Deploying Kudu on a server

Question

I have setup a copy of Kudu on my local dev machine, and it works fine providing I run it from Visual Studio as Administrator

I would now like to deploy it to our public UAT server so we can use it for deploying testing sites. The UAT server is Windows Server 2008 R2.

I have followed the "Deploying to a server" instructions, however when I load the site I get the error:

You are running kudu against a local kudu service and are not an Administrator. Re-run this process as Administrator in order to continue.

While I understand Kudu needs to run as admin to create sites etc, I don't feel comfortable giving a public site admin privileges (even though it will have some form of authentication once I get it running).

The "Deploying to a server" instructions makes no mention of Administrator privileges, and I'm unable to find much documentation on the topic.

Anyway one had any luck with this?

Answer 1

I just had this issue. Open visual studio as admin: right click on the visual studio icon and you should see an option, something like 'open as admin'