Can someone please direct me to a tutorial or explain the process of hosting (if possible) with Windows Azure? I have my own domain name and I would like to know how I can host my website with windows azure. It gives you the option of creating and publishing a xxx.azurewebsites.net but I would like to use my own personal domain.
Read Azure Websites and Apps. Then you can review Configure a custom domain name in Azure App Service.
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Is it possible to remote-connect to an Azure App Service running on Windows with my IIS Manager?
This seems to have been possible according to this blog post by clicking in IIS Manager File -> Connect to a site.
I refer to the steps mentioned in the link shared by you and in the last step I got an error below.
I did some research on it and it looks like managing the App Service from IIS is not supported anymore. I have not got any official link but the below links might give you some information on it.
Microsoft.Web.Configuration.AppHostFileProvider not found after configured Remote IIS Administration for Microsoft Azure Web App
Can no longer manage any Web Apps with IIS Remote Manager - Could not load file or assembly - AppHostFileProvider
I'm not sure for what purpose why you want to. My thoughts is you shouldn't be doing that as it defeat the purpose of PaaS services. Cannot access the iis layer in app service however you can still configure in web.config of your web app.
I bought a domain through azure portal but i can't find any file manage option for my domain and there is no option to manage mail account. I want to know if there is any portal like CPANEL or something similar for domain managing?
There is no cPanel like hosting admin in Microsoft Azure Web Apps.
cPanel is a hosting platform used by shared hosting providers such as GoDaddy or HostGator. Microsoft Azure is a cloud hosting platform in which you manage your cloud as if it where your server. You have to manually go in and setup your web apps, virtual machines etc.
If you want to use cPanel you could always spin up a Linux VM and then install cPanel on it. This will give you full control like with the other providers.
Hope this helps. Feel free to reach out to me with any questions!
I have been doing this with webrole. But as I understand windows azure websites: multiple sites hosted in a single webrole.
Q.1. Is it possible to connect to webrole?
Q.2. Is it possible to atleast connect to Azure IIS management console?
Adding to Jeff's answer, while you can't remote debug your website, you can terminal connect to it by going to the scm endpoint of your site: http://{sitename}.scm.azurewebsites.net and selecting "Debug console".
More on this here: https://github.com/projectkudu/kudu/wiki/Kudu-console
It will give you a nice way for managing some aspects of your site (mainly file based) but will not let you do other things like install office for example.
No, with Windows Azure Web Sites it is a managed solution. You can edit web.config and use the management portal, but there is no more direct ways to access the underlying compute resource.
By default, the naming conventions of Azure websites/webapps are somesubdomain.cloudapp.net and somesubdomain.azurewebsites.net. If I have an existing website that I have currently hosted through, say GoDaddy, and the website is www.mysite.com, how can I tell the registrar (DNS) to look at Azure's servers for the website content (I have experience in changing the nameservers to point to a particular web hosting company's nameservers, but it appears that there isn't a such thing with Azure).
Ultimately what I want to do is go to www.mysite.com and have the content hosted on Azure, running on Azure's VMs. Is the only way to mess with the CNAME, A, etc. properties of the DNS?
I have a VM on Azure that I want to use to host my websites. This is the platform that I will be using. I'm not using an Azure "website" or a "cloud service".
Yes, the only way to get this working as you describe it is to fiddle with the DNS, with a CNAME and A records.
A good description of how this is done can be found here:
http://www.windowsazure.com/en-us/develop/net/common-tasks/custom-dns/
There is an official documentation, relatively easy to find with a simple internet search:
How to use custom domain with Cloud Service and Storage Account
How to use custom domain with Azure Web Sites
EDIT
One thing good to remember is that a Windows Azure Virtual Machine (IaaS) runs in a Cloud Service. Meaning that for each VM, or set of VMs you have a cloud service created (i.e. mywhateverVM.cloudapp.net). This cloud service is implicitly created when you use the portal wizard to create the VM. Or explicitly (you create it) when you create VMs with PowerShell.
So the "How to use custom domain with Cloud Service" applies also for the Azure VMs with no change at all.
I'm new to Azure and have set up an Asure web site which will connect to a SOLR instance on an Azure VM. The web site cannot communicate with SOLR (port 8080) unless I create an endpoint. In order to create an endpoint I need to provide an internal and external port, however I do not want to allow external/remote access to SOLR, other than from the web site itself. Can anyone tell me how I should allow the web site to communicate with my VM, without making the VM publicly accessible?
Thank you,
JP
As #hhaggan stated, you cannot create a virtual network connection, or secure an endpoint, from Web Sites to a Virtual Machine. One option to consider is the use of SSL+certificate to secure the endpoint.
If you instead deploy your web application to a web role (in a cloud service) or a virtual machine, you can then take advantage of a brand new feature called Endpoint ACL. In essence, you can whitelist / blacklist a set of IP address ranges that may access your SOLR external endpoint. You can read about ACL'd endpoints, and how to configure them, here.
Now: You might be asking yourself why this doesn't work with Web Sites. That's because Web Sites runs on a server farm, and sites don't get unique IP addresses (unlike Cloud Services).
if you are talking about Windows Azure Websites, I am not sure if this can be done but if you are talking about Web roles in Windows Azure Cloud service, here is something that I hope it can be beneficial.
Connect ASP.NET application to SQL Server in Windows Azure via Virtual Network http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/windowsazure/jj823135.aspx
you might also would like to have a look on this http://www.windowsazure.com/en-us/services/virtual-network/ I don't think you will need it but I am just sharing it with you, it is for WIndows Azure Virtual Network.
let me know if this solved your problems or if you need anything else.