I have been trying to get Umbraco working in a web role environment (web services) in Azure, but the site errors when you try and access it, saying that config/trees.config is not accessible.
These are the steps i carried out:
Create a new empty MVC4 project in Visual Studio 2013
Install Umbraco v7.1.8 from nuget
Run up and configure using a new azure SQL database.
Added in the umbraco folders to the solution.
Added an azure web services project to the solution.
Added the existing MVC umbraco project to the azure role profiles.
Published to Azure staging area.
The site starts up with the usual 'Looks like there is still work to do' screen in the full Azure emulator in visual studio with multiple role instances. However fails to run up when hosted in Azure.
I am currently assuming that the issue is that the site root does not have write access when hosted in Azure, so the IIS worker process cannot write to the trees.config file.
I found an article where you can add a 'startup.bat' file, with the following:
echo "starting startup task" >> log.txt
%windir%\system32\Icacls.exe .. \* /T /grant "Network Service":(F) > log.txt
But this stops the role instances for starting up at all in both the emulator and when hosting in azure.
Any suggestions would be gratefully appreciated
I would suggest using a VM instead of a web role for hosting Umbraco in Azure, particularly since Umbraco is needing local write access to persist.
Web roles expect your application to be stateless, meaning no writing or persisting anything to the actual file system. This guarantee allows Azure to make certain assumptions so that it can load balance and scale the application correctly (it basically saves a master copy and then re-deploys it fresh as it scales up or makes updates, etc. This works great for web apps that were created with this in mind, but if not, then a VMs allows you to scale UP without worrying about your app needing to work a certain way to properly scale OUT under a load balancer (which is what web roles are made to help you do).
So, basically I would suggest installing to a Virtual Machine. It's still in the cloud, and you get all the cloud benefits of on-demand scaling of the infrastructure. In addition, I would expect Virtual Machines to be a supported install of Umbraco, where a web role install would not. Hope that helps!
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I made a simple ASP.net MVC web application in Visual Studio 2013, and I want to deploy it so it can be accessed from the browser on other computers on my local network. I have tried right-clicking my project > Publish (not sure what settings to use, Web Deploy, Web deploy package, File system,
I published the website to my inetpub/wwwroot folder.
I managed to get IIS up an running, I've tried adding an application in the manager and editing the permissions to Everyone. I tried navigating to localhost/application_name but I was getting errors about not being configured to list the directory. I enabled directory browsing, but that just means it now shows a list of the files. How do I get it to actually run the app when I navigate to it in the browser?
Am I close?
Edit: currently trying this http://johan.driessen.se/posts/Accessing-an-IIS-Express-site-from-a-remote-computer (although this I think is a step or two ahead of where I am)
Also tried this: http://www.programmerfish.com/how-to-deploy-asp-net-web-application-on-the-network-in-windows-7/#.VGTLCvnF81L no luck so far
You can use IIS Express which comes with visual studio 2013. I've used this method to allow other members of the staff to access the website that is in my computer. Scott Hanselman has done a great post which I use every time when I want to expose a website hosted in local iis express to others in the same network.
http://www.hanselman.com/blog/WorkingWithSSLAtDevelopmentTimeIsEasierWithIISExpress.aspx
If you have any queries, let me know. Hope this helps
When I want to use IIS Express within Visual Studio for development, but allow local network users to see a version of my site, I tend to create a publish profile in VS that publishes to the local file system (e.g. C:\Publish\<yourwebsite>). Then from IIS Manager create a new website pointed to that same folder and it should be accessible to you via http://localhost and to network users via http://<your-pc-name> or http://<your-local-ip>.
You will need to add an exception to Windows Firewall to permit HTTP requests (i.e. port 80) through to your local machine, but if you have configured IIS correctly they should see the website.
It is possible to make IIS Express available to remote clients but that's not what it's designed for so really you're better off going down the IIS route since this will allow you to test the configuration as it would be on a live/production setting at the same time.
Check this, and old version of the same question. I'd bet you need to install IIS locally
Use Visual Studio web server in local network
You need to enable IIS on the host as IIS Express is not built with that in mind. Its for debugging purposes.
You've also not mentioned your binding configurations or your app pool settings.
Here is a comprehensive tutorial on how to publish your application using IIS IIS Video tutorial
You will need to ensure the binding that you specify is available across the network and that the connecting clients have permissions.
The issue was that ASP.net was not registered with IIS
Opened command prompt as administrator
Navigated to C:\Windows\Microsoft.NET\Framework64\v4.0.30319
Ran aspnet_regiis -iru
Now web app runs in IIS http://www.asp.net/web-forms/overview/deployment/configuring-server-environments-for-web-deployment/configuring-a-web-server-for-web-deploy-publishing-%28remote-agent%29
I created an asp.net mvc project in VS. I created an azure cloud service. Within the VS solution I added an azure project to enable me to publish to my cloud service. The cloud service has a web role and it’s published to a production environment. When I publish the project, I have my domain .cloudapp.net and I can then view my published project from a browser.
Job done. All good so far.
