FTP connection to ASP.NET website on Windows Azure

Question

User-587630019 posted

How do I make an FTP connection to our asp.net website which has been deployed to Windows Azure?

Answer 1

User379720387 posted

I don't know what your development environment is, so I will give it for WebMatrix.

In Azure click on your site and then under Publish your app click on Download the publish profile.  This little file is what links your site as it exists on your development box to it place on Azure.

In WebMatrix click on REMOTE then on Settings.

Then New Profile if you cannot find it it is all the way on the top left.

Save, then Validate connection.

Publish.

I think Microsoft calls it web deploy. It is pretty much as easy as publishing can be made to work.  I have forgotten about FTP.

Answer 2

User-587630019 posted

We are using Visual Studio 2010.

Answer 3

User379720387 posted

Same thing with the publish settings.

http://blog.arvixe.com/how-to-use-web-deploy-to-deploy-your-website/ is just one of the links I found.

Answer 4

User-587630019 posted

My question was on how to use FTP connection to deploy to Wndows Azure.  This is the opposite of what I asked: "publish your site quickly and easily without having to login to the control panel or FTP"

Answer 5

User379720387 posted

Here you go:

http://social.msdn.microsoft.com/Forums/windowsazure/en-US/4ffc50e0-56ca-43c1-8c5c-a3171daf5c34/how-to-use-web-deploy-and-ftp-publishing-from-vs-2010-against-windows-azure-websites-without-using?forum=windowsazurewebsitespreview

Answer 6

User-691245060 posted

if you are working in Azure VM Roles, then you can enable FTP access as shown here - http://www.intstrings.com/ramivemula/articles/enable-ftp-access-on-windows-azure-vm/

if you are working on the WebRoles, then http://mayur.gondaliya.com/microsoft/creating-ftp-server-on-windows-azure-493.html

Thanks,