Cannot use the editor functionality for Azure App services from the portal

Question

I enabled a WAF for my site and enabled IP restrictions so that all requests go through my firewall. I have not been able to use the edit functionality from the Azure Portal. I get a 403 error. What IP should I unblock?

Answer 1

@SilvaPaulaD Thanks for reaching here!

To access the editor, there are two ways-

1. Go to App Service Editor (Preview) in the Development Tools section of the left-hand navigation of your app and see if that works.
2. In your web app url, add scm between your web app’s name and azurewebsites.net, and append /dev at the end of your url. So, if your web app’s name is app-service-demo, to access App Service Editor you need the following url: http://app-service-demo.scm.azurewebsites.net/dev
3. Also, Could you check if you have contributor role for web app to access.

for details- see- https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/azure/role-based-access-control/built-in-roles

Also try to stop the service and restart it again might be helpful.

You may refer to this blog here Understanding the Azure App Service Editor might be helpful. Credit to Ken Cenerelli

Let us know if further query or issue remains.