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New Post: Unable to connect to Umbraco Azure instance

jpmcfeely — Wed, 08 May 2013 19:36:38 GMT

I have downloaded the Umbraco Accelerator from http://azureaccelerators.codeplex.com/ in the attempts to build a cloud based CMS system as a test.

I have setup the following:

Storage account
SQL Azure database
Hosted Service

In line with the documentation I have added the following values for AcceleratorConnectionString, DiagnosticsConnectionString and DatabaseConnectionString (some values have been changed for privacy purposes):

<Setting name="AcceleratorConnectionString" value="DefaultEndpointsProtocol=https;AccountName=mystorageaccountname;AccountKey=mystorageaccountkey" />

<Setting name="DiagnosticsConnectionString" value="DefaultEndpointsProtocol=https;AccountName=mystorageaccountname;AccountKey=mystorageaccountkey" />

<Setting name="DatabaseConnectionString" value="Server=tcp:severaddress.database.windows.net;Database=umbraco;User ID=userid@serveraddress;Password=pw;Trusted_Connection=False;Encrypt=True;" />

With these values ammended I have then ran the ServiceConfiguration.bat file and the all seems to have deployed successfully with the command prompt details as follows:

Rapid Provisioning of SQL Azure for Umbraco.

Settings loaded from service configuration file: '........\ServiceConfiguration.cscfg'
Setting Environment Variables
AcceleratorApplication : Umbraco,4.5
AcceleratorConnectionString : DefaultEndpointsProtocol=https;AccountName=storagename;AccountKey=storagekey
DefaultEndpointsProtocol : https
AccountName : storagename
AccountKey : storagekey
DiagnosticsConnectionString : DefaultEndpointsProtocol=https;AccountName=storagename;AccountKey=storagekey
DefaultEndpointsProtocol : https
AccountName : mycomplianceumbraco
AccountKey : storagekey
DatabaseConnectionString : Server=tcp:servername.database.windows.net;Database=
umbraco;User ID=user@servername;Password=pw;Trusted_Connection=Fa
lse;Encrypt=True;
Server : tcp:servername.database.windows.net
Database : umbraco
User ID : username@servername
Password : pw
Trusted_Connection : False
Encrypt : True
Diagnostics : ApplicationName=Accelerator;EnableLogging=true;DiagnosticsConsole
=false;RealtimeTracing=false;LogFilter=Verbose;LogTransferInterval=5;BufferQuota
InMB=512
DiagnosticsServiceBus : ServiceNamespace=???;ServicePath=???;IssuerName=???;Iss
uerSecret=???
LocalSitePath : C:\inetpub\wwwroot
AcceleratorMachineKey : <machineKey validationKey="88B316536D606BB0521A0096B2DD
82D0F60A734815030B1C6976C1683FE885567DE5C7CEF2D4060BBAD9601FE30C72023829464A1DCE
BF5814C8F4F425CE9493" decryptionKey="67AC62B815C9177E77B60E33639172A08A4FB2B057E
B44C5C03811E3AEE79A0E" validation="SHA1" decryption="AES" />
AcceleratorDrivePageBlobUri : azure-accelerator-drives/umbracodrive.vhd
AcceleratorContainerSyncUri : azure-accelerator
AcceleratorConfigBlobUri : azure-accelerator/accelerator.config
EnableDevStorage : false
allowInsecureRemoteEndpoints : true
Hostheader :
-- ENVIRONMENT SETTINGS --
SQL Server Con: tcp:servername.database.windows.net
SQL Server Admin: userid@servername
SQL Server: servername
SQL Database: umbraco
Admin User: userid
Admin Password: pw
Umbraco User: userid
Umbraco Password: pw
-- DATABASE: CREATING --
-- DATABASE: VERIFYING --
Database Verified: umbraco
Login Verified: userid
-- DATABASE: DEPLOYING SCHEMA --
-- DATABASE: SETTING SECURITY --
-- STORAGE: UPLOADING SERVICE CONFIGURATION --
Settings loaded from service configuration file: ..............\ServiceConfiguration.cscfg'
Uploading file to storage...
Source: ...........\ServiceConfiguration.cscfg'
Target: 'https://storagename.blob.core.windows.net/azure-accelerator/Se
rviceConfiguration.cscfg'
Upload completed!
-- STORAGE: UPLOADING SOLUTION ENGINE --
Settings loaded from service configuration file: .............\ServiceConfiguration.cscfg'
Uploading file to storage...
Source: .................\Service.cspkg'
Target: 'https://storagename.blob.core.windows.net/azure-accelerator/Service.cspkg'
Upload completed!
-- STORAGE: UPLOADING CLOUD DRIVE --
Settings loaded from service configuration file: ............\ServiceConfiguration.cscfg'
A blob already exists at storage location 'https://storagename.blob.core
.windows.net/azure-accelerator-drives/umbracodrive.vhd'.

