Deploying a NiceGUI app on Windows

[serra]

Last week, I spent two frustrating days on trying to deploy my NiceGUI app on Windows.
Hopefully this post will help others not to make the same mistakes I have made.

Right now, I have got a working deployment:

• Use NSSM to run the NiceGUI app as a Windows service
• Use Caddy as a reverse proxy

Long story short: it can be done, but I'd advice not to use IIS.
According to this discussion IIS can be used, but the suggested solution did not work in my case, and I am nit sure why it did not.

I will add to the discussion later to share the things I tried that did not work. For now, if you have questions or remarks, do let me know.

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(Please do not make this a "Why would you want to run on Windows in the first place?" type of discussion; I don't necessarily like to either, but if it is helpful to a customer or a friend I will do it.)

[evnchn]

Glad you found a solution, but note that since it is just prroxying to the underlying NiceGUI service I don't see the point of IIS?

[serra]

IIS comes shipped with the server installation and it has reverse proxy support if you enable and install some extensions. I thought it would be the easy way on Windows. I was wrong.

[evnchn]

Well still I'd rather recommend against trying to find a "better solution"

"If it ain't broke don't fix it", while doesn't apply to our repo where we want to keep the tech debt low and code clean, very much applies for anything which has to do with Windows 🤡