Question

I’ve followed this tutorial (https://www.windowsazure.com/en-us/develop/nodejs/tutorials/create-a-website-(mac)/) to the letter but I’m not getting the response I expect from my node server.

It works when I run node locally but once deployed to Azure I get this error:

iisnode encountered an error when processing the request.

HRESULT: 0xb HTTP status: 500 HTTP reason: Internal Server Error

This is my server.js:

var http = require( "http" );

http.createServer(function ( req, res ) {
    res.writeHead( { "Content-Type": "text/plain"} );
    res.end( "Hello Azure!\n" );
} ).listen( process.env.port );

Answer 1

I just tried the exact same steps myself of the tutorial and was able to get the Hello world message. This is my deployment at the moment: http://nodetestordinacc.azurewebsites.net/ (Note, I’ll likely remove it in the future).

If it all runs locally then you should be able to follow the steps like I did from the tutorial and get it running successfully.

Can you verify the steps:

• git init (I used the Github shell)
• git add .
• git commit -m “initial commit”
• git remote add azure [URL for remote repository]
• git push azure master

The [URL for remote repository] must be replaced with the url the portal provided in the beginning of the tutorial:

Update:

This is the code I used. Please copy it over exactly:

var http = require('http');
var port = process.env.port || 1337;
http.createServer(function(req, res){
    res.writeHead(200, {'Content-Type':'text/plain'});
    res.end('Hello World\n');
}).listen(port);