Can classic ASP pages work in Azure?

Question

I am looking at Azure and not sure if Classic ASP (i.e. ASP 3.0 with .ASP extensions) can work in Azure?

I found this blog post since January 2009, in which "Classic ASP" cannot be run on Azure. But this compatibility page now looks like this: you can run other platforms on Azure, such as PHP. I still don't see a mention of classic ASP.

Can classic ASP pages work in Azure?

Answer 1

Not yet, but as soon as the new role of the virtual machine becomes available, you can configure your own virtual server to support the classic ASP. There is no time indicated by AFAIK, but "soon" has been mentioned.

These servers will run on Azure hardware, but they will not run Azure Guest OS 1.x, so you cannot easily use Azure features such as Storage or AppFabric ... then you may not want the classic ASP environment :-)

EDIT: at the time of the request, my answer was correct (there was no full IIS), but a lot has changed, so the answer in 2012 will definitely be yes, as described below.

Answer 2

Check it out - http://channel9.msdn.com/Shows/Cloud+Cover/Cloud-Cover-Episode-31-Startup-Tasks-Elevated-Privileges-and-Classic-ASP , after about 15 minutes they will tell you how run Classic Asp on Azure

The actual launch command is at 23:51 inside the video.

I tried to reproduce the code that they have on the show, but I get an error message - "CloudServices64: cannot find a file named" approot \ bin \ startup.cmd "to start startup.cmd when trying to build a project. Hope this only me and you are more lucky.

To solve the error "CloudService ...." - see http://207.46.16.248/en-us/library/gg456327.aspx It says that you need to set the properties in the file "copy to output directory" always

Answer 3

Yes, instructions for turning it on:

http://coderead.wordpress.com/2011/09/20/running-classic-asp-on-azure/

Answer 4

Nope. You can try recoding ASP pages with something like ASP Classic Compiler .