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Reputation: 16831

How to redirect from an Azure sub-domain name?

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.

Upvotes: 0

Views: 804

Answers (1)

Tom Van Gramberen
Tom Van Gramberen

Reputation: 69

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/

Upvotes: 2

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