Folder permissions in Azure web sites

Question

Just getting my head around the new Azure web sites feature and hitting my first obstacle. I\'m deploying a PHP site which writes cache data to the file system, but the app

Answer 1

Is the folder that the app is trying to write to under the site's folder?

It's my understanding that folder permissions cannot be set/changed. But I haven't seen anything from Microsoft that definitively says "yes" or "no" to that.

Answer 2

It should be possible using webdeploy.

However I don't think there is a way do it without manually setting up the webdeploy package - as described in the post http://blogs.msdn.com/b/azureappgallery/archive/2013/04/03/set-file-folder-permissions-for-your-content-on-azure-website-using-web-deployable-package.aspx.

Answer 3

Your site can only write to locations under C:\DWASFiles\Sites\[siteName]\VirtualDirectory0 and to the %TEMP% folder.

Two caveats here:

1. Stuff can't be written directly under VirtualDirectory0, you have to create a subfolder under there and place your files in that subfolder
2. The %TEMP% folder really is temporary! If your site instance goes down for any reason and is brought back up somewhere else then everything in your %TEMP% folder will be gone. Use it only for files that really are temporary.

Answer 4

Folder permissions cannot be set/customized. This means whatever location your app writes to should be under your site root.