Cant run azure site in my development computer - azure

I am trying to code a website for azure. First I'm trying to run a simple test... but I'm not being able to run the simplest test ever... a cloud service with 1 web role (asp.net mvc4 site) with only 1 action (homepage).
I'm using Visual studio 2012 (Ultimate) and I just installed Azure SDK (version 2.1). When I run the website, the emulator starts and everything seems fine. But when the page opens in my Firefox it says "The connection was reset" and the page doesn't load.
I'm not sure what I'm doing wrong... I'm trying like a "hello world" for azure... it should work pretty straight forward. I tried using other ports for the endpoint (8081, 9595, etc) but the result was the same. I also disabled windows firewall... just in case.
I would really appreciate any help... I've been stuck with this for several hours and I really don't know what else to try.

Not sure what's going on, as a simple F5 on a brand new MVC4 project should "just work." Having said that:
Make sure you're running VS2012 as administrator, otherwise it won't launch the emulator.
Make sure your Azure project is the startup project.

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Lightswitch IIS 7.5 Deployment - GetAuthenticationInfo

I am having an absolute nightmare with the "Load operation failed for query 'GetAuthenticationInfo'. [HttpWebRequest_WebException_RemoteServer]" error when deploying my applications to a new server.
The apps I have are working and have been running for a while on another server. I have now got to move them to a new one, and I cannot get anything to work!
I have been through all of the posts on this error and have tried almost everything to get this deployment working.
Old Server: Win 2008 R2
New Server: Win 2008 R2
At first I thought it had something to do with Devexpress Xtra reports but I have disproved that by creating a bare bones app with one screen and one table and no extentions. And it still fails. I have also tried this with every combination of authentication. I have also deployed this test app to the old server and it all works fine, so I am sure there must be something wrong with my IIS settings. Visual studio is publishing the app with no errors. I only get it on runtime. I have tried to use fiddler to get a clue as to what is going on but I cant find anything useful.
I have also tried:
• removing and adding the web server role on the new server to try and reset configurations.
• Deploying several known working LS applications
• Every combination of Authentication on the IIS server for the app, website and server level
• Tried syncing the IIS configuration with the old server using MSdeploy.exe cmd line
• Repairing the .NET Framework 4 Client prile & extended
• restarting the server
• Installing updates
• re installing web deploy
• Made sure the application pool was .net v4
• made sure the application pool was integrated
• changed the authentication on app pool user to a domain account with known admin rights to the server (and have now put back to apppool identity)
• Creating a new website and deploying the app into there
• restarting web services
• Installing Lightswitch 2012 Server pre-requisites
None of these have worked at all.
The only way I can get my deployed application to load into a screen is to buid as a web type and change the url from
http://server/otm
to
http://server/otm/default.htm?IsLaunchedByVS=True&AuthenticationType=None
Something which I think it could be related to is a faulty installation of "Lightswitch Server Configuration" which installed using the Web Platform Installer 4.5
This however is not showing in the Add/Remove programs list, so I cannot uninstall it to see if it is messing things up. I cant seem to uninstall it from the WPI and i also cant find a direct download link from Microsoft.
I am completley out of ideas and in big trouble as these are production applications and the old serve will be shut down within the next two weeks. Any help would be appreciated!
.net framework 4.5 try running the app on .net framework 4 I had the issue and spent 40 hours on it .net 4 framework works

Debugging Azure: window popup says The web browser can not be started

I have a web application asp.net to deploy to Windows Azure. This application contains one web role. I try to run it on local first. But when debugging, I catch this error from VS2010: "Window Azure Tools for Microsoft Visual Studio
The Web Browser can not be started. To resolve this problem, you must restart Windows."
I have restarted windows several times, but there was no luck.![enter image description here][1]
I've search so hard to find the solution for this problem but there's nothing seems work for me. I'm a newbie in Windows Azure, it's really a big trouble with me. Please help me! Thanks a lot. Best Regards.
There could be two problems:
Problem with your IIS settings: It is possible that there is a problem with your IIS in your machine which could not be restarted when VS2010, wants to run it.
To verify it what you can do it launch your Web Role using "View in Browser" setting and see if your Web Role can run in IIS, you will see the web role started in a URL as http:\localhost:XXXXX and that would be the first step to resolved.
Problem will your Windows Azure SDK which could not launch the WebBrowser to run in IIS
If you don't have problem in this step #1, then it is possible that Windows Azure SDK has some problem trying to start your IIS from external process and this could be caused by corrupted SDK installation or any other reason.
If that is the case try:
remove all Windows Azure SDK components from your machine.
Restart the machine, Install Azure SDK from here for VS2010
After SDK install, restart the VS2010 in admin mode and try created a hello world webrole and see what happens.

