WebsitePanel 2 totally NOT working on Windows Server 2012 on Azure
- by Carmine Giangregorio
I’m having many troubles installing WebSitePanel on an Azure Virtual Machine, with Windows Server 2012. I followed the steps in http://www.websitepanel.net/documentation/deployment-guide/server-configuration/preparing-windows-server-2008-r2-for-websitepanel-installation/ and installed everything I needed.
Then, I installed the WebSitePanel Standalone Server package with the installer. I opened the endpoint for the port 9002 on Windows Azure; so I pointed my browser to myhostname.cloudapp.net (note: in Azure you don’t have a static IP address, instead you have an hostname like [hostname].cloudapp.net). So, loading myhostname.cloudapp.net:9002 fails, and any browser shows something like “Unable to load page”.
Notice: if I try to load the WebSitePanel Portal directly on the server, I get an error HTTP 400 Bad Request.
How come? IIS works perfectly on the server, in fact the default website runs without problems on port 80.