How to Deploy Blazor PWA App With Rest API (In Virtual Directory) on IIS

Question

step 1 - i have a simple blazor pwa app which we hosting in sub domain.
Step 2 - Created new virtual directory Step 3 - Uploaded APIERP within that virtaul drectory

As blazor is SPA it stops accesss of virtual directory due to routing

i tried to edit web.config in order to rewrite URL but cant get it to work

    <?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
<configuration>
  <system.webServer>
    <staticContent>
      <remove fileExtension=".blat" />
      <remove fileExtension=".dat" />
      <remove fileExtension=".dll" />
      <remove fileExtension=".json" />
      <remove fileExtension=".wasm" />
      <remove fileExtension=".woff" />
      <remove fileExtension=".woff2" />
      <mimeMap fileExtension=".blat" mimeType="application/octet-stream" />
      <mimeMap fileExtension=".dll" mimeType="application/octet-stream" />
      <mimeMap fileExtension=".dat" mimeType="application/octet-stream" />
      <mimeMap fileExtension=".json" mimeType="application/json" />
      <mimeMap fileExtension=".wasm" mimeType="application/wasm" />
      <mimeMap fileExtension=".woff" mimeType="application/font-woff" />
      <mimeMap fileExtension=".woff2" mimeType="application/font-woff" />
    </staticContent>
    <httpCompression>
      <dynamicTypes>
        <add mimeType="application/octet-stream" enabled="true" />
        <add mimeType="application/wasm" enabled="true" />
      </dynamicTypes>
    </httpCompression>
    <rewrite>
      <rules>
        <rule name="Serve subdir">
          <match url=".*" />
          <action type="Rewrite" url="wwwroot\{R:0}" />
        </rule>
        <rule name="SPA fallback routing" stopProcessing="true">
          <match url=".*" />
          <conditions logicalGrouping="MatchAll">
            <add input="{REQUEST_FILENAME}" matchType="IsFile" negate="true" />
          </conditions>
          <action type="Rewrite" url="wwwroot\" />
        </rule>
      </rules>
    </rewrite>
  </system.webServer>
</configuration>

This is default web.config file of blazor how can add new rule so that it doesnot intercept url for api e.g mysite.com/apierp/..

Answer 1

A Rewrite action replaces the current URL string with a substitution string. A substitution string must always specify the URL path (for example, contoso/test/default.aspx). Note that substitutions that contain a physical path on a file system (for example, C:\inetpub\wwwroot) are not supported in IIS.

For how to create rewrite rules for URL rewrite module, you can refer to this document. You can also read the URL Rewrite Module Configuration Reference.

In addition, when you get the error while using the URL rewrite module, you can use Failed Request Tracing to trace rewrite rules.