Category: Azure

There was a recent announcement of some new features on the Microsoft Azure App Service platform that supports the deployment of your new web site instance without impacting or changing the live web site. This is a feature that has been available on the Cloud Service platform form most of its existence and is very […]

Being part of the IIS support team I have memorized the structure of an IIS log file and can see oddities almost instantly. Therefore, one of the things I want to look at when troubleshooting any Microsoft Azure Web App issue are the logs. As Microsoft Azure App Service is relatively new when I work […]

If you are looking for a resource that describes installing an SSL certificate on a Azure Web App, check here. Here is more information about this configuration. There are multiple modes currently supported on the Azure Web App platform: SNI base SSL – This is a new feature in IIS 8+ (SNI) that extends the […]

A naked URL means that there is no www before the domain name and domain extension. For example, http://—.me which I use often to troubleshoot and experiment with mapping custom domains to my Azure Web App. An example of how to do map a custom domain is provided [here][LINK1], and would more than likely result […]

I wrote an article here about using Traffic Manager with your Azure Web App, please take a look at it to get more context for this article. When you create a Traffic Manager, for example, with a name of EUROPE, similar to that shown in Figure 1, the URL which you must direct your requests […]

Having spent many years supporting web sites running on IIS one of the most challenging aspects was managing load. I was able to plan for near-term growth by tracking the CPU, Memory, total number of requests, etc… over time and once the utilization of these elements exceeded my threshold for what I considered manageable, it […]

I wrote an article about the ability to enable Web Server Logging, Detailed Error Message, Failed Request Tracing and Application Logging here. In that article I discussed that you can download the logs using an FTP tool like FileZilla. You can also download the log files from within Visual Studio by performing the following. I […]

If you are receiving a 404 error while accessing your custom domain, as shown in Figure 1, then you are most likely missing the link between your Azure App Service Web App configuration and your custom domain. Figure 1, 404 File or directory not found when mapping custom domain Before we move to the solution, […]