After deploying one of our ASP.NET DNX web applications to Azure, we were running into this exception:
The specified CGI application encountered an error and the server terminated the process.
Knowing that the HTTP pipeline changed in beta 8, I looked into the
HttpPlatformHandler's configuration (summarized web.config):
<configuration>
<system.webServer>
<handlers>
<add name="httpplatformhandler" path="\*" verb="\*" modules="httpPlatformHandler" resourceType="Unspecified" />
</handlers>
<httpPlatform processPath="..\\approot\\web.cmd" arguments="" stdoutLogEnabled="true" stdoutLogFile="..\\logs\\stdout.log" forwardWindowsAuthToken="false" startupTimeLimit="3600"></httpPlatform>
</system.webServer>
</configuration>Nothing looked out of place. Following the suggestions of others, I attempt to
set the processPath to an absolute path (i.e. %home%\site\approot\web.cmd),
but that didn't resolve it.
After
reading through the various issues others had,
I found that removing the forwardWindowsAuthToken="false" attribute completely
resolved the issue.
Apparently this should go away as they roll out changes to the platform handler, but for now this fixed my issues.