does somebody know how it is possible to change the document root for windows azure web application to a sub folder?
Thx
Not right now with the default web roles.
You can:
Implement your own web host (hosting IIS core or any web server in web role)
Wait a bit till Azure starts supporting more flexibility out-of-the box (I think this was announced at the last PDC).
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In my current project. The previous dev has hosted an asp.net core 6 Web API as a window service using Kestrel on azure window virtual machine. I have to create a replica on the same API; please take a reference to the below links.
https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/aspnet/core/host-and-deploy/windows-service?view=aspnetcore-6.0&tabs=visual-studio
https://dev.to/sumitkharche/how-to-host-asp-net-core-3-1-web-applications-as-windows-service-52k2
I can create, build and install the API as a window service in an azure virtual machine and local machine as well, which also works in localhost: port.
Now I want to map that API to some domains like www.someting.com. But cannot find a way how to map a domain.
In this window service way, API hosting is pretty new to me, and there is also not enough documentation that can help me.
Please suggest.
Can I use Dreamweaver to build an HTML based site and then upload this site to the Azure platform via ftp, more specifically will Windows Azure recognise the default page for my website without explicitly having to reference it in the URL?
Azure PaaS (either Cloud Services or Web Sites), no.
Azure IaaS, yes... with a bunch of initial setup.
You could spin up an Azure VM and host a plain HTML web site from within IIS there. You would need to configure the IIS web site (e.g. start page) and set up the FTP server when you first provision the server.
My gut feeling is that Windows Azure is not a very economical hosting model for a project of this kind though.
Is it possible to have a wcf service role live in a virtual directory (or the equivalent not sure if that word is the appropriate one for Azure) of a web role on Azure.
For example:
www.mydomain.com <- contains the web role or website
www.mydomain.com/myservice.svc <- contains the WCF service
I've seen people suggest that you can change the config to allow for virtual directories, however I have RDPed into both VMs and they appear not to share the same files on disk.
I am Azure newbie, please forgive the terminology. But is it possible to do what I am wanting?
A web site and a WCF service can be accessed using the URLs you listed above if they are both in the same web role. You will get the URLs you describe above if you do the following:
Create a new cloud project in Visual Studio, specifying a Windows Azure Cloud Service.
At the prompt, add an MVC web role.
At the next prompt, select Internet Application and press OK.
When the project is created, right click on the MVC project and choose Add --> New Item --> WCF Service.
Press F5. The default ASP.NET MVC home page will show up. Then navigate to http://yourlocalhostaddress/Service1.svc. You'll see the typical "You have created a service" landing page for a new WCF service.
I have an Azure Website developed for which I would like to reduce the initial loading time. On a regular ASP.NET site I would configure the Application Initialization IIS module, but with Azure Websites direct IIS configuration is not possible.
The website is running in reserved mode if that makes any difference.
Actually, Application Initialization module is installed by default for Azure Web Apps. You can directly configure it from either your web.config file or through apphost.config XDT. Just stick something like below in a web.config in the root of your web app.
<system.webServer>
<applicationInitialization
doAppInitAfterRestart="true"
skipManagedModules="true">
<add initializationPage="/default.aspx" hostName="myhost"/>
</applicationInitialization>
</system.webServer>
Application Initialization is not supported with Windows Azure Websites. because it is a native module and Windows Azure Websites does not allow configuring native modules via web.config.
Alsom the content for Windows Azure Websites are physically located at a centralized location and from there they loaded and executed to webservers. While shared instance gets a slice of host VM, versus reserved instance get a full host VM to run your web applications, in both cases the website application is coming from same centralized located so it does not matter if you have reserve instance to get Application Initialization working.
Application Initialization is necessary for your application and your websites is running in reserve mode, you can use Azure VM or Windows Azure Web Role to have it working.
Currently there's "Always On" setting for Azure Websites which does pretty much the same thing.
I am new to windows azure plateform i want to ask a very basic question. I am doing a project on windows azure and due to some concurrency problems i want also my Browser GUI to be in the cloud which will call the web services which are also deployed in the cloud.
Just need to ask that is it possible that i will also put my GUI in the cloud and i have some URL which i will hit so that my GUI will appear in the users browser...
I want my architecture some what like that
Sorry for the drawing but i am in very hurry
Your web browser would be on the user's desktop, and make a HTTP request to a web application/site that is hosted in Windows Azure. For instance, an ASP.NET MVC web site that makes a service call to a WCF service, that then retrieves data from a SQL Azure database. One way to do this would be to create a single hosted service that contains:
Web Role (to host your ASP.NET site)
WCF Web Role (to host your WCF service)
SQL Azure (for your database)
I think the web GUI you mentioned would be like an agent, it will connect to the real websit and render the content for you. If this is true I would like to say in theroy it's possible, but in practice it will be very difficult, since what you want to do is a web based web browser. You might need to handle HTML, CSS and JS, etc.. But if it's just a web ui that render your data from your service that is fine. So back to your question, when you said the "browser gui", if it's a desktop application, you cannot run it on the cloud; if it's a website then yes you can and your proposal looks fine.
Hope my feedback helps.