Deploying the Play 2.3.X app to Windows Azure

I recently created a small web app using Play 2.3.4. It works fine locally, so now I want to run it on Windows Azure.

So far I have created a Java website using the Azure Application Gallery by following this tutorial http://azure.microsoft.com/en-us/documentation/articles/web-sites-java-get-started/ . The server I chose was Apache Tomcat 7. Next Steps is a tutorial, http://azure.microsoft.com/en-us/documentation/articles/web-sites-java-add-app/ which says, that I need to place the WAR file in the webapps folder. I followed the guide to package a Play app as a WAR file using the Play2War plugin. Then I added that the WAR file for d: \ home \ site \ wwwroot \ bin \ apache-tomcat-7.0.52 \ webapps via FTP.

However, when I go to the site, all I see is the default tomcat page.

First question :

Have I used the Play2War plugin correctly?

I changed plugins.sbt and build.sbt

plugins.sbt

resolvers += "Typesafe repository" at "http://repo.typesafe.com/typesafe/releases/"

// The Play plugin
addSbtPlugin("com.typesafe.play" % "sbt-plugin" % "2.3.4")

// web plugins
addSbtPlugin("com.typesafe.sbt" % "sbt-coffeescript" % "1.0.0")

addSbtPlugin("com.typesafe.sbt" % "sbt-less" % "1.0.0")

addSbtPlugin("com.typesafe.sbt" % "sbt-jshint" % "1.0.1")

addSbtPlugin("com.typesafe.sbt" % "sbt-rjs" % "1.0.1")

addSbtPlugin("com.typesafe.sbt" % "sbt-digest" % "1.0.0")

addSbtPlugin("com.typesafe.sbt" % "sbt-mocha" % "1.0.0")

addSbtPlugin("com.github.play2war" % "play2-war-plugin" % "1.3-beta2") 

      

        
        
        
      

    

build.sbt

import com.github.play2war.plugin._

name := """playtest4"""

version := "1.0-SNAPSHOT"

Play2WarPlugin.play2WarSettings

Play2WarKeys.servletVersion := "3.0"

lazy val root = (project in file(".")).enablePlugins(PlayJava)

scalaVersion := "2.11.1"

libraryDependencies ++= Seq(
  javaJdbc,
  javaEbean,
  cache,
  javaWs
)

      

        
        
        
      

    

Then I installed sbt and ran the sbt war command. The play2war deployment page says that if I want to deploy my app as context root http://host:port/

, I need to rename the WAR app as ROOT.war for Tomcat 7, but that still didn't work.

Second question :

Is there an easier way to deploy my application to Azure?

Thank!