angular 2 azure deploy refresh error : The resource you are looking for has been removed, had its name changed, or is temporarily unavailable

You have to add web.config file to your root Angular2 app. That's how Azure servers (IIS Server) works.

Im using webpack so I put it on src folder. Don't forget to copy it to your dist folder when you depploy. I used CopyWebpackPlugin to setup my webpack to copy it.

This is the web.config file:

<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
<configuration>
    <system.webServer>
        <rewrite>
            <rules>
                <clear />
                <rule name="Redirect to https" stopProcessing="true">
                    <match url="(.*)" />
                    <conditions>
                        <add input="{HTTPS}" pattern="off" ignoreCase="true" />
                    </conditions>
                    <action type="Redirect" url="https://{HTTP_HOST}{REQUEST_URI}" redirectType="Permanent" appendQueryString="false" />
                </rule>
                <rule name="AngularJS Routes" stopProcessing="true">
                    <match url=".*" />
                    <conditions logicalGrouping="MatchAll">
                        <add input="{REQUEST_FILENAME}" matchType="IsFile" negate="true" />
                        <add input="{REQUEST_FILENAME}" matchType="IsDirectory" negate="true" />
                    </conditions>
                    <action type="Rewrite" url="/" />
                </rule>
            </rules>
        </rewrite>
    </system.webServer>
</configuration>

It has 2 rules:

1st rule is to redirect all calls to https. Remove it if you don't use https.

2nd rule is to fix your problem. I got reference of 2nd rule here (thanks to user gravityaddiction from www.reddit.com):

A simpler version of @Guilherme Teubl 's method. This worked for me perfectly.

<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
<configuration>
  <system.webServer>
    <rewrite>
      <rules>
        <rule name="Angular4" stopProcessing="true">
          <match url=".*" />
          <conditions logicalGrouping="MatchAll">
            <add input="{REQUEST_FILENAME}" matchType="IsFile" negate="true" />
            <add input="{REQUEST_FILENAME}" matchType="IsDirectory" negate="true" />
          </conditions>
          <action type="Rewrite" url="/" />
        </rule>
      </rules>
    </rewrite>
  </system.webServer>
</configuration>

If anyone is still stuck with this i would like to add two things.

1. add the web.config to your src folder. In my case having the web.config in the root did not solve the issue.

2. Add it to your .angular-cli.json like so

   "apps": [ { "root": "src", "outDir": "dist", "assets": [ "assets", "favicon.ico", "web.config" ], ... } ],