Tuesday, July 24, 2012

"403 : Access denied" in windows azure application

While creating an application to deploy into Windows Azure (Cloud Services), I encountered a weird issue that could not be solved by anyone (read a lot of blog).

The issue is "403 : Access denied" was getting shown when I hit the production url (in my case : questionaire.cloudapp.net). I could not find anyreason why it should throw an error as I have just followed the steps in windows.azure.com tutorials and scott's blog. Really there is nothing much to do to get an app to be deployed into cloud.

Finally I found the issue to be the OS type that was allocated to me in cloud services host vm. It was having Windows 2008 SP1 and when I changed it to Windows 2008 R2, it worked.
Hope others do not need to waste their time looking at it as firewall issue, ACL issue, code isssue etc :)

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