Azure Web Site not updating via Visual Studio Web Deploy

Question

This may be a basic question, but I've searched for a little while and couldn't find anything specific to this.

I bought a domain and created the web app in Azure for hosting, and set up the DNS so that it's linked to the Azure Web App. Using Visual Studio 15, I opened the website via the FTP connection settings found in Azure, and was able to create files, edit the html, css, etc. Going forward, I wanted to use Web Deploy with Visual Studio to push new builds of the code up to the web site. I downloaded the publish profile from Azure, and imported it into a new visual studio project. I also copied all the previous files over(it wasn't alot). I got the correct Web Deploy settings and successfully published the solution to the Web App in Azure. However, it never updates the code with my new changes. When I look at the site in Firebug it still has the same files/code that it had when I edited it via FTP.

Any idea what I'm doing wrong?

Answer 1

I followed your steps and everything published perfectly for me. Did you try to simply refresh the file list to make sure Visual Studio is seeing all your files? Are they included in your project?

Also, when you go to publish, on the 4th step labeled preview, try to hit "start preview" and see if it detects any changes.

Also, could you tell me a bit more about your project? Is it a website project folder, mvc solution, etc?

Answer 2

You could try to clean the website to make sure your new files are getting deployed.

Clean Windows Azure Website