I want the following solution for my Umbraco site:
- Visual Studio 2013 solution for development.
- Windows Azure SQL as the Umbraco DB
- Windows Azure Website for publishing using Dropbox
To solve the last step I create an empty site and connects it to the Azure SQL DB. Then I setup the Dropbox publishing as described in the Azure portal. Everthing seems ok, and it is synching ok with my project files.
However, when I go to my site on Azure, it doesn't show my Umbraco site, it shows the default empty Azure site.
Not sure about the Dropbox deploy, but I use git deploys, and it should be pretty much the same I guess. So your deployment status is green? Where (root/subfolder) did the files deploy to? You can see that either in Visual Studio Online or FTP.
The files was not transferred to Azure, when I looked into the folders via FTP all folders but one are empty. The /site/wwwroot/ folder only contained one file; hostingstart.html.
The reason was Azure didn't fetch the files in the correct (according to documentation) path /Dropbox/Apps/Azure/. In fact, it created a new folder Azure (1), which was empty.
So this part of the problem is solved. Instead, now I get the following error message from Azure:
Get(2) '1/files/sandbox/evalumb/umbraco_client/Ui/jquery.js' failed with Response status code does not indicate success: 401 (None).
Synchronized 1373 of 1374 change(s) from Dropbox with 1 failure(s).
1 downloaded files, 0 successful retries.
Response status code does not indicate success: 401 (None).
But this problem is obviously on Azure side, as well. So far, I cannot recommend the Dropbox deployment feature.
Deploying to Azure
I want the following solution for my Umbraco site:
- Visual Studio 2013 solution for development.
- Windows Azure SQL as the Umbraco DB
- Windows Azure Website for publishing using Dropbox
To solve the last step I create an empty site and connects it to the Azure SQL DB. Then I setup the Dropbox publishing as described in the Azure portal. Everthing seems ok, and it is synching ok with my project files.
However, when I go to my site on Azure, it doesn't show my Umbraco site, it shows the default empty Azure site.
Anyone got a clue?
Thanks.
Not sure about the Dropbox deploy, but I use git deploys, and it should be pretty much the same I guess. So your deployment status is green? Where (root/subfolder) did the files deploy to? You can see that either in Visual Studio Online or FTP.
Jonas, thanks for your response.
The files was not transferred to Azure, when I looked into the folders via FTP all folders but one are empty. The /site/wwwroot/ folder only contained one file; hostingstart.html.
The reason was Azure didn't fetch the files in the correct (according to documentation) path /Dropbox/Apps/Azure/. In fact, it created a new folder Azure (1), which was empty.
So this part of the problem is solved. Instead, now I get the following error message from Azure:
No, I don't get the Dropbox deploy to work, if I get any response from the Azure team I will let you now.
Azure team has forwarded this to Dropbox team.
I am intrigued if you ever managed to get anywhere with this?
Regards,
Ben
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