I have a website that a converted into a web application running ASP.NET webforms.

The conversion has gone OK and I can run it locally in the Azure emulator, making use of Azure compute and the Azure blob storage.

However, when I come to publish the application to Azure, it gets stuck on "waiting to initialize" constantly (for 3 hours). At this point, I can RDP into the instance but there are no logs in the error log.

IIS has been created, and the website sits in e:\ drive as expected. From the local RDP I cannot view the website (404) and in the Azure management portal it just sits at the initializing stage with an aborted time updating on each refresh.

How do I know what the issue is?