Getting error after pushing to Windows Azure: You do not have permission to view this directory or page

Question

I have googled for the past 3 hours and found nothing on what to do with respect to the windows azure problem:

You do not have permission to view this

Answer 1

I hit this error too. I am using MVC and the reason for the error was that on my layout page I had a call to an action that isn't accessible to anonymous users:

@Html.Action("GetMenu", "Users")  

For information, I register a AuthorizeAttribute() global filter in Application_Start and my Login action is decorated with AllowAnonymous:

    [HttpPost]
    [AllowAnonymous]
    [ValidateAntiForgeryToken]
    public ActionResult Login(LoginModel model, string returnUrl)
    {

My website did work previously on IIS7, but Azure is less forgiving. I fixed the problem by adding a check like this:

@if (User.Identity.IsAuthenticated)
{
     @Html.Action("GetMenu", "Users")
}