Samples (and SignalR itself?) not working properly when hosted in Windows Azure

[ChristianWeyer]

Hey guys,

this looks like a very promising project :)

I took the samples web application and added it as a web site to an Azure web role - unfortunately the samples do not really work the way they do locally. E.g. in the shapes sample sometimes the shapes are not communicated to other peers or the shape is even not displayed in the initiating browser...

Is there any way to get more debugging information to sort out what is going wrong?

Thanks!

Cheers,
-Christian Weyer

Microsoft MVP for Windows Azure [Architecture]
http://weblogs.thinktecture.com/cweyer

[davidfowl]

You can navigate to elmah.axd and see if there are any errors there.

[ChristianWeyer]

Hm - this gives me:
403 - Forbidden: Access is denied.

[davidfowl]

What gives you access denied? Maybe a screenshot of the elmah page would help?

[ChristianWeyer]

http://signalr.thinkazure.net/elmah.axd gives me a typical IIS 403 Forbidden page (how can I attach pictures here? :))

[davidfowl]

Ah 403 for elmah. Go to web.config for the Samples project and add this:

<elmah>
         <security allowRemoteAccess="true" />
</elmah>

Then re-deploy and look at the errors.

[ChristianWeyer]

The config snippet did not come through the comment system...

[ChristianWeyer]

OK, now ELMAH works.Thx for this.

But there are no errors to be seen.
The samples just do not work as 'expected'... :( Any further idea?

[davidfowl]

Use firebug and take a look at the network traffic.

[ChristianWeyer]

I think sending emails back and forth with screenshots etc, would be much easier? :)
BTW: no errors in Firebug, IE F12 and Chrome F12 ...

... but the demos like Shape Share do "not work" (and this can be discussed better via email, IMHO).

[davidfowl]

Need to change the implementation of the signal bus and message store for more than one azure instance.