What I’m unclear on (and this is partly because my azure and asp.net mvc knowledge is limited) is where the project files actually reside (and the file/folder structure) and how to access them? I know they are on an IIS server somewhere but that’s about it.
With ‘traditional’ websites you have a webserver, a wwwroot folder and you stick your web pages etc into them and can see/access them through ftp etc.
Apart from wanting to know the answer to the above question I actually want to farm out the web ui (view) part to a web developer whilst I concentrate on the back end stuff. He doesn’t have visual studio so I’m unclear on how to best approach this?
I’ve noticed on the windows azure publish summary within my solution that you can enable remote desktop and enable web deploy which I suspect may be of help to me but as the solution is all working fine at the moment and I’m demoing it to a client tomorrow I’m a bit reluctant to make any last minute changes..as I’m sure we’ve all suffered the consequences of that before.
What I’m unclear on is where the project files actually reside
(and the file/folder structure) and how to access them?
As you have mentioned, these files reside on the server itself. If you connect to your server via Remote Desktop, you can see the files under D:\sitesroot folder (actual name of the folder can be found by launching IIS Manager on that server).
Having said that, it is not recommended to make changes to the files directly on the server. This is because if your server goes bad for any reason, Microsoft will provision a new server for you and it takes the code from the package file when you last deployed your application. This the changes you have made on that server will be lost.
Regarding your other question about having somebody focus on front-end development, I'm pretty sure you don't want him to working on production server directly. I'm assuming you have a centralized code repository somewhere where everybody checks in their code and then you build stuff and then deploy it.
I am developing a website in Mvc4 using visual studio 2012 and now I am facing a problem regarding web deployment or I can say that I'm not getting solution for this problem.
My problem is that I want to publish my website from my website view I want to give a button in home page of my website as I click on that button my database updates in IIS or azure server. How can I do this any idea about it ??
I am Currently Using Azure Storage and IIS server for local testing.
if you want to do deploy for "Azure WebSite" and not "Azure WebRole" you may use FTP transfer.
if you want to do deploy for WebRole, the first thing you have to open Remote Desktop on it and probably PowerShell will help you to deploy. You may find more details on that subject in Azure Enable Web Deploy via automated deployment and Powershell - Create Azure Deployment Package
Also please keep in mind that your infrastructure must be in separate environment. If you try to control publish/deploy from a same site (say you are on Site X and you are deploying for Site X) if anything goes wrong, you will lose all the control.
I am very new to Windows Azure - have been into asp.net for about 10 years now and have been deploying applications via Database backup and restore on production and copy of final code bits from source control to the root folder on production database.
I am doing my initial reading and finding it a bit difficult to absorb the overall process of deploying an ASP.Net MVC web Application to Azure.
I have managed to have the database and the website code on Azure and it is up and running, but I can't get to terms on the following points and want to understand them better to have a regular deployment on place as versions of my app keep going up.
Database doesn't work like backup a local database and then upload .bak file and restore to the production server.
Nor can I see my website files.
Update: 04-Aug-2013
Azure Websites have an FTP option. You can see your FTP host name in respective website Dashboard. The username and password for FTP are located in the publish settings file (note: you got to pick up the FTP username and password, NOT the publish username/password. They both are different.
When I am getting ready for version 2.0 of my product, how do I get the database from the Azure SQL, upgrade it to 2.0 and put it back?
I assume the publishing wizard from Visual Studio should be able to take care of code upgrade, but how do I edit my production web.config file on the fly?
How do I take my website offline and show users my custom "offline" page when I am in the middle of the upgrade? (Stopping the website shows up the Windows Azure site not available page).
For your database backup / upgrade questions
For migration of databases to SQL Azure (or pulling them down) the SQL Database Migration Wizard has proven to be a lifesaver for me, get it here:
http://sqlazuremw.codeplex.com/
This will pull and push both data and schema for your database.
For seeing your website files
You won't be able to if you are using Windows Azure Websites.
For editing web.config on fly
You can't. BUT -- you can edit connection strings and appsettings through the 'configure' tab of your website like so:
Turning your website offline during upgrade
While you cannot specifically use the app_offline route without another deployment. One thing you could do is change your default document. This is easily done right in the same 'configure' tab for the website in the portal as I mentioned above, see here:
Hope this helps.
My Mvc website never opens up locally. It tries to search the website, but is unable to and in the end a 404 is displayed.
Please help on this, if you can.
I have one webrole (Mvc website) and two worker roles (WCF services) communicating with worker roles.
It works fine on Azure servers though...
It sometimes throws an error while running that Role Instances are taking longer than expected and I have to restart my system to make it running again (i.e., to reach up to the 404 error again)...
Thanks in advance...
Perhaps your local SQL Server instance is not running or misconfigured. It uses SQL Server to support table storage and other local resources. Check out DSInit to configure your database. http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/gg433134.aspx
Also, did you launch Visual Studio as an Administrator? You'll need to right click on Visual Studio and select "Run as administrator" in the context menu. I had the same experience a while back and I had forgot to do that step. This is required to run an Azure solution locally.