Azure website and web API project

Question

User-1387062836 posted

I have created a web api project that I plan on using with my new Windows 8 application.  It works great locally!  The problem is when I have attempted to deploy it  everything seems to work but navigating to site bring up the welcome to azure nothing is here page.  I can see the files in visual studio for this website.  Does anyone have any tips?  Can I even host a web api project on a azure website?  I have also tried to use the web api itself by going to the site and hitting the calls like this "azurewebsite"/api/mycontroller/actionname  This returns a 404.  

Answer 1

User455156504 posted

Hi,

of course you can host ASP.NET Web API on Azure Web Sites. 404 is a common problem when you're not exactly sure how the resource (URL) looks like (f.e. if you have query parameters). Have you tried to send a request via Fiddler to your API? A simple GET request is best-suited for this purpose.

If that doesn't help it would be great if you could post your routing configuration and an example of an action in your API.

Answer 2

User-1387062836 posted

Thanks for the response.  I have been able to create a new website on Azure and deploy a ASP.NET Web API.  I have copied over and re implemented my logic.  My issue now is that when i call the service with hard coded return values it works great, if i try to hit the azure database  it returns an empty json result.  When I run the same code locally hitting the same azure database I get my expected result.  I am not really sure why this is happening it is a simple request.

Answer 3

User1492915735 posted

lastparrot

Test your connection string and see the app's log. There's default log.