Web Apps
Web Apps in Azure App Service provides a scalable, reliable, and easy-to-use environment for hosting web applications. Select from a range of frameworks and templates to create a web site in seconds. Use any tool or OS to develop your site with .NET, PHP, Node.js, Python and more. Choose from a variety of source control options including TFS, GitHub, BitBucket and others to set up continuous integration and develop as a team.
More details about the services are available in the App Service documentation. If you have a technical issue, please open a post on the developer forums through Stack Overflow or MSDN.
Products that we listen to in this space include: App Service, Web Apps, API Apps and Web App for Containers.
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Use actual endpoint testing for custom domains rather than checking CNAME value
Our domain is “example-domain.com”. Let’s say I’m trying to set up an App Service called “booking-service”, which will be assigned the default URL of “booking-service.azurewebsites.net”. At the *end* of this whole process, I want to have an App Service in Azure responding to the hostname “booking-service.example-domain.com”, sitting behind our CDN (Cloudflare).
The failing path:
Step 1: I create the App Service in Azure. This generates the “booking-service.azurewebsites.net” URL.
Step 2: I create the CNAME “booking-service.example-domain.com” on Cloudflare’s control panel pointing to “booking-service.azurewebsites.net”, leaving the proxy/CDN/IP-hiding feature *enabled*. While in their control panel, we select the “CNAME” record type, however in…15 votes -
Portal support for installing an SSL certificate direct from Key Vault
In an ARM template I can install my SSL certificate direct from Key Vault, by adding a "Microsoft.Web/certificates" resource.
The Azure portal equivalent is to download the PFX from Key Vault to my computer, and upload it back to portal in the App Service SSL Binding blade. And lookup the password from wherever I saved it, and type it.
It would be more secure and more convenient if I could just enter the Key Vault and secret name on the SSL Bindings blade. I wouldn't even need access to the Key Vault myself. The ARM provider works because the "Microsoft…
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Please make App Service CORS work properly, or get rid of it all together.
CORS support in Azure App Service is currently terrible. It currently only supports origins and credentials. Where is the header support and where is the method support?
Also, why does it refuse to work for localhost? http://somesite.bla.com/works fine in App Service CORS settings, but if I add http://localhost or http://localhost:1234, App Service never responds with "Access-Control-Allow-Origin: ..." when I access it from a localhost (or localhost:1234) origin.
Additionally, if my service responds with a 401 error (bearer token needed or basic auth), App Service CORS seems to freak out and completely break - regardless of origin and settings.
Lastly,…
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Ability to pin deployment status on dashboard widgets (REGRESSED)
This was previously implemented on the original Deployments pane, but has now regressed with the new Deployment Center and you cannot see the progress of builds on the dashboard again.
Worse yet, the old functionality seems to have been deprecated, so new instances cannot be set up with the old build process.
Seeing build status at a glance is extremely important for micro-service architectures, where you may push to a single repo branch and have multiple services rebuild and spin themselves back up in reaction.
Here is the original request that got implemented: https://feedback.azure.com/forums/568069-azure-mobile-app/suggestions/37243549-show-deployment-status-for-web-apps
Screenshot showing example of web/API and…
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deployment
Create Signals for Activity Log that show events for successful or failed build/deployments from third party repositories
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Enable users to see their Linux web app temporary storage size
Problem :
According to the Azure Support team, App Logs and Docker operations (build, pull, run), and maybe other services, use a "temp space" that is mutualized between all the Web Apps of a App Service Plan.
This "temp space" is not documented and can block Docker operations, and thus prevent deployments.Solution :
- Expose the "temp space" available size for each plan
- Document how this "temp space" is used
- Expose a view allowing to monitor this "temp space" usage and set alerts, ...4 votes -
App Service Public SSL Certificates persist When Swapping Slot
Currently, if a Web App slot (ex: "staging") is created from an existing Web App that has Public SSL Certificates configured, these are not present on the new slot.
In addition during a slot swap, the "production" slot does not persist the Public SSL Certificates. The configuration for the Public SSL Certificate moves to the "staging" slot.
This behavior does not appear for other configurations such as Private SSL Certificates or AppSettings and could lead to "production" issues if the Public SSL Certificate is expected on the Web App.
