Let's say I have a website that is hosted on a traditional dedicated hosting:
http://www.mycompany.com
This website has 'folders' like /area1, /area2, /area3, etc.
I'd like to host /area1 and /area3 on Windows Azure, and keep the other parts of the website hosted on my existing dedicated hosting.
Is it possible? How?
Subfolders will always be requested against the base host, you will not be able to serve content from the Azure instance without first hitting your www server. If you use subdomains on the other hand (like #CSharpRocks suggest) you will be able to configure separate DNS entries and thus direct traffic directly to the Azure web role without ever hitting your dedicated server.
Not exactly what you're looking for but you can set a CNAME that points to a Web role. You'll end up having something like this:
http://area1.mycompany.com
http://area2.mycompany.com
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I have some HTML widgets hosted on an Azure website. I would like to move these to a different Azure website.
Unfortunately, the mobile apps that consume these widgets are referencing their Azure sub-domain name directly. Example: old_widgets_site.cloudapp.net
Now I would like to shut down the old location where the widgets are hosted and move over to a new Azure website. Example: new_widgets_site.cloudapp.net :)
Is there a way for me to shut down the old website while still supporting the older mobile apps? Or do I have to keep the old app alive so I can host some kind of URL redirect mechanism on it?
PS - I know it's much better to reference a "virtual" domain name and have that redirect to Azure using DNS CNAMEs and I will. My question is not about that, but about redirecting *.cloudapp.net sub-domains.
To my understanding there is no option within Azure Web Sites to configure a redirect from within the portal.
What you could do is keep the old Web Site active and replace the content with a URL redirect statement in the web.config file (See: http://www.iis.net/learn/extensions/url-rewrite-module/using-the-url-rewrite-module). Of course that does mean you need to keep the old Web Site active.
Maybe you want to submit this idea using the Azure Feedback Forums: http://feedback.azure.com/
I currently have a VPS with another provider. On that VPS, I have IIS running with multiple app pools and web sites. I would like to get out of the "server management business", so it would seem that Azure Web Sites (Reserved) would be a great fit. I'm able to get the Azure Web Sites set up, including the custom domain piece. The problem that I can't seem to figure out is how to get the same URLs and behavior that I currently have on my VPS.
For example, I have URLs that look like this right now:
www.foo.com/bar
www.foo.com/baz
wildcard.foo.com/bla
I can't find a way to mimic that in Azure.
Things I've thought of/tried:
Go with one Azure Web Site and have separate virtual directories/app pools in Azure, but googling tells me that isn't supported.
Create 3 Azure Web Sites, one for each of the above. The problem there as I see it is I would need to change to use bar.foo.com, baz.foo.com, and bla.foo.com/wildcard (i.e. lose wildcard subdomain mapping and rework things to have a custom route at the end).
Maybe have one Azure Web Site with a rewrite URL? The problem I think I'd run into there is that it all runs in one app pool, so deploying one piece will affect all 3, and obviously a fault in one app would impact the other 2.
Has anyone else gone down this path and solved it? If the answer is spin up a virtual server, I'll probably just stay where I'm at.
Considering www.foo.com/bar, www.foo.com/baz and wildcard.foo.com/bla are 3 independent web applications that share a domain (foo.com):
Create a Windows Azure Website for each web application. You don't necessarily need to assign custom domain names to them.
Create another, separate website and assign to it the *.foo.com domain using an A record. Refer to Configuring a custom domain name for a Windows Azure web site for instructions. As documented, "With an A record, you map a domain (e.g., contoso.com or www.contoso.com) or a wildcard domain (e.g., *.contoso.com) to the single public IP address of a deployment within a Windows Azure web site. The main benefit of this approach over using CNAMEs is that you can map root domains (e.g., contoso.com) and wildcard domains (e.g., *.contoso.com), in addition to subdomains (e.g., www.contoso.com)."
In this "master" website, set up URL redirection (possibly with status code 307 Temporary Redirect) so that requests go to the appropriate applications.
