This is a FAQ on GitHub which has a lot of information about 2016. If you are interested to find out which version of IIS or OS your Azure App Service is running on, you can check it like this. Check in KUDU Capture a Fiddler trace I wrote about KUDU here, just in case […]
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How to make an Azure App Service HTTPS only
I wrote this article some years ago here “HTTPS only on Azure App Service Web Apps” that explains how to redirect all traffic made to an Azure App Service using HTTP to HTTPS using a URL Rewrite rule. This is now achievable in the portal. To enable the HTTPS Only feature in the portal, navigate […]
Read More →Drag and drop deployment to an Azure App Service, quick, for simple small changes
There are many way to deploy code and files to an Azure App Service, repositories like Visual Studio Team Services, GitHub, content storage like OneDrive or Drop Box, using an FTP tool, use the command-line tool msdeploy or directly from within the Visual Studio IDE. However, if you wanted to deploy just a single or […]
Read More →Troubleshooting an Azure App Service backup issue
Here and here “My Backups are failing, Let’s open a support ticket” are some good information about how to configure an Azure App Service backup. I like the fact that you can also include a database backup in parallel with a backup of the web site. Keep in mind the limit of 10GB in regards […]
Read More →How to access KUDU SCM for an Azure App Service Environment (ASE)
I wrote the following articles about accessing KUDU / SCM on the multi-tenant version of Azure App Services. Using KUDU with Microsoft Azure Web Apps How to access KUDU using your Publishing Profile If you have managed to find this post, you likely already know what an App Service Environment (ASE) is, but just in […]
Read More →Set or change an Azure App Service file or folder permission
I was using FileZilla to try to change the file permissions and I got this error: Status: Setting permissions of ‘/site/wwwroot/index.html’ to ‘644’ Command: SITE CHMOD 644 index.html Response: 500 ‘SITE’: command not understood Status: Setting permissions of ‘/site/wwwroot/index.html’ to ‘755’ Command: SITE CHMOD 755 index.html Response: 500 ‘SITE’: command not understood Then I started […]
Read More →Deploy GitHub source code repositories to an Azure App Service
I have written a few articles about GitHub which you can review here. But now, what I want to do is to get one of those repositories onto/into, hosted on, running on an Azure App Service. There is this concept of Continuous Deployment, where I can check out code from the repository, modify it, test […]
Read More →Failed to deploy from GitHub to Azure App Service Web App, missing project reference
I was working on these other articles: How to deploy from GitHub using someone else’s repository How to configure GitHub or VSTS for use with an Azure Function Deploy GitHub source code repositories to an Azure App Service Failed to deploy from GitHub to Azure App Service Web App, missing project reference Deploy an App […]
Read More →Machine Keys on an Azure App Service, machineKey multiple instances Azure
When you run an ASP.NET application on multiple instances of an App Service Plan (ASP) you do not need to worry about machineKeys as the App Service Platform will use the same one across all your instances and therefore will not need to make any changes to your application. I found this sample code and […]
Read More →Scale an App Service from FREE to SHARED BASIC STANDARD or PREMIUM using PowerShell
Although I really prefer GUIs over scripts, I still find myself needing to help others resolve scripting issues. I recently needed to help find the way to scale an Azure App Service Web App from the default Tier of FREE to STANDARD. FREE is default when created from PowerShell and you do not provide a […]
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