Run Typemill on IIS

This installation guide below has been provided by sohamakl on GitHub.

Prerequisite

Make sure that the following tools and extensions are installed on your IIS server:

Composer for Windows: Required to update and install the external libraries for typemill if you use the GitHub-version).
curl: curl is required for several requests, e.g. the version check and the license activation. If you run into errors, then read this article about the handling of ssl certificates with curl on Windows. Make also sure that cainfo.pem is downloaded and php.ini is correctly configured if you run into troubles.
OpenSSL: OpenSSL is not available for IIS by default. There are workarounds in Typemill to handle verifications on a remote server, but if there is a possibility to install OpenSSL on the IIS server, then this is the better option.

You can also configure an own IIS Application Pool for Typemill.

Set IIS Folder Permissions

In the folder security configuration of each folder with write access, add the Windows Server local user groups IUSR and IIS_IUSRS as shown below.

web.config

First download and install URL Rewrite module for IIS if not already available. The easiest way to add the URL Rewrite configuration to the actual web.config is as follows:

Select the root folder of typemill in the IIS Configuration Manager.
Open the URL Rewriter configuration.
Select import, insert and import the content of the .htaccess file.
Remove the unneeded Flag NE and apply the configuration change.

Screenshot: Select URL rewrite module in IIS

Screenshot: Transform the apache rewrite roles in IIS

The web.config in the root directory of Typemill should look like this now:

<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
<configuration>
    <system.webServer>
        <rewrite>
            <rules>
                <rule name="Imported Rule 1" stopProcessing="true">
                    <match url="^" ignoreCase="false" />
                    <conditions logicalGrouping="MatchAll">
                        <add input="{URL}" pattern="^/index\.php" ignoreCase="false" negate="true" />
                        <add input="{REQUEST_FILENAME}" matchType="IsFile" ignoreCase="false" negate="true" />
                        <add input="{REQUEST_FILENAME}" matchType="IsDirectory" ignoreCase="false" negate="true" />
                    </conditions>
                    <action type="Rewrite" url="index.php" appendQueryString="true" />
                </rule>
                <rule name="Imported Rule 2" stopProcessing="true">
                    <match url="^(.*)?\.yml$" ignoreCase="false" />
                    <action type="CustomResponse" statusCode="403" statusReason="Forbidden" statusDescription="Forbidden" />
                </rule>
                <rule name="Imported Rule 3" stopProcessing="true">
                    <match url="^(.*)?\.yaml$" ignoreCase="false" />
                    <action type="CustomResponse" statusCode="403" statusReason="Forbidden" statusDescription="Forbidden" />
                </rule>
                <rule name="Imported Rule 4" stopProcessing="true">
                    <match url="^(.*)?\.txt$" ignoreCase="false" />
                    <action type="CustomResponse" statusCode="403" statusReason="Forbidden" statusDescription="Forbidden" />
                </rule>
                <rule name="Imported Rule 5" stopProcessing="true">
                    <match url="^(.*)?\.example$" ignoreCase="false" />
                    <action type="CustomResponse" statusCode="403" statusReason="Forbidden" statusDescription="Forbidden" />
                </rule>
                <rule name="Imported Rule 6" stopProcessing="true">
                    <match url="^(.*)?\.git+" ignoreCase="false" />
                    <action type="CustomResponse" statusCode="403" statusReason="Forbidden" statusDescription="Forbidden" />
                </rule>
                <rule name="Imported Rule 7" stopProcessing="true">
                    <match url="^(.*)?\.md" ignoreCase="false" />
                    <action type="CustomResponse" statusCode="403" statusReason="Forbidden" statusDescription="Forbidden" />
                </rule>
                <rule name="Imported Rule 8" stopProcessing="true">
                    <match url="^(.*)?\.ph" ignoreCase="false" />
                    <conditions logicalGrouping="MatchAll">
                        <add input="{URL}" pattern="/index\.php" ignoreCase="false" negate="true" />
                    </conditions>
                    <action type="CustomResponse" statusCode="403" statusReason="Forbidden" statusDescription="Forbidden" />
                </rule>
                <rule name="Imported Rule 9" stopProcessing="true">
                    <match url="^(.*)?\.twig" ignoreCase="false" />
                    <action type="CustomResponse" statusCode="403" statusReason="Forbidden" statusDescription="Forbidden" />
                </rule>
                <rule name="Imported Rule 10" stopProcessing="true">
                    <match url="^(media\/tmp\/)" ignoreCase="false" />
                    <action type="CustomResponse" statusCode="403" statusReason="Forbidden" statusDescription="Forbidden" />
                </rule>
                <rule name="Imported Rule 11" stopProcessing="true">
                    <match url="^(composer\.lock|composer\.json|\.htaccess)$" ignoreCase="false" />
                    <action type="CustomResponse" url="error" statusCode="403" statusReason="Forbidden" statusDescription="Forbidden" />
                </rule>
                <rule name="Imported Rule 12" stopProcessing="true">
                    <match url="(^|/)\.(?!well-known\/)" ignoreCase="false" />
                    <action type="Rewrite" url="index.php" />
                </rule>
                <rule name="Imported Rule 13" stopProcessing="true">
                    <match url="^(system\/typemill\/author\/css\/)" ignoreCase="false" />
                    <action type="None" />
                </rule>
                <rule name="Imported Rule 14" stopProcessing="true">
                    <match url="^(system\/typemill\/author\/img\/)" ignoreCase="false" />
                    <action type="None" />
                </rule>
                <rule name="Imported Rule 15" stopProcessing="true">
                    <match url="^(system\/typemill\/author\/js\/)" ignoreCase="false" />
                    <action type="None" />
                </rule>
                <rule name="Imported Rule 16" stopProcessing="true">
                    <match url="^(system|content|data|settings|(media\/files\/))" ignoreCase="false" />
                    <action type="Rewrite" url="index.php" appendQueryString="true" />
                </rule>
            </rules>
        </rewrite>
    </system.webServer>
</configuration>

More Information

Typemill is built on the Slim Framework, which provides information about configuration for IIS.
If you encounter a 404 response on IIS, this discussion on Stack Overflow may offer some guidance.
Information about handling of ssl-certificates with curl on IIS.