Azure website message “You do not have permission to view this directory or page.”. What to do?

Question

After I published an ASP.NET Core app to Azure from Visual Studio 2017 I am getting this message when I click on the app url:

It was working fine before. Is

Answer 1

Just to add to the solutions: in my case I updated the application but the application pool was set to "Always On" so something had "confused it". All I had to do was:

• go to the site settings in the Azure portal
• then select configuration under Settings
• then select the General Settings tab on the configuration page
• On the General settings tab switch "Always On" to Off
• and reconnect to your site as normal.
• When the site is back up and running switch "Always On" back to On.