I’m wondering how to run a WordPress and virtual MVC application under the WP on Azure. I found a lot of articles about this but it is not working and Azure SDK is changing all the time, there is no actual informations.
Am I able to connect to the Azure Web Role IIS server remotely?
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Update by Jim O’Neil comment
Yes I mean ASP.NET MVC. “Not working” means taht WP on Azure by this and ASP.NET MVC app works separatelly but together doeasn’t. When I try add ASP .NET MVC as VirtualApplication by this tutrial VM on Azure is always in Busy state.
I need have an WP deployed on my domain example.com and ASP.NET MVC app at example.com/mvcapp. This should work on the Azure platform and could be reached by Virtual application feature of IIS. Then I hope that the Azure Web role is usable for this.
Do you have any idea?
If you really want to run wordpress website as http://www.example.com and ASP.NET MVC app as http://www.example.com/mvcapp then you could need to be little more creative to get it working. It is a doable task but need good understanding of Windows Azure platform, how Web Role works as well as PHP/WordPress knowledge.
I can point out some ideas on how you could do it but you would need to venture out to try and test. What you really need to create a ASP.NET Web Role with PHP support and have WordPress configured to it. This could be done at runtime or you can put together worldpress along with the PHP itself so when you deploy your application whole wordpress is configured as package. Now in the same web role you add virtual diurectory and have MVC app running as application there.
Keep in mind that whole web role will have one single web.config so you would need to make it work with both ASP.NET PHP application and then MVC application. Tough task to handle these two and will take time to put together.
The other easier option is to have PHP running inside a ASP.NET MVC application and in the PHP folder setup your WordPress application. This setup is easily configurable but it will change the location for wordpress and MVC app other way around.
Overall I really think you should rethink what you really want at the last because your objective just does not match with a need to have wordpress and ASP.NET MVC running together. If you just want to try for experiment, it sure is a great project and make you learn a lot.
This question is asked earlier @ SO also but had same response i.e why?