Authentication failed for Azure Git

Question

I\'m trying to clone my webapp in Azure.

When I run git clone https://username@appname.scm.azurewebsites.net:443/appname.git the terminal asks me for my

Answer 1

I had the same problem with my site and it turned out the issue is with the site url: the automatically generated remote url was: https://user@site.scm.azurewebsites.net/site.git

On the other hand the portal showed: https://user@site.scm.azurewebsites.net:443/site.git

After updating the remote url in git with the following command:

git remote set-url azure
https://@.scm.azurewebsites.net/.git
https://@.scm.azurewebsites.net:443/.git

things started working as expected.

The morale of the story: check the deployment url as well as the password.