Debugger can't connect when starting local azure project

Ok, first of; here's what I did:
Install AZURE tools
Reboot
Start Visual Studio - new Azure project
Add web role (asp.net MVC 4 beta web role)
Hit F5 (debug)
It starts up the storage emulator and the compute emulator and starts to load in runtimes, and then I get a popup saying that the debugger couldn't connect.
Then after some googeling I'm suggested to try to run the application without running the debugger to see if I can acces the application. When I do I get this:
So I figure that IIS does not have permissions to access some file/directory. So I go to IIS and look up the application pool running the app, and it tells me that the identity in use is NetworkService, then I go give NetworkService full permissions to the entirety of the folder IIS has set for the application (which also happens to be the path to the project dir). Still I get the same error. Now I'm more or less out of ideas, but I try one last thing, which is to also give IUSR full permissions to the same dir, but this did not help either.
How can I go about resolving this problem? I haven't tried actually launching my project to Azure yet, cause if I can't even get it to work in development I don't see much point. Any and all help would be appreciated.
I ran into the same error today after uninstalling .NET 4.5/Visual Studio 11 Dev Preview, then installing ASP.NET MVC 4 Beta (this is before Feb 29th when the updated VS 2011 Preview drops).
Since I uninstalled .net 4.5, you just need to do an "aspnet_regiis -i" to ensure the .net framework (4.0) is set up with IIS 7.x this worked for me.
Edit: This will work if you uninstall/then manually install Visual Studio 2012 RTM as well.
I had a similar error yesterday. For me the problem was that the output of the build was empty in the target folder.
I tried to answer a similar question https://stackoverflow.com/a/9411422/182371:
Check %UserProfile%\AppData\Local\dftmp\IISConfiguratorLogs\IISConfigurator.log
file for the error messages. Mode details at
https://stackoverflow.com/a/8432621/182371
Make sure that the build output of your project is not empty. You can do this by going to IIS, find the site with the name similar to
'deployment16(6).WindowsAzureProject2.WebApplication3_IN_0', right
click --> Explore.... Make sure that this folder is not empty and
contains all the files required to start a web project successfully.
As for the Access Denied error:
it could be just an IIS default setting to disable browsing. To resolve that, just navigate to that web site in IIS, find Directory Browsing icon, and press Enable. You will at least see the files inside that directory.
Also try not only 127.0.0.1:81, buta specific document inside that folder, like 127.0.0.1:81/Default.aspx
Take into account the fact that there's sometimes some mess with the ports. You see that in the error message it's port 82, but in your browser it's port 81. So make sure you're using the right port. Or, even better, in your service definition try to use some non-standard port for this to avoid remapping.
I've met the same issue. In the end, I had to reinstall IIS 7.
I got this exact same error and tried a re-install of IIS and the Azure SDK - nothing worked.
Eventually tracked it down to the "IIS URL Rewrite Module 2". I went to the Control Panel and chose Repair and it resolved it. If you have a section in your web.config then this might be the cause.
Follow step 11 from http://www.microsoft.com/en-us/download/details.aspx?id=35448. Worked for me on Windows 8 with Oct 2012 SDk when upgraded from 2011.