Alternatively, to avoid the delay of the additional request caused by the redirection, set up the "master" website as a reverse proxy that transparently forwards the request to the "inner" web application and sends the response back to the user.
As yet another alternative, use a custom DNS service to do the routing at the DNS layer.
This way, each web application is independent and you solve the issue of routing requests to the appropriate application.
I've looked at all related posts in MSDN and stack overflow but still having difficulty finding a solution.
I am looking to map a domain and all sub-domains to my windows azure website. It is a reserved website instance. I am using Amazon Route 53 DNS manager and have mapped a wildcard CNAME to my azure sub domain, and created a redirect on the naked domain to the www. subdomain.
When I navigate to the naked root, the redirect kicks in and I'm brought to www..com, where I receive a 404 error from azure.
I know the wildcard CNAME is working. I've verified using MXToolbox. If I go to "Manage Domains" in the Azure web UI admin system, I can manually add "www..com" or any other subdomain (e.g. "helloworld..com"). Azure verifies it fine and after saving, I can pull up the website fine by navigating to that subdomain and my azure website loads.
Is there any way to add wild card subdomains without having to verify each one manually through the azure ui interface? My application is a SaaS that relies on custom user sub-domains to serve up their branded website and gain access to their account so I need any and all subdomains to map to my application.
Currently, wildcard domains are not supported as far as I know. At least on Windows Azure Web Sites. They are on the roadmap, but currently you'll have to rely on adding every domain manually.
See wildcard comment on "Configuring a custom domain name for a Windows Azure web site".
Another feature not yet available on Azure Web Sites is SSL using a vanity (your own) domain name. If you want full control of your site(s) you can use Azure Cloud Services instead of Web Sites. With Cloud Services you can provision certificates, domain names, and run multiple sites on the same instances using host header routing.
Anything you can do with IIS Management you can do with a cloud service.
You're a little closer to the metal compared to Azure Web Sites (but not as close as with a VM) and you get load balancing, scaling, caching, and other goodness. Visual Studio 2010/2012 has excellent deployment tooling. You will need to study up on Azure deployment projects from VS, bit it's not bad.
Let's take one case that i hosted my web application on window server 2008 R2 and one exe (console application) running on that server.
I can access that web application by URI:
<subdomain>.<domain>.net , is there any way to get subdomain and domain info from EXE (C#) ?
Thanks in Advance.
The answer is... it depends.
If you only have one site hosted on your box then you can just connect to the local instance via either the IP Address the website on the machine resolves too, or by using http://localhost etc.
When you have a URL, the situation becomes more complicated. The machine could be hosting several websites - how do you know which one you want to connect to? In this instance, I would advise just storing the url you want to connect to in config.
However, it should be possible to list the all of the domains from IIS - you'll need to use WMI.
Currently I'm trying to port a web application(ASP.NET MVC) to windows azure and have come across a point, I don't know how to solve.
The application is a multi tenant one. Every customer who registers, can enter a name for his instance and is able to surf the site later on over theenteredname.example.com. Further, the domain is used in an ActionFilter to switch between the databases.
How can I realize this in Windows Azure? I know that I must define a binding with defined hostHeader attribute, but as the subdomains a generated dynamically I would have to change the service definition every time a user registers and a new sub domain appears and redeploy it. But that is really not the way I want it.
Any help would be appreciated!
I think the problem is that IIS does not support subdomain wildcard mapping, see here Wildcard subdomains in IIS7. Is it possible to make them like it is in Apache? for more information.
If you would still like to do this there is a solution here http://www.seoconsultants.com/windows/isapi/subdomains/ , but it requires:
Ability to update DNS records
IIS web server admin access
ISAPI_Rewrite component (for Solution 2)
In Windows Azure, if you simply don't assign any host headers to your web role (which is the default), the site will be configured to accept any host header.
You still need to configure wildcard DNS to point to your Azure instance, just as you would for a non-Azure solution.