New Azure VM says InvalidQueryParameterValue comp

Question

I created a new Azure VM, installed the LAMP stack, and when I visit the domain name in a browser, it serves the following error, which I am unable to find any information on through Google or Stack Overflow:

<?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8"?><Error><Code>InvalidQueryParameterValue</Code><Message>Value for one of the query parameters specified in the request URI is invalid.
RequestId:45ba52f4-0001-0086-13ed-e545cf000000
Time:2015-09-03T02:07:58.4816344Z</Message><QueryParameterName>comp</QueryParameterName><QueryParameterValue /><Reason /></Error>

When I use wget http://localhost while logged in through SSH, I get this error instead:

--2015-09-03 02:05:57--  http://localhost/
Resolving localhost (localhost)... 127.0.0.1
Connecting to localhost (localhost)|127.0.0.1|:80... connected.
HTTP request sent, awaiting response... 200 OK
Length: 65 [text/html]
index.html: Permission denied

Cannot write to ‘index.html’ (Permission denied).

The apache config for the default site is plain:

<VirtualHost *:80>
        # The ServerName directive sets the request scheme, hostname and port that
        # the server uses to identify itself. This is used when creating
        # redirection URLs. In the context of virtual hosts, the ServerName
        # specifies what hostname must appear in the request's Host: header to
        # match this virtual host. For the default virtual host (this file) this
        # value is not decisive as it is used as a last resort host regardless.
        # However, you must set it for any further virtual host explicitly.
        #ServerName www.example.com

        ServerAdmin webmaster@localhost
        DocumentRoot /var/www/html

        # Available loglevels: trace8, ..., trace1, debug, info, notice, warn,
        # error, crit, alert, emerg.
        # It is also possible to configure the loglevel for particular
        # modules, e.g.
        #LogLevel info ssl:warn

        ErrorLog ${APACHE_LOG_DIR}/error.log
        CustomLog ${APACHE_LOG_DIR}/access.log combined

        # For most configuration files from conf-available/, which are
        # enabled or disabled at a global level, it is possible to
        # include a line for only one particular virtual host. For example the
        # following line enables the CGI configuration for this host only
        # after it has been globally disabled with "a2disconf".
        #Include conf-available/serve-cgi-bin.conf
</VirtualHost>

How do I get this VM to start serving using Apache?

Answer 1

This can occur on the 'Static Website hosting' feature if you point your CNAME to the wrong Azure server.

You must use the server DNS name that contains web in the name and not blob.