In windows Azure it is giving me the URL to visit the application of http://storagename.cloudapp.net/ but upon visiting this URL I am not finding anything.

Also on the instructions for the accelerator it says that CMS admin can access via http://storagename.cloudapp.net/umbraco/default.aspx but this is not working either

Can you please tell me why I am unable to connect to the instance? I would have expected this to be working as there have been no errors generated. I would be very grateful for some advice or assistance

New Post: Admin Credentials Fail

ryanmar — Wed, 30 May 2012 00:16:39 GMT

Hi –

Correct. Win@zure is the password for the pre-packaged Umbraco install available in the downloads section. If you packaged a new installation or deployed a WebPI version then it will be the default or password entered when first installing locally.

Just fyi… This Accelerator and rapid deployment package in this project is to enable Azure deployments of legacy versions of Umbraco. Umbraco is now Azure-aware and retooled to work seamlessly in the Azure cloud environment. Unless you have a business requirement driving such, I’d recommend using the current bits. (The other Umbraco Accelerator, available here and on github, also provides multi-tenant functionality for the latest versions.)

If your requirement is to deploy older versions, or pre-packaged Umbraco sites, please loop me in and I will drill down on whatever issue(s) you’re hitting.

Best Regards,

Ryan Marshall

sevensoft™ | Ryan D. Marshall | ryan@sevensoft.com.

From: blwthompson [email removed]
Sent: Tuesday, May 22, 2012 9:25 PM
To: ryan@sevensoft.com
Subject: Admin Credentials Fail [azureaccelerators:356791]

From: blwthompson

Hi, I've just done the rapid deployment, however when i attempt to login with admin Win@zure it will not allow me to login, it states that the username and or password is incorrect. Can you please confirm that these are the default credentials?

New Post: Admin Credentials Fail

blwthompson — Wed, 23 May 2012 04:25:14 GMT

New Post: Load Balanced Publishing issues

MoobeH — Tue, 13 Mar 2012 09:51:08 GMT

Hello,

We have been able to successfully set up a load balanced Umbraco environment spanning two servers however we have been facing issues with content publishing.

The problem is that when some content managed field is edited and saved/published the changes do not appear on the site itself unless a restart of each server is carried out. This very much seems like it is some kind of issue with the cache and I am wondering if others have faced similar problems and if they resolved them, how?

Thanks

New Post: Redeploying Umbraco without loosing members?

dimitrijevic — Sat, 10 Dec 2011 10:21:13 GMT

I'm sorry if this has been solved already, but is there any way one could redeploy Umbraco to Azure without loosing members, i.e. having my Umbraco on Azure setup so members are saved to storage maybe or better yet have some script just copy them from Production to the Staging instance before doing the Swap VIP?

I understand one should not need to redeploy Umbraco often, however I'm about to try and combine mine with a service that could potentially need to be redesigned often, and to make matters worse I might even need to have more than one of those services deployed but have them share my member db.

