prerendercloud-iis

IIS web.config for pre-rendering JavaScript single page apps with Headless-Render-API.com (formerly named prerender.cloud from 2016 - 2022)

Usage

It's possible your IIS server may already have steps 1 and 2 and 4 mostly done already - in which case, just go to step 5.

1. use the Web Platform Installer to install "URL Rewrite" (see more here if having problems)
2. use the Web Platform Installer to install "Application Request Routing"
   • Enable reverse proxy in "Application Request Routing" for your site
3. restart IIS entirely
4. create a file (if it doesn't already exist) named web.config and put it in the root of the directory serving your website
5. add a server variable for HTTP_X_PRERENDER_TOKEN (see screenshot below)
6. modify web.config
   • add your Headless-Render-API.com API token
   • hardcode the protocol in the url attr of the <action type="Rewrite" /> tag to be (http or https) for your site