tjanczuk/iisnode — Issue #116: built-in debugger doesn't work with an error (Azure SDK)
Author: vasili-zolotov
Created: 2011-12-14 23:46:29+00:00
State: open

After installing Azure SDK on a Windows 7 windows dev box VM (Parallels), built in debugger doesn't work. At the same time log over http works when enabled.

GET http://localhost/server.js/debug/

Results in:

The iisnode module is unable to deploy supporting files necessary to initialize the debugger. Please check that the identity of the IIS application pool running the node.js application has read and write access permissions to the directory on the server where the node.js application is located.

Granted NTFS permissions to 'Everyone'. Tried running the app pool as SYSTEM. To no avail. The only thing that worked for debugging was to add "--debug" via Web.Config and to install standalone node-inspector. Now I get it, but it wasn't straightforward for a newcomer.