If you have any other best practice advice how to set such a mechanism up on Azure I'd also be much obliged...TIA

New Post: Best Practices for setting up a development environment

bkail — Tue, 17 May 2011 17:52:14 GMT

I am interested in doing some development on Umbraco and I know I want it to run with the Azure Accelerator. It doesn't seem that setting up a local IIS instance of Umbraco running against a local SQL Db and developing my Umbraco extensions against that is necessarily the best way to go about development. Is there any guidance on how to best set up my development environment for Umbraco with the Azure Accelerator? Some things I am considering:

Local IIS site for Umbraco vs. web site code in Storage Emulator BLOB storage and running The Azure Accelerator in the Compute emulator
Running against a local SQL DB vs, running against a SQL Azure DB
How to set up my host file if running the Azure Accelerator in the Compute Emulator? It seems that the Umbraco site is only rendered when the host header is used (i.e. 127.0.0.1 localdev.umbraco.com). I believe this is because the solution is designed to run multiple instances of Umbraco web sites through the same Accelerator instance and the Accelerator uses the host header to map to the correct web code in BLOB storage. When running in VS debug (F5), a new port number is issued every time. This is no problem when running in Azure itself, because I can make my host entry using the setting found in the windows Azure Management Portal and it doesn't change.
Any other gotchas that I have not yet found?

New Post: 4.6 and rapid deployment

tjordan2011 — Tue, 03 May 2011 19:59:05 GMT

Thanks Morten - worked first time, up and running in an hour.

New Post: 4.6 and rapid deployment

sitereactor — Tue, 03 May 2011 16:41:55 GMT

Hi Tom,

I would recommend you take a look at the new Windows Azure Accelerator located here: http://waacceleratorumbraco.codeplex.com - with it you will be able to run the newest version of Umbraco (4.7.0) .NET 4.0 on Azure with multiple instances.
As far as I remember the Rapid Deployment Accelerator uses (or deploys to) an older version of Azure OS that doesn't work with .NET 4.0 and Umbraco 4.6 and newer.

Morten

New Post: 4.6 and rapid deployment

tjordan2011 — Tue, 03 May 2011 14:01:46 GMT

Hi,

I've succesfully got the clean Umbraco install going and all looks good.

I'm now having a go at moving a local 4.6 install over with the Rapid Deployment tool (which is great by the way).

However, it seems the runtime environment framework is defaulting to .net 3.5, and obviously throwing up an assemby error.

How can I force v4.0.30319? I've tried adding:

To the config, but without any luck.

Is this possible? do I need to make some changes to the AcceleratorWorkerRole assembly?

Thanks for any help.

Tom

New Post: Rich text editor does not work with Umbraco Azure Accelerator

and_mora — Thu, 31 Mar 2011 21:39:04 GMT

esping2 did you find the solution to this error? I have the same problem.

New Post: Deployment Accelerator - content editing toolbar

and_mora — Thu, 31 Mar 2011 21:26:30 GMT

Somebody found the solution to this issue? I have the same problem

New Post: Umbraco Azure Accelerator and HTTPS

NicolasRuiz — Thu, 31 Mar 2011 14:53:05 GMT

Hello Martin,

Could you detail which accelerator ('Umbraco Azure Solution' or 'Umbraco Azure Deployment') you used and what have been your complete process to activate encryption ?

Thanks,

Nicolas.

New Post: No muestra la opción de texto enriquecido

edjair — Tue, 22 Mar 2011 15:03:19 GMT

Buenos Días..

Instale el accelerator para Umbraco en Azure, todo funciono correctamente, pero cuando estoy ingresando un texto enriquecido no me lo muestra, por lo consiguiente no puedo editar nada, me podrían por favor colaborarme a ver si ya les habia generado este error y como se podria solucionar.

Muchas Gracias

New Post: Umbraco Accelerator - Scaling to Multiple Instances?

davidjrh — Thu, 10 Feb 2011 17:44:21 GMT

AFIK, the accelerator only supports one instance because the Cloud Drive can't be mounted by more than one role at the same time -this is by cloud drive design. I haven't tested with more than one instance because I understand that it should be working with different snapshots of the VHD, so the content should be different also.

So you can scale to a smaller/bigger instance (ExtraSmall, Small, Medium, Large and ExtraLarge) with more memory and processor, but not to more instances. I think that the Umbraco accelerator is a tool for publishing sites that not require the SLA 99.99% (needs at least 2 instances running).