The consumer recourse currently is to re-apply the Public SSL Certificates…
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Add Application Initialization Support for Scale Up/Down
The application initialization/warmup feature works great when scaling out/in, but when scaling up/down requests are immediately routed to the new instances before the application is warmed up. It would be great if the new instances could be warmed up before rerouting requests to them.
276 votesPlacing under review per Ruslan’s comments. We don’t have a timeline to share, but we will update the item once there is more information available.
Thanks,
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Hybrid Connections - Allow them to be designated to a slot and not swapped
Allow Hybrid Connections to be pinned to a specific slot like app settings and connections strings. Especially since connection strings and hybrid connections are typically codependent.
Hybrid connections are designed to retrieve data from on-premises sources. 99% of the time, you don't want to swap that. I don't want a swapped slot to start pulling data from somewhere else.
Say you have a Production and UAT slot. When I promote UAT into production, I still want the production slot to still use the production hybrid connection and the same for UAT.
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App Service Certificate
When you purchase APP Service certificate you also need to specify domain name. Can you change this Domain name later on.
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Deployment URL for App Services
The App Services has a URL, however if the Deployment URL is also shown then it would be handy for someone to just click, rather than copying the URL and then manually constructing the Deployment URL by putting "scm." in front of azurewebsites.net and also adding /ZipDeployUI at the end.
1 voteThanks for the valid suggestion. Your feedback is now open for the user community to upvote which allows us to effectively prioritize your request against our existing feature backlog and also gives us insight into the potential impact of implementing the suggested feature.
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Unable to create WebApp in Isolated plan with new create experience
In the classic web app creation experience, on selecting an isolated service plan for the new app, the domain name shown below the app name changes from azurewebsites.net to the domain name of the isolated plan.
This does not happen in the new create form. This means that you cannot enter an app name that has already been added to the azurewebsites.net domain.
1 voteThanks for the valid suggestion. Your feedback is now open for the user community to upvote which allows us to effectively prioritize your request against our existing feature backlog and also gives us insight into the potential impact of implementing the suggested feature.
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Add support for existing azure devops project for deployment center github repo
When you create a new deployment for a github repo from the deployment center on the third step you are only offered the chance to create a new project in azure devops and not the option to use an existing project. This is not practical at all and makes it useless for our repos hosted on github.
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After Zip Deploy, get: Getting: You do not have permission to view this directory or page
After Zip Deploy, get: Getting: You do not have permission to view this directory or page
(using https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/azure/app-service/app-service-web-get-started-nodejs )12 votes -
Add an option to also swap resource tags if desired
When swapping slots have an option to select which webapp resource tags to swap too.
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How to run custom deployment steps when deploying to App Service for Linux
Well I hope this is the write place to post this question.
I came from: https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/azure/app-service/containers/quickstart-nodejsI am trying to deploy a nodejs app to azure which has custom build steps.
I would like the deployment to run:
npm install
npm build
After it's deployedIt seems it only runs `npm install --production` and then tries to run the file listed in the `main` field of package.json. Although the source is in typescript so I would need to compile it first.
I saw here:
https://github.com/projectkudu/kudu/wiki/Custom-Deployment-ScriptThat you can add a `.deployment` file to call `deploy.cmd` file which will execute commands.
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implement a graceful restart an Azure Web App with multiple instance
We would like to have feature through which we can perform the configuration changes through portal without down time when there are multiple instances are available. The similar stuff is available in advanced restart where you can define the delay between restart of each instance.
43 votesHi everyone, we have some long-term plans to improve the restart speed and experience.
For this scenario we suggest creating a new slot, applying your changes there, validating they work, and swapping your changes. This pattern will avoid downtime on your production site.
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Idempotent swap slot operation to support swapping via ARM template deployments
This would simplify deployment governance (no need for an out-of-band swap operation when doing a deployment). Ideally the API would look something like:
PUT Microsoft.Web/sites/mysite/swapstate
{
"properties": {
"slot": "staging", // The slot to look at
"type": "oldest|newest" // Whether the oldest or newest bits between the "active" and the specified slot should be taken. This allows our operation to be idempotent and predictable.
}
}9 votes -
AppOffline support for all WebApps(including Java