Azure: "You do not have permission to view this directory or page

Question

I have created a node.js application in Visual Studio 2015 using the Azure SDK 2.7 and the Node.js Tools.

I have successfully set up CI with BitBucket in my web app and I can see that changes to the repository do indeed trigger a build and deploy.

However, the page I reach (http://ftct.azurewebsites.net/) complains: You do not have permission to view this directory or page.

I have specified a default file (kinda) in my node.js by using: app.get('/', routes.index);

So trying to navigate directly to this file, http://ftct.azurewebsites.net/signin.html, yields a different error: The resource you are looking for has been removed, had its name changed, or is temporarily unavailable.

I configured the app to run on port 1337 in Visual Studio, but using this port doesn't overcome the problem. Trying to navigate to a ported address yields a timeout.

Any ideas?

Answer 1

I had the same issue,

you need web.config, package.json, server.js at the root

web.config:

<configuration>
    <system.webServer>
        <handlers>
            <!-- indicates that the app.js file is a node.js application to be handled by the iisnode module -->
            <add name="iisnode" path="server.js" verb="*" modules="iisnode" />
        </handlers>
        </system.webServer>
</configuration>

in package.json you need to have:

 ...
  "scripts": {
    "start": "node server"
  },
...

and in your server.js make sure that you set the server port number to

process.env.PORT || 1337;