Have you ever FTPed some files to your Azure App Service and when you went to browse the site you still saw the old files or the ones you published do not exist? When you have multiple Azure App Services hosted in the same region (I.e. West Europe, East US, etc…), exist in the same […]
Read More →Controlling access to a website is cool. I have mostly used Forms Authentication in the past, hashed the credentials, then stored and retrieved them from a custom database during the login. However, starting now, I think I will use Azure Active Directory (AAD) from now on, as it has so many options, it is very […]
Read More →There is a great overview of Web Hosting Plans here, so this blog is not about what they are but 2 experiences I have had with them. Why do I think they exist now How I recently cleaned up my subscription with them For someone who has been using Azure App Services for some time […]
Read More →I was making a lot of changes to one of my Azure Websites the other day and received the messages within the Azure Management Console similar to those shown in Figure 1 and 2. Figure 1, Updating the configuration for web site failed Figure 2, The deployment history is unavailable when the site is stopped […]
Read More →404 status codes can be a little misleading. I wrote another article here about 404’s here from an on premise IIS perspective, but in principle the information applies. The fact about 404’s is that there are many sub status codes lined to the 404 status code. Most people believe that the 404 means simply that […]
Read More →NOTE: since the update to Windows Server 2016 and IIS 10 this capability is no longer supported and it likely never will be again. In the short-term, you need to be looking for an alternative and learn to live without this one….IMO. Consider Web Apps for Containers. I wrote an article about configuring remote IIS […]
Read More →I wanted to share an experience I had when using the Azure Traffic Manager with 2 Microsoft Azure App Service Web Apps. If you are not clear on what the Traffic Manager does, read my other post here. Simply, it is a way to balance load across multiple identical instances of an application so that […]
Read More →One of the most challenging aspects of creating a disaster recovery environment was having a quick failover to a website that exists in another datacenter. These failover instances usually contained stale code, the hardware for the environment was expensive and rarely, if ever utilized and when we tried to failover to the DR it rarely […]
Read More →11-AUG-2016: This article discusses INBOUND IPs, if you are looking for a single outbound IP address, Web Apps do not support that, instead there is a group of ~4 outgoing IP addresses described here. If you want your own set of outbound IPs, consider an ASE described here. 25-OCT-2017: If you delete an existing binding […]
Read More →In this post I will discuss 2 issues you might encounter when configuring an SSL certificate on Azure Web App. The certificate does not show in the drop-down. Browsing to your website over SSL / HTTPS you receive a security warning and the Azure Website wildcard certificate is delivered. ##The certificate does not show in […]
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