Bot-Framework Composer: Deployment to azure fails

Stefan Hesse 1 Reputation point
2020-08-20T12:34:40.397+00:00

Hello,

I have created a small toy bot with the bot-framework composer. I verified that it works using the emulator.

After that I followed this guide: https://video2.skills-academy.com/en-us/composer/how-to-publish-bot using the function option.

First issue I hit here was that this one: https://github.com/microsoft/BotFramework-Composer/issues/3452

I built the latest version from source and then the deployment worked.

Then I tried to test the bot in "Bot management/Test in Web Chat" and that didn't work. No messages sent whatsoever.

In the channels tab I can see the following error: "There was an error sending this message to your bot: HTTP status code ServiceUnavailable"

The local emulator gives me: "POST503directline/conversations/<conversationId>/activities"

And chatting with the support we found this error message: "Function host is not running". I also read a similar message somewhere. My assumption is that there is something wrong with the serverless functions.

Thank you in advance
Stefan Hesse

Azure AI Bot Service
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  1. YutongTie-MSFT 51,696 Reputation points
    2020-08-20T15:35:17.123+00:00

    Hi Stefan,

    This error may happen if somebody didn't follow the deployment docs exactly. I recommend re-deploying, starting from the top.

    https://video2.skills-academy.com/en-us/azure/bot-service/bot-builder-deploy-az-cli?view=azure-bot-service-4.0&tabs=csharp

    Common hangups are:

    Not using a password that meets the requirements: 16 characters long, contain at least 1 upper or lower case alphabetical character, and contain at least 1 special character.
    Missing the last step and not actually deploying.
    Zipping up their files incorrectly. The file tree should look like this:
    /code.zip
    --app.py
    --requirements.txt
    --...
    and not like this:

    /code.zip
    --/myBot
    ----app.py
    ----requirements.txt
    ----...

    Please let me know if you still have error on this.

    Thanks,
    Yutong

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  2. Stefan Hesse 1 Reputation point
    2020-08-21T08:18:15.54+00:00

    Thank you for reply!

    Unfortunately that didn't work. I retried all the steps but without any success. I am not the only one who is affected by that: https://github.com/microsoft/BotFramework-Composer/issues/3722

    I have no idea what to do next

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