Greetings, everyone! New to the forum, but we've been using Umbraco as our CMS solution for a year now. Love everything about it, but as more and more things are moving to the "cloud," I was wondering if anyone had had any success in moving an Umbraco site to the Azure platform? I'm assuming it'd be a combination of SQL Azure for the database and Windows Azure for the front-end, but I haven't been able to find much out there on whether or not it's possible. Anyone done it? If not Azure, has anyone had success on other platforms?
Thanks, Dirk! Wow, so it's literally as easy as just adding all of your Umbraco website files to a Visual Studio Azure project and deploying? Awesome. Do you know of anyone that's already done this?
I've been trying to run Umbraco on Azure, but so far without success. Some of the provided DLL's are in 32bit and Azure is native 64. Please correct me if I'm wrong, but I don't think it is going to work as long as 32bit dll's are used.
Best regards,
Arthur
P.S. After putting all files in an Azure project, fixing the basics and stuff, I get the following error when I run the project:
Could not load file or assembly 'System.Data' or one of its dependencies. An attempt was made to load a program with an incorrect format.
Description: An unhandled exception occurred during the execution of the current web request. Please review the stack trace for more information about the error and where it originated in the code.
Exception Details: System.BadImageFormatException: Could not load file or assembly 'System.Data' or one of its dependencies. An attempt was made to load a program with an incorrect format.
I am working on the same concept; getting umrbaco into a windows azure solution. It should be possible. The problem Arthurh describes could be fixed by referencing the correct 64 and 32 bit dll's (you need both), as I did found some stuff on that specific problem.
Hopefully I have a virtualmachine up and running soon :)
Next step completed! The solution is up and running!
I now have a virtual machine with windows server 2008, SQL server 2008 express, visual studio 2008, windows azure SDK 1.1 and a solution with a cloud service and a webrole. The webrole is umbraco. It is working!!!!
Next step is deployment, I'll keep sending updates
Okay, how's that going? You've not replied with a single update since February 16, 2010. Please send us (or me) an update on your success or failure of the solution you've created.
Umbraco web installer will not work against a SQL Azure database at the time of this writing so if you want to use Umbraco on a standard Windows server but have the database on SQL Azure...
... do the following!
Be sure all tables have a clustered index (umbracoUserLogins seemed to be the only one that does not)
Using SQL Management Studio, export a full SQL script for the database (be sure to include data in the scripting)
Have a problem that after i move to SQL Azure, the problem happens
Server Error in '/' Application.
Invalid object name 'umbracoDomains'.
Description: An unhandled exception occurred during the execution of the current web request. Please review the stack trace for more information about the error and where it originated in the code.
Exception Details: System.Data.SqlClient.SqlException: Invalid object name 'umbracoDomains'.
Umbraco in Windows/SQL Azure?
Greetings, everyone! New to the forum, but we've been using Umbraco as our CMS solution for a year now. Love everything about it, but as more and more things are moving to the "cloud," I was wondering if anyone had had any success in moving an Umbraco site to the Azure platform? I'm assuming it'd be a combination of SQL Azure for the database and Windows Azure for the front-end, but I haven't been able to find much out there on whether or not it's possible. Anyone done it? If not Azure, has anyone had success on other platforms?
Thanks,
Michael
Hi Michael,
May want to check this blog post.
Cheers,
/Dirk
Thanks, Dirk! Wow, so it's literally as easy as just adding all of your Umbraco website files to a Visual Studio Azure project and deploying? Awesome. Do you know of anyone that's already done this?
Thanks,
Michael
Dirk, Michael,
I've been trying to run Umbraco on Azure, but so far without success. Some of the provided DLL's are in 32bit and Azure is native 64. Please correct me if I'm wrong, but I don't think it is going to work as long as 32bit dll's are used.
Best regards,
Arthur
P.S. After putting all files in an Azure project, fixing the basics and stuff, I get the following error when I run the project:
Could not load file or assembly 'System.Data' or one of its dependencies. An attempt was made to load a program with an incorrect format.
Description: An unhandled exception occurred during the execution of the current web request. Please review the stack trace for more information about the error and where it originated in the code.
Exception Details: System.BadImageFormatException: Could not load file or assembly 'System.Data' or one of its dependencies. An attempt was made to load a program with an incorrect format.
Gents, any luck?
I am working on the same concept; getting umrbaco into a windows azure solution. It should be possible. The problem Arthurh describes could be fixed by referencing the correct 64 and 32 bit dll's (you need both), as I did found some stuff on that specific problem.
Hopefully I have a virtualmachine up and running soon :)
Next step completed! The solution is up and running!
I now have a virtual machine with windows server 2008, SQL server 2008 express, visual studio 2008, windows azure SDK 1.1 and a solution with a cloud service and a webrole. The webrole is umbraco. It is working!!!!
Next step is deployment, I'll keep sending updates
@Marco
Okay, how's that going? You've not replied with a single update since February 16, 2010. Please send us (or me) an update on your success or failure of the solution you've created.
Regards,
Kevin Keeney
Umbraco web installer will not work against a SQL Azure database at the time of this writing so if you want to use Umbraco on a standard Windows server but have the database on SQL Azure...
... do the following!
(umbracoUserLogins seemed to be the only one that does not)
(be sure to include data in the scripting)
Works like a charm! (BTW.. upgrade wizard might run after install.. this is okay)
SQL Azure does not support the ALTER database command. The database must be new.
Have a problem that after i move to SQL Azure, the problem happens
Server Error in '/' Application.
Invalid object name 'umbracoDomains'.
Description: An unhandled exception occurred during the execution of the current web request. Please review the stack trace for more information about the error and where it originated in the code.
Exception Details: System.Data.SqlClient.SqlException: Invalid object name 'umbracoDomains'.
many solution refers to this article http://www.carbonsoft.co.uk/articles/2012/06/copying-an-umbraco-website.aspx
however the problem is in azure, it doesnt have sp_MSforeachtable to execute
Correct Has anyone come up with a solution for the alter db? I assume we can alter the schema one by one.
is working on a reply...