Is there a file "view" available in Azure?
When I log in to Azure to look at a website I've deployed there is no obvious see exactly what files Azure is hosting.
I can see there's the Visual Studio Online option which allows you to live edit your server code but that is more than I need. I just want to be able to check that certain files are deployed and others are not.
If you're just trying to look around, and see the various directories and files in your deployment, you can enter the site's "Kudu" dashboard, using the url format http://<yoursitename>.scm.azurewebsites.net
This will give you a web-based dashboard, including a debug console (web-based) where you can explore your various directories (and the directories will show up visually as well).
More info can be found in this post from the Azure Websites team.
In Visual Studio, in the window "Server Explorer" you click and connect on "Azure".
=> App Service
=> Your site name
=> Files
Here you see all your files and you can edit them directly in Visual Studio.
##### UPDATE 19/08/2019 #####
For some time now, it hasn't worked anymore.... :(
Here is another way to do it: By FTP !
From the Azure portal, in the "App Service" section of your website, go to "Deployment Center" > FTP > Dashboard
There is the FTPS Endpoint => ftp://.....ftp.azurewebsites.windows.net/site/wwwroot
And username, password information.
Install FileZilla Client! (https://filezilla-project.org/)
Enter Host with "FTPS Endpoint" the "username" and "password" and then login quickly!
You can use App Service Editor (previously known as Visual Studio Online). It can be found under your webapp -> Development Tools section in the Azure Portal.
I know this is old, but I just found it, and got some useful tips from it. If you are using an App Service, there is now a browser option to do this as well:
https://YourAppService.scm.azurewebsites.net/dev/wwwroot/
You can get there from the Azure portal, then go to your App service, then scroll down to Development Tools, and click on "App Service Editor".
In VS2017/2019, there's Cloud Explorer to view files in Azure, but each time open folder to view files will invoke connection to cloud, so you have to wait, that's a bit slow.
To open Cloud Explore, Right click on project > Publish > Manage in Cloud Explore, or Top Menu > View > Cloud Explorer.
Yes, you have many options to see that
By clicking Console option (run "dir" command, will list down all files)
By hitting App Service Editor(Preview) option,
Adding to the accepted answer,
you can open an ssh session by going to http://<yoursitename>.scm.azurewebsites.net/webssh/host.
For a long time, I've looked for a linux-style terminal to view my deployed files and environment variables. With this you can view the files, check and set environment variables, make db migrations directly, and a lot more. Hope this is useful.
That could be relevant: AppService->Console
You can use Visual Studio Code and the Azure extension
Since you are using Azure Websites, Azure wants to "manage" it for you, and as a result, you cannot connect to the VM itself. If you were using a Cloud Service, you can obtain the RDP information from the Azure Console and just remote into the machine.
For your situation, you can use FTP as an option. Here is blog that describes one approach:
http://blogs.msdn.com/b/avkashchauhan/archive/2012/06/19/windows-azure-website-uploading-downloading-files-over-ftp-and-collecting-diagnostics-logs.aspx
Here is another option using WebMatrix:
http://www.microsoft.com/web/post/how-to-edit-a-site-hosted-on-windows-azure-with-webmatrix
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I am unsure if this is happening by design, or it's supposed to work this way. Through Visual studio Publish option, I published my ASP.NET Core website on Azure App Service. Now, when I access the fileManager on https://mywebsite.scm.azurewebsites.net/fileManager, I am missing majority of the files. I can only browse some log files, several zipped packages.
The website itself works fine when I am trying to access it on the link, however I am unable to browse all the files for it. I was wondering if this is an intended design, or I have done something wrong.
Kind Regards.
HTML5 component, that allows web pages to store named key value pairs locally. It just setting to store our web app.
To solve the files not able to view via kudu
Open Browser -> go to Developer tools or hit F12 -> In the console run the following cmd
window.localStorage['maxViewItems'] = 1000
Still you are facing issue please check and compare with Azure App Service Editor and Kudu files. I had checked both Kudu and App Service Editor shows the same files which contain the web app.
Refer Kudu error with maxViewItems in localstorage
I have activated an app service and a mysql database on microsoft azure.
What I would like to do now is activate the phpmyadmin extension in order to use it for database management.
The problem is that the Extensions item is always disabled from the Azure app service menu.
Following online directions I successfully created a new mysql connection string using this format:
Database=DBNAME;Data Source=MYSQLHOST;User Id=USERID;Password=PWD;
Despite this, the Extensions item is still disabled.
I have also restarted the app but nothing has changed.
Following the path advanced tools > go for the kudu I get this:
https://ibb.co/txKDCPY
If the Extensions on the App Service menu is greyed out, you could go to the Kudu site to add the extension you want.
On the App Service menu, choose Advanced Tools, click Go. You will see your app's Kudu site, on the top of the bar , you could find the Site extensions. Then choose Gallery and search the extensions you want like phpmyadmin. Then you could clike the + button to install the extension.
Update: msdn answer
From your description, it might be that you are using a linux web app. As such, the phpmyadmin is installed as part of the docker image.
To load phpmyadmin you should visit /phpmyadmin.
