Access to IIS Website

Question

Hi all,

I am in a strange predicament. I have a partner who is international who has created websites built on IIS and Azure. He stopped working for me last year and I have been fighting to get access to the website because it needs to be updated and we own the brand. I am not familiar with this platform he built it on, but is there any way I could get access? I cant even sign in for IIS due to "login failure". Its been a whole year and need my websites back. Thank you guys! If you could also explain the process so I can ask him to add me as a collaborator or admin, that would be great.

Answer 1

Hi ZoeS-1390,

When you say built on IIS and Azure, may I know are you struggling to get hold of the published code or the actual codebase? By published code I mean the final compiled code that is running under IIS and serving as the website?

Do you have access to the respective Azure subscription? Was the subscription owned by you or by the other developer?

It all depends on who owns the subscription? If the developer owns the subscription and has decided to remain uncooperative to share the codebase then there is very slim chances you can get by any other way. Have you signed any contract with the developer at the start of work on the code ownership?

If the Azure subscription is owned by you and you are just struggling to get access sorted out then there are multiple ways you can fix that.

Let me know the further detail so that I can guide you accordingly.

Thanks
Varun

Answer 2

Hi @ZoeS ,

If you have an Azure subscription, you can try using IIS Manager to remotely manage Windows Azure Websites. IIS Manager has HTTP over SSL support to provide a secure Connection to your Windows Azure Website.

Prerequisites

• On Window client OS - IIS Manager for Remote Administration
• On Windows Server – Make sure you have installed IIS Management Console.

Steps for connecting to a Windows Azure Website

1. Run IIS Manager with remote administration and select the option Connect to a site…
   
2. In Server Name, type in the SCM URL for your site. The SCM URL (also known as KUDU site URL) is similar to your site’s URL, but with .SCM added after the site name in your site URL. For example, if your site name is Contoso, and your Azure Web Sites URL iscontoso.azurewebsites.net, then your SCM site would be contoso.scm.azurewebsites.net. In addition, you must specify the port 443 in the URL, as can be seen in the screenshot below:
   
3. Enter your publishing credentials. If you haven’t changed the system-generated password that Windows Azure created for you, then you could either reset them, or download them from the portal – see below for more information about that.
   
4. IIS Manager will now try to connect. If it is successful, you will be prompted to provide a name for the connection:
   
5. After you click Finish, IIS Manager will show you the familiar group of site-level configuration icons and options, and you can start administering your site!
   

Obtaining or resetting your deployment credentials
When you create a website in Windows Azure Web Sites, Azure automatically generates deployment credentials. The username is the site name, prepended by a dollar sign (for example, $contoso) and the password is a complex and long alphanumeric string. You can click Reset your deployment credentials on your site’s Dashboard to set your own password, or click Download the publish profile to download an XML file that contains the password that was generated for you.

Hope the above will help you.

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