Umbraco has announced that they are working in the new version that has been redesigned to work in Windows Azure, without the accelerator limitations.

This is that I know. If you know anything else I would be very interested in, too.

Regards,

David Rodríguez

New Post: Umbraco Accelerator - Scaling to Multiple Instances?

EwaB — Thu, 10 Feb 2011 16:49:53 GMT

I'm also eagerly waiting to know the answer to this questions!

EwaB

Thanks!

New Post: Umbraco Accelerator - Scaling to Multiple Instances?

sitereactor — Wed, 09 Feb 2011 13:40:56 GMT

I'm also very interested in knowing whether multiple instances is handled by the Umbraco Accelerator. I have done a couple of tests launching umbraco sites with the Accelerator on multiple instances, but can't seem to get it to work. After deploying and when the instances are running I can enter the site althoght it doesn't seem to be fully functional (some assets seem to be missing / not loading), but in a majority of the times I enter the site I just get system-out-of-memory errors. When only using one instance the umbraco site runs fine.

Any clarification is appreciated.

Thanks

New Post: Umbraco Accelerator - Scaling to Multiple Instances?

pmiller — Wed, 09 Feb 2011 13:27:37 GMT

One of the main advantages of hosting on Azure is the ability to scale to multiple instances to handle high volume (sustained or peaks) of traffic. Does the Umbraco accelerator support this? If so, what mechanism is used to synchronise the XML cache (contained in umbraco.config)?

Thanks!

New Post: Deployment Accelerator - content editing toolbar

esping2 — Fri, 04 Feb 2011 16:44:01 GMT

Hi Ewa,

I created a thread 'Rich text editor does now work with Umbrraco Azure Accelerator' a couple of minutes ago and now I realize that we are probably writing about the same problem.

Have you found a solution?

Best regards,

Martin

New Post: Rich text editor does not work with Umbraco Azure Accelerator

esping2 — Fri, 04 Feb 2011 16:38:05 GMT

It seems like it is not possible to use the RichText data type in Umbraco when deployed to Azure using the Accelerator.

I deployed Umbraco using the package and scripts found here: http://azureaccelerators.codeplex.com/documentation and then created a simple document type/template/page with a RichText property. When I try to edit that page the richtext editor won't show up. When I run Fiddler to check the data sent/received I noticed that all requests for /umbraco_client/tinymce3/ and below fails with http status 502.

When I examined the request sent from the browser to the server I noticed that suddenly it tried to call my host on port 20000. A few requests earlier I found that the page http://<host>/umbraco/plugins/tinymce3/tinymce3tinymceCompress.aspx returned javascript that also mentioned port 20000 (see below).

HTTP/1.1 200 OK
Cache-Control: public
Content-Type: text/javascript; charset=UTF-8
Expires: Mon, 14 Feb 2011 16:32:43 GMT
Server: Microsoft-IIS/7.0
X-AspNet-Version: 2.0.50727
X-Powered-By: ASP.NET
Date: Fri, 04 Feb 2011 16:32:43 GMT
Content-Length: 532685

var tinyMCEPreInit = {base : 'http://<host>:20000/umbraco_client/tinymce3', suffix : '_src'};(function(win) {
    var whiteSpaceRe = /^\s*|\s*$/g,
        undefined;

    var tinymce = {
        majorVersion : '3',

        minorVersion : '3.3',

        releaseDate : '2010-04-19',

Is this due to a bug in the accelerator?

/Martin

I just noticed EwaB's post from wednesday 'Deployment Accelerator - content editing toolbar' that seems to be about the same problem

New Post: Umbraco Azure Accelerator and HTTPS

esping2 — Fri, 04 Feb 2011 15:00:04 GMT

Has anyone tried to deploy Umbraco with a SSL certificate and binding to port 443 for HTTPS using the accelerator?
I cannot get it to work. The deployment goes without any problems and accessing it through HTTP works as it should. However, when i try the same page with HTTPS i get the message that the server does not exist …

/Martin