node.js - 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 directory or page.

I did a git master push to azure and the deployment was successful. I also turned on the failed request tracing but nothing shows up but the above statement.

Any ideas on how to troubleshoot this?

Answer 1

I just tested that if you don't deploy your main node.js file as server.js you will get this error because the web.config is specifically looking for server.js as below:

  <handlers>
       <add name="iisnode" path="server.js" verb="*" modules="iisnode"/>
 </handlers>

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