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Azure asp.net mvc 3 publishing/deployment issue


Hi I have a MVC 3 web project which has been deployed to Azure successfully previously. Since i had some problems with github, and the Azure cloud project just won't publish, we have tried to delete/create new projects; updated varies settings, endpoints; include all of the dlls; tried to look for diagnostics. even we tried to created a blank new projects and deployed it so far nothing works

3:37:12 PM - Preparing deployment for Subscription with Subscription ID: 519e1c......
3:37:13 PM - Connecting...
3:37:14 PM - Verifying storage account 'blahblah'...
3:37:15 PM - Uploading Package...
3:37:45 PM - Creating...
3:39:53 PM - Created Deployment ID: 244f269afefe40fb99........
3:39:53 PM - Starting...
3:40:28 PM - Initializing...

3:40:28 PM - Instance 0 of role Web is in an unknown state
3:45:34 PM - Instance 0 of role Web is starting the virtual machine
3:46:42 PM - Instance 0 of role Web is in an unknown state

then busy, cycling.....


Solution

  • If you want to see what is going on, just activate Remote Desktop on the instance.

    I found that between recycling of the instance there is enough time to run the web site and get the yellow screen of death telling you which dll you are missing.