Connecting to an Azure website via FTP using Azure login credentials

Question

What login credentials do I use to connect to the FTP site that is listed on the dashboard of my Azure?

I tried using the same credentials I use to log into Azure, but this failed.

Answer 1

In the current Azure portal the deployment credentials can be set by going to App Services → select the relevant app service item → in the Deployment section → Deployment Center → FTP → Dashboard. You can either chose to use the preprovided App Credentials or assign User Credentials.

In the previous generation Azure portal the deployment credentials can be set up by going to WEB APPS → select relevant item → DASHBOARD → Reset your deployment credentials.

Make sure you're specifying siteName\userName as your login name. The site name portion is required!

The default directory for the web content is \site\wwwroot which can be set as the initial directory for many FTP clients.

Answer 2

If you want use the default value you need to download the publish profile in your dashboard for your site:

[UPDATE for the new Azure UI]

It will be an XML file. Open it and find your credentials. Sample:

  <publishProfile     profileName="nameofyoursite - FTP"     publishMethod="FTP"     publishUrl="ftp://waws-prod-blu-001.ftp.azurewebsites.windows.net/site/wwwroot"     ftpPassiveMode="True"     userName="nameofyoursite\$nameofyoursite"     userPWD="sOmeCrYPTicL00kIngStr1nG"     destinationAppUrl="http://nameofyoursite.azurewebsites.net"     SQLServerDBConnectionString=""     mySQLDBConnectionString=""     hostingProviderForumLink=""     controlPanelLink="http://windows.azure.com">     <databases/>   </publishProfile> 

Where your credentials:

publishUrl="ftp://waws-prod-blu-001.ftp.azurewebsites.windows.net/site/wwwroot"

userName="nameofyoursite$nameofyoursite"

userPWD="sOmeCrYPTicL00kIngStr1nG"

Source: Azure Web Sites FTP credentials

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Connection from command line on OS X:

Console client:

ftp ftp://nameofyoursite:sOmeCrYPTicL00kIngStr1nG@waws-prod-blu-001.ftp.azurewebsites.windows.net/ 

Mount from the console:

mkdir /Users/<YOUR_USER>/FTP_AZURE mount_ftp nameofyoursite:sOmeCrYPTicL00kIngStr1nG@waws-prod-blu-001.ftp.azurewebsites.windows.net/ /Users/<YOUR_USER>/FTP_AZURE cd /Users/<YOUR_USER>/FTP_AZURE 

Open for editing in Vim:

vim ftp://[email protected]//site/wwwroot/ 

Note the user name here: nameofyoursite, not nameofyoursite$nameofyoursite