Thursday, 19 November 2015
In azure portal - Click on Web apps tab from left panel - Select the website for which you want to deploy files through FTP(File transfer protocol).
Under dashboard tab - Click on setup your deployment credentials link to create ftp credentials for the first time. From second time you have to click on reset your deployment credentials.
Credentials will be username and password that can used in FTP client to connect to azure server to upload files.
Now on the same page at the bottom right side you can find ftp host name and ftp username which are required to connect to server.
Download and install Filezilla (free ftp client software) to connect to azure server.
In filezilla enter
host name
username,
and password.
Click on quick connect to connect to remote server and the files in remote server will be displayed in the below right side panel.
You can directly drag and drop from local site (Your system) to remote site (Azure server location).
Place files in wwwroot folder in server(/site/wwwroot).
Make sure that the startup page configured is present in your site to open as start up page.
Deploy the files and refresh your azure site to see the updated changes.
This process works for deploying PHP, wordpress and other sites as well.