Debugging Azure: Error attaching the debugger to the IIS worker process

I have a web application asp.net to deploy to Windows Azure. I try to run it on local first. But when debugging, I catch this error from VS2010:
"There was an error attaching the debugger to the IIS worker process
for URL 'http://127.255.0.0:82/' for role instance
'deployment16(6).WindowsAzureProject2.WebApplication3_IN_0'.
Unable to start debugging on the web server ......."
I've search so hard to find the solution for this problem but there's nothing seems work for me. I'm a newbie in Windows Azure, it's really a big trouble with me.
I had similar problem with Windows 8, debuging a cloud application with Visual Studio 2012 RTM and Azure SDK 1.71, when trying to launch the application into the compute emulator. It was a very simple app, but I used Azure diagnostics. At the end these are two things I have changed that have work for me, both turning on Windows 8 features (so go to Win8 and open 'Turn Windows Features On/Off'.
Activate the checkboxes for:
Internet Information Services Hostable Web Core
Internet Information Services > World Wide Web Services > Application Development Features > ASP.NET 4.5
Internet Information Services > World Wide Web Services > Health and Diagnostics > Tracing
Internet Information Services > Web Management Tools > IIS Management Scripts and Tools
That worked for me, it makes sense, as I'm using Visual Studio 2012 and trying to get some trace information using diagnostics in Azure.
I hope this will work for you or give some tip about the problem. In the case of being useful information, remember to vote as response or as value tip.
Thanks,
Mike
This usually happens when there's a problem with the project to be deployed to the emulator (WindowsAzureProject2 in your case).
Try the following:
Check %UserProfile%\AppData\Local\dftmp\IISConfiguratorLogs\IISConfigurator.log file for the error messages. See more details in this answer.
Make sure your project can be started without the emulator. It's a web project, so just try to start it as a regular web project. Or publish it to the separate folder and try to create a website in IIS of it.
Check your *.csdef and *.cscfg files to make sure all the configuration is correct.
Make sure that the build output of your project is not empty. You can do this by going to IIS, find the site with the name similar to deployment16(6).WindowsAzureProject2.WebApplication3_IN_0, right click --> Explore.... Make sure that this folder is not empty and contains all the files required to start a web project successfully.
BTW, there's a similar question: Debugger can't connect when starting local azure project
Follow step 11 from http://www.microsoft.com/en-us/download/details.aspx?id=35448. Worked for me on Windows 8 with Oct 2012 SDk
I just have today the same problem trying to Debug locally with Azure Storage Emulator in Windows 7. So in the Azure project properties, in Web tab, I checked the radio button 'Use IIS Express' and it debugged without problem. I hope this helps someone.
I encountered this exact same problem when I upgraded an existing Azure solution to the Azure SDK 2.1. After some hunting around I uncovered that the upgrade had automatically set the "Local Development Server" setting to "Use IIS Web Server".
Changing the "Local Development Server" setting to "Use IIS Express" fixed the problem immediately.
To access this setting right-click the Azure cloud project file in your solution, select the "Properties" option, tab down to "Web" and you'll see the following setup.
Also, make sure you run Visual Studio as administrator
Please check the version of emulator you have installed. If your code is created in older sdk and you have a new emulator installed it will give you this error.
Check the version of Azure APIs in your project, go to Project > references and right click on Azure dlls to check the version, same sdk version must be installed on the system, higher are optional as azure 2.x are not backward compatible.

Azure - error on starting with multiple web role projects

If I have more than one webroles(projects, not instances) in my application, I get this error: (I only get it if I attach a web role. It works fine wit as many worker roles projects as I want)
Microsoft Visual Studio
Windows Azure Tools for Microsoft Visual Studio
There was an error attaching the debugger to the IIS worker process for URL 'http://127.0.0.1:5100/' for role instance 'deployment(21).CloudPOC.WebRoleToHostDataService.0'. Unable to start debugging on the web server. The web server is not configured correctly. See help for common configuration errors. Running the web page outside of the debugger may provide further information.
Click Help for more information.
OK
What is wrong here? I can't understand it and I need a webservice project!
Make sure you are starting the Azure project rather than the Web Project itself. You might have set the Web Role as the startup project, and if you do that you'll find that IIS runs the Web App rather than the Azure Dev Fabric, meaning any Dev Fabric specific stuff (like config settings per role) aren't available causing problems.
What you're meant to do is let the Azure Dev Fabric (Compute Simulator) fire up all your roles for you, and it'll also work out if it needs to open a web browser etc.
So right click on the Azure Cloud project, set that as the Startup Project, and try again.
Hope that helps,
Andy
EDIT thought of something else!
Make sure your web.config is compiling to allow debug="true". If you have added a new WebSite to your solution, it won't be so by default:
<system.web>
<compilation debug="true" targetFramework="4.0" />
I had similar issue which got resolved with following steps.
Make sure you have correct version of .net framework 4.0 is intalled. (.Net Framework 4.0.30319 is the latest version)
Uninstall if there isany other .Net 4.0 framework in present on your system by going to Add And Remove programs.
Go to %windir%\Microsoft.NET\Framework64 physical location and remove unwanted .Net framework 4.0 folder
I've also had this problem and it happened when I upgraded my app to 4.0... I ran without debugging and got the following error:
There is a duplicate 'system.web.extensions/scripting/scriptResourceHandler' section defined
and after researching that error, I found this:
http://forums.asp.net/t/1571308.aspx/1
which says there's currently a bug w/ vs2010 and 4.0... I took the answers recommendation and commented out the extensions section and it worked for me... Another possible solution.

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