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freakuency
freakuency

Reputation: 91

Publishing "baked" Orchard CMS to Azure CloudService

I am using Orchard CMS 1.6 with target deploy it to Azure cloud service. I have followed the steps in documentation Deploying Orchard to Windows Azure(http://docs.orchardproject.net/Documentation/Deploying-Orchard-to-Windows-Azure)

however,it hit time out error again and again during cooking receipe (Have tried with small VM)

My idea, is instead of running the setup process during initial setup, I would like to deploy the "baked" ready copy of Orchard (and manually deploying the DB scripts to SQL Azure) to cloudservice.

I tried with working on　Orchard.Azure.sln and building the package again with ClickToBuildAzurePackage.cmd but now I come to the error

"The type 'Orchard.Environment.Configuration.AzureBlobTenantManager' could not be found. It may require assembly qualification, e.g. "MyType, MyAssembly"."

Any idea or experience to share?

Thanks.

Upvotes: 3

Views: 896

Answers (1)

freakuency
freakuency

Reputation: 91

Finally I made it works on cloudservice.

My idea is to cooking the recipe on my local machine instead of on Azure itself, to avoid timeout problem. So, we will have the ready cooked structure in Azure Storage and database schema.

Then, build the package with ClickToBuildAzurePackage.cmd and deploy the package to Azure Cloud Service. The instance shall skip the setup process since the Azure Storage contains the required information.

Below are my workarounds:

  1. Download Orchard.Source.1.6.zip from the Orchard Codeplex
  2. Extract and open the Orchard.Source.1.6\src\Orchard.Azure\Orchard.Azure.sln
  3. Open the solution and edit your Orchard.Azure.Web role, change the Data Connection setting and Diagnostics to your production/development storage account.
  4. Create an empty database in your SQL Azure (Assume you are using SQL Server)
  5. Hit F5 to kick start the application and enter the setup information to start cooking recipe.
  6. You may have the Orchard cooking in browser.
  7. Once the Orchard is cooked. Check your Azure storage(With CloudBerry for example), you shall have the following folders: media site wad-control-container wad-iis-logfiles
  8. Follow the instruction from Deploying Orchard to Windows Azure
  9. You shall have the instance of Orchard running without kicking the setup process

Upvotes: 1

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