For migrating D7.3 to D7.42 completed the normal steps. Post that run /update.php.
Could not connect to server Overview: Could not connect to abc.azurewebsites.net . Details: Peer disconnected after first handshake message: Possibly SSL/TLS Protocol level is too low or unsupported on the server
URL formed in browser even during the error is as below:-
https://abc.azurewebsites.net/update.php?op=selection&token=JYkvAlNOkbWlBmj8BFRDrUlWmFXmZIysqgXO9ZzUjNs
Other Details
=> Azure Subscription
=> To Scale, Kept instance count to 3/ Pricing Tier to standard / Instance size to medium 2 cores.
=> First time, I run, I got the Review updates stage with 2 database columns alteration message listed and applied it. After few couple of attempts, I also got the message "No Pending updates" and link to front and admin sites.
=> In Settings.php, $update_free_access = TRUE was kept for update run.
Query:
I follow the official guide at https://www.drupal.org/node/1494290 to upgrade Drupal from 7.3x to 7.42, which works fine on my side. Also I cannot reproduce your issue here.
And there some points we should pay attention to during the updating.
web.config
as well on Azure). Which should be in D:\home\site\wwwroot
on Azure Web Apps.update.php
.As a workaround, you can upgrade your site on locally, and with the database connection info to the MySQL Service on Azure. Then deploy your new Drupal site to Azure.