orecht/MarkdownHttpHandler

Display makrdown .md files in IIS.

MarkdownHttpHandler

ISS Http handler to display makrdown .md files

Installation

Place ORecht.MarkdownHandler.dll in the \bin folder of your ISS site

Edit web.config with:

<configuration>
    <system.webServer>
        <handlers>
            <add name="MdHandler" path="*.markdown|.*mdown|*.mkdn|*.mkd|.*md" verb="*" type="System.Web.Handlers.MarkdownHandler" resourceType="Unspecified" requireAccess="Read" preCondition="integratedMode" />
        </handlers>
    </system.webServer>
</configuration>

Any .md file is now converted to html and rendered.

Multiple file extensiosn

You can add additional <add> lines to handle other markdown file extensions. For example the following will remder .md and .markdown files:

<configuration>
    <system.webServer>
        <handlers>
            <add name="MdHandler" path="*.md" verb="*" type="System.Web.Handlers.MarkdownHandler" resourceType="Unspecified" requireAccess="Read" preCondition="integratedMode" />
            <add name="MarkdownHandler" path="*.markdown" verb="*" type="System.Web.Handlers.MarkdownHandler" resourceType="Unspecified" requireAccess="Read" preCondition="integratedMode" />
        </handlers>
    </system.webServer>
</configuration>

Note: Contrary to IIS 6.0, IIS 7.0 does not support multiple extensiosn in the same handler with path="*.ma, *.markdown"

Any .md or .markdown file is now converted to html and rendered.

Implementation detail

Rendering is done client side using Strapdown.js

Credits

http://strapdownjs.com/