The credentials are available under the application settings on the web app itself.
More details : https://blogs.msdn.microsoft.com/appserviceteam/2017/06/07/mysql-in-app-feature-for-web-apps-on-linux/
I Used Azure Website Migration Assistance to migrate my web service that was running on my Local VM's IIS. My Migration process was successful and also I was able to use this web service. But I can't find where to find the migrated source code in azure portal. All I can see is some 20Mb of data in on the dashboard graph of azure portal. If I need to changed some of my code where to do this?
What is on the Azure Web App should now match what was on your IIS server. Now, to update the web app, you can use the deployment techniques here: https://azure.microsoft.com/en-us/documentation/articles/web-sites-deploy/
The simplest method to deploy to check what content is on your web app would be to use the SCM site. This is available at: https://your-site-name.scm.azurewebsites.net. Go to Debug Console > CMD and then the site > wwwroot folder to see your web app content. You can also upload to the site via drag and drop.
Alternatively, you can download the publishing settings for your web app via the portal and then re-use the migration tool, select the site, and then upload the publishing settings. However I would suggest using the deployment techniques above first. (Disclaimer: I wrote the migration tool.)
There are multiple ways to push changes to your Azure Website/Web App. They are listed here: https://azure.microsoft.com/en-us/documentation/articles/web-sites-deploy/
One simple way is to use an FTP client like FileZilla. In the classic portal, you will find the FTP address (hostname) and the credentials in the dashboard tab. In the new portal, select your Web App and the FTP address will be displayed in the Essentials section at the top of the page. Click on Settings and Deployment credentials to set your FTP user password.
Another simple alternative is to use Dropbox. Take a look at this video for how to set instructions: https://channel9.msdn.com/Series/Windows-Azure-Web-Sites-Tutorials/Dropbox-Deployment-to-Windows-Azure-Web-Sites
I enabled the Web Deploy feature for my Web Role and deployed it.
But how can I get hold of the .publishsettings file so I can create a Publishing Profile for it?
This 2 year old article states that it should have been created automatically, but I haven't got that in my profile manager.
Any ideas?
If you are using Visual Studio 2012 or greater, the server explorer to the left will have several Azure items.
Specifically the Windows Azure Compute is what we are looking for, right click on that and say 'add deployment environment'. You will then be prompted with a dialog that allows you to sign in and download publish settings file:
You can get publishsettings file from the following link: https://windows.azure.com/download/publishprofile.aspx
Well, the problem was really behind the keyboard.
So the publishing profile is actually provisioned correctly and automatically to the Web project as the documentation states.
The problem and confusion was that I have a secondary web application in my Solution that I also publish to the same Web Role (referenced as an additional Site in the ServiceDefinition.csdef file).
That Web Project does not get the Publishing Profile, and when I try to create a profile manually, it doesn't work since that (secondary) IIs instance is not configured for Web Deployment.
Oh well, back to the tedious Cloud Service deployment it is...
I don't have the latest version of the code deployed in the company's Windows Azure account, and I need to provide a fix to it. I know this can be done with "Azure Web Sites", but I'm not sure it's possible with "Azure Cloud Services".
Can anyone help?
If you did git deployment of the cloud service, you could fetch from the remote the same way you could with Windows Azure Web Sites. You may have updated the cloud service by uploading the package to blob storage first, in which case you could get the package. But, the package is not source code.
From a process perspective, you should label your deployments with a tag that can be matched in source control. You never know when a "hotfix" needs to be added to a branch off of the current production code.
In Windows Azure Cloud Services, instances are uploaded in the form of .cspkg packages.
According to the documentation, the Get Package operation retrieves a cloud service package for a deployment and stores the package files in Windows Azure Blob storage.
You could then download and extract this package (it is in ZIP file format) to retrieve its content. See this answer for more details.
In the case of ASP.NET applications, that will be a mixture of text files and binary assemblies (.DLLs). In the case of Java, it will be .jar files. You could use the appropriate decompiler to retrieve an approximation of the original source code. But it probably wouldn't be safe to change this reverse-engineered source code and upload it back into production, at least not without extensive testing.
yes. you can download it with an ftp client.
Ggo to dashboard of your site on https://manage.windowsazure.com.
Get credentials (username , password, host) and connect with you preferred ftp client.
Well, Azure now had a new portal and things are bit different. I had to retrieve the code for one of my websites.
To download the code,
go to App Service. In Overview panel, download publisher profile.
Now go to Deployment credentials panel. Enter the username for FTP and choose a password.
To connect to ftp, you need the URL from publishing profile (example.PublishSettings).
Now fire up your FTP client (FileZilla in my case) and put the FTP address and put the username like sitename\ftpusername (example\ftp-exmaple-user for me) and put in the password you choose in Deployment credentials panel.
wwwroot contains your code!
I realize it's an old question, in case anyone else needs it... I use the Cloud Explorer in Visual Studio 2017. In the Cloud explorer, you can drill down Subscription -> Resource Group -> App Service -> Files. Then, at the bottom of the Cloud Explorer, click "Download Files as a Zip."