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 […]
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Using Traffic Manager with Microsoft Azure Web App
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 →How to get a static IP address for your Windows App Service Web App
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 →My SSL Certificate doesn’t work on Azure Websites
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 […]
Read More →Enable System.Net tracing on Azure Websites (unable to connect to remote server)
It is becoming a common scenario that customers of Azure Web Apps are making requests to services hosted on other Azure IaaS or PaaS platforms, services not hosted on the Azure platform (on premise) and which use the System.Net class. For example, making a request from your code that uses either of the following code […]
Read More →Mapping a custom subdomain to an Azure Website
Mapping a custom domain name to your Azure Web App (Website) is based around a very important principle. The principle being that you need to add a CNAME with a HOST = awverify. This is how we confirm that you are indeed the owner of this domain. If you have access to the DNS file […]
Read More →Mapping a custom domain with a special character to an Azure Website
Azure Web Apps have not always supported the mapping of custom domain names with special characters in them, but it looks like it does now. I was able to map a custom domain with a special character to my Standard mode Azure Web App. To successfully configure an Azure Web App custom domain with a […]
Read More →Using LogParser to analyze the EVENTLOG.XML, Azure App Service Web App
If you have an active Azure Web App and you experience problems or want to do some checks on what might the problem, there is a file called EVENTLOG.XML which contain exceptions and information that may be helpful. The file is located in the /LogFiles directory on your Web App. Figure 1 illustrates how that […]
Read More →Why can’t I publish my web site to Microsoft Azure Web App
There are numerous ways to publish your web sites to a Microsoft Azure App Service Web App. Click on one of your App Service Web App and on the Quick Start page you see a link called ‘Set up deployment from source control’, as shown in Figure 1. Figure 1, Set up deployment from source […]
Read More →Get Azure App Service deployment logs from KUDU
If you are performing a deployment and it is not working, working only after some effort or it’s not working as expected, one feature that might help you find the reason is the deployment log available using KUDU. You can access your deployment details by entering https://***.scm.azurewebsites.net (where *** is the site name of your […]
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