composer for Windows

Using the Windows Command Prompt, make sure Composer for Windows is installed by running the composer –version command.

composer --version

Git for Windows

Using the Windows Command Prompt, make sure Git for Windows is installed by running the git --version command.

git --version

Create Laravel Project

Bring up the Adminstrator Command Prompt. One way to do this is by selecting the start button and type command to bring up a list where “Command Prompt” can be selected. Right click on Command Prompt and select Run as administrator .

cd c:/intepub

composer create-project laravel/laravel laravel "5.3.*"

Add Website

Open Internet Information Services (IIS) Manager. Right click on the server and select Add Website. Fill out the form as follows: Site name: Laravel Application pool: DefaultAppPool Physical path: C:\inetpub\laravel\public Host name: laravel.win

Select “Test Settings” and then “OK” if successful.

IIS - Add Website

Hosts Mapping

Since the Host name laravel.win was entered for the website, the hosts file needs to be updated. Open Notepad as an administrator. One way to do this is by selecting the start button and type Notepad to bring up a list where it can be selected. Right click on Notepad and select Run as administrator.

Select File | Open, or Ctrl + O and change the File type from Text Documents (*.txt) to All Files (*.*). Browse to C:\Windows\System32\drivers\etc and select the hosts file. Add an entry to map localhost to laravel.win as follows.

hosts

127.0.0.1   localhost
127.0.0.1   laravel.win

Laravel Storage Permissions

In File Explorer, right click on the storage folder in C:\inetpub\laravel and select Properties. Under the Security tab, grant full control of the storage folder to IUSR as shown in the figure below.

Permissions for storage

Laravel web.config

Since IIS does not have an .htaccess file like Apache, create a web.config file in C:\inetpub\laravel\public as follows. *

web.config

<configuration>
    <system.webServer>
        <defaultDocument>
            <files>
                <clear />
                <add value="index.php" />
                <add value="default.aspx" />
                <add value="Default.htm" />
                <add value="Default.asp" />
                <add value="index.htm" />
                <add value="index.html" />
            </files>
        </defaultDocument>
        <rewrite>
            <rules>
                <rule name="Imported Rule 1" stopProcessing="true">
                    <match url="^(.*)/$" ignoreCase="false" />
                    <conditions>
                        <add input="{REQUEST_FILENAME}" matchType="IsDirectory" ignoreCase="false" negate="true" />
                    </conditions>
                    <action type="Redirect" redirectType="Permanent" url="/{R:1}" />
                </rule>
                <rule name="Imported 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>
        <httpErrors errorMode="Detailed" />
    </system.webServer>
</configuration>

Laravel SQLite Database

Create a SQLite database * in C:\inetpub\laravel\database. Edit C:\inetpub\laravel\.env database values to configure the database connection.

.env

DB_CONNECTION=sqlite
DB_HOST=127.0.0.1
DB_PORT=3306
DB_DATABASE=database/laravel.sqlite
DB_USERNAME=
DB_PASSWORD=

Restart IIS

In an Administrative Command Prompt, restart IIS so all of the changes get applied.

iisreset /restart

In IIS, make sure that the Larvel web site has been started. If the W3SVC service is not running, it can be started with the following command.

net start w3svc

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