The process for mapping a wildcard domain, for example *.contoso.com to a Web App can be achieved by performing the following: Adding a CNAME at your domain hosting provider Adding the custom domain within the Azure portal Adding wildcard domain names to multiple Web Apps Once these steps are complete, accessing your Web App using […]
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I was following these instructions here using CERTREQ to create my certificate request, and everything worked fine up to step 6. In step 6 is states that I should have a CER file. I wrote some articles about creating a certificate here and here, where there is a CER file created, however, when I downloaded […]
Read More →When you scale to more than a single instance of a Web App, it gets a little complicated to monitor or troubleshoot an issue. The complicated part is trying to find which of the instances are experiencing the problem. In many cases, a majority of the requests complete just fine, but from time to time, […]
Read More →If your Web App is not behaving like you expect, you might consider implementing Auto Healing. Auto Healing for a Web App lets you take an action when certain events occurr, for example: When request count breaches a certain limit When requests are running slower that expected When an unexpected http status code is received […]
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One of the surprises I had when I moved many of my sites from a domain hoster to an Azure Web App was that the platform only provided web services and that I had lost my SMTP services. That meant I was not able to send or receive emails from my private domains. I rushed […]
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I setup a Web App to test deployments from GitHub. Once the Web App was created I linked it to GitHub by selecting the “Integrate source control” link on the main page of for the website and selected GitHub. Following the wizard I was able to make the link between the 2. The details are […]
Read More →When you choose a region to place your Web App into, it is placed onto a stamp or scale unit. The scale unit is an isolated entity within the region or datacenter. This entity encapsulates and protects the Web Apps contained within it from service interruptions that may happen in other scale units. When you […]
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I watched this Channel9 Video here and decided to reproduce it in writing. The steps required to create this sample HelloWorld WebJob for hosting with a Web App are: Create a Web Site and Console Application Include the Console App into the Web Site Deploy the Web Site to a Web App Execute the WebJob […]
Read More →I not only support Azure Web Apps, formerly Azure Websites, but I use it too. I had a site that was getting the exception shown in Figure 1. The error was “Timeout expired. The timeout period elapsed prior to obtaining a connection from the pool. This may have occurred because all pooled connections were in […]
Read More →There are a few other resources about this here and here, but as experiences and changes happen, documenting and sharing different perspectives help move projects and people forward. Additionally, there is no better way to learn than by doing and no better way to remember than by documenting or writing it down. Here is an […]
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