ASP Pages Throw 404 Errors in Windows Azure

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ASP Pages Throw 404 Errors in Windows Azure

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January 19, 2009 2:14 PM |

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Windows Azure does not support classic ASP pages. You won't be able to see this in the developer fabric because the developer fabric uses the local IIS installation on your workstation. That said, once you promote your site to the production Azure servers, you will quickly find out that ASP pages are not supported. You will experience a 404 error if you make a request to your ASP page. This may be unfortunate if you have some legacy code still in your application, but it makes sense because if you could host ASP pages, this would be outside of the managed-code sandbox and you could use COM interop to do a lot of things that they probably don't want you to do on the Azure servers. You will have to port your legacy ASP pages to ASPX before using Azure.

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