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 →IIS Admin Service fails to start
I was working on an unrelated issue and all of a sudden I started getting some strange errors in IIS. Something like the errors shown in Figure 1 and Figure 2. Figure 1 was rendered when I opened the IIS management console and attempted to expand the server name to see the websites on the […]
Read More →How I got HTTPS to work with the .Net Micro Framework and my Gadgeteer
I have begun my pursuit of the Internet of Things (IoT) via the .NET Micro Framework and a FEZ Spider. I am currently using the following SDKs: .NET MF 4.3 RTM (QFE1) .NET Gadgeteer NETMF and Gadgeteer Package 2014 R3 When I was trying to make a connection to my Azure Blob Storage, I was […]
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 →Configuring Application Request Routing (ARR) to use a port other than port 80
Application Request Routing is a software based load balancing system, plus more. When you configure your web farm you can choose from a number of different load balancing algorithm as shown in Figure 1. I needed to add that in because I like the load balancing features in ARR, it is so simple compared to […]
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 […]
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