azure-web-sites

I am looking for a way to programmatically scale up/down an Azure app service instance. This question has been asked before (e.g. in the link below) several months back and the answer was not possible at the time, so I am just wondering if something has changed and/or some new feature is available now. Is possible to programmatically scale Azure instances? Please note that we would like to do this on "Azure app services", not the old style "Azure cloud services". The reason that we would like to do the scaling programmatically is so that we can control it using on our custom metrics. We did

Very often, when I hit Publish in VS13, I get the site to compile but when uploading I get the error saying that a file is busy. Updating file (MyAzureSite\PrecompiledApp.config). C:...\v12.0\Web\Microsoft.Web.Publishing.targets(4255,5): Error ERROR_FILE_IN_USE: Web deployment task failed. (The file 'PrecompiledApp.config' is in use. Learn more at: http://go.microsoft.com/fwlink/?LinkId=221672#ERROR_FILE_IN_USE .) When I follow the link provided, it's suggested that I should go for enabling the appOffline rule . "Sure!", I think to myself. But how ?! I've googled it, only to get a bunch of

We recently migrated an API application from Azure Cloud Services to Azure Websites, and some clients are still using our legacy protocol for authentication, which uses cookies (instead of the usual Authorization: Bearer HTTP header). We need to support this authentication protocol for a little longer as the clients will not be able to migrate right away. To support cookies in a cross-origin ajax request directed to the API, the client needs to set the withCredentials setting to true in the XMLHttpRequest, and the server needs to repond with the Access-Control-Allow-Credentials header as well

We are using free BizSpark subscription on Azure and hosting our application as Azure Web Site. We periodically struggle with unexpected site shutdowns what's very painful for our application since it has a lot of background process running. "Always on" setting can be a remedy for this problem, but unfortunately it's unavailable for us in the current subscription. As you may know IIS has two settings recycle based on: By default, each application is terminated every 1740 minutes (29 hours) - periodic restart timeout . Also application can be recycled if it's unused for 20 minutes - idle

I am trying to create an Azure WebJob to send a BrokeredMessage to an Azure ServiceBus Topic, the actual act of creating and sending the message is trivial however I have been unable to find a way to automate the creation of the Scheduled WebJob. The automated workflow should work as follows: Create a new Azure Website [Done] Create a new triggered Azure WebJob uploading a PS1 file [Done] Create a new Azure Scheduler Job Collection [Proven Concept] Create a new Azure Scheduler Job that triggers the WebJob The Azure Management Portal provides a nice UI for this functionality, which under the

Just this morning, the management portal for Azure WebSites no longer lets me scale individually. It looks as though all my websites have been grouped into a "Web Hosting Plan". And now when I create a new web site, I have to choose a plan. I've looked around and I can't find any information on "Web Hosting Plans" -- is this some preview function that got pushed out early? Does anyone know how to create a new plan and switch a website to it? The ability to move a site to a new or existing Web Hosting Plan has finally been added to the Azure Portal! Note: this is only on the "new" Azure Portal