Hosting Umbraco as an Azure App Service (Web App)

Hi there,

I’m trying to host a completely vanilla Umbraco install as an Azure App Service. Got my basic build and deploy pipelines running, but I’m running into problems with (I think) file system permissions when I hit the site.

I’ve been doing some reading around the subject to try to get to the bottom of it, but the words from Microsoft strongly suggest that giving write access to the files system backing a web app is just not a thing Azure Web App sandbox · projectkudu/kudu Wiki · GitHub

Which is odd because I’m clearly not the first person to attempt this and the Umbraco docs suggest that it’s possible. Does anyone have any experiences of actually doing this? Is there something blinding obvious to which I’m oblivious?

Thanks for any clues you guys can offer :slight_smile:


This is a companion discussion topic for the original entry at https://our.umbraco.com/forum/110626-hosting-umbraco-as-an-azure-app-service-web-app