Accessing DevFabric from outside Localhost

Question

Is it possible to access a WebApplication hosted on DevFabric (WebRole) from outside the hosting machine?

If possible, how can i achieve this.

Thanks.

Answer 1

The problem is not a trivial as it might seem, the problem is that the Development Fabric is married with 127.0.0.1, so it only accepts request comming from localhost, however you can trick this by routing all incomming calls for a specific port to "127.0.0.1" the following article describes the problem and how to fix it:

http://theazureexperience.wordpress.com/2012/01/15/accessing-a-web-role-in-development-fabric-from-another-machine/

let me know if anyone has a similar issue and i'll be more than willing to help.

-Miguel