Folder permissions in Azure web sites

Question

Just getting my head around the new Azure web sites feature and hitting my first obstacle. I\'m deploying a PHP site which writes cache data to the file system, but the app

Answer 1

It should be possible using webdeploy.

However I don't think there is a way do it without manually setting up the webdeploy package - as described in the post http://blogs.msdn.com/b/azureappgallery/archive/2013/04/03/set-file-folder-permissions-for-your-content-on-azure-website-using-web-deployable-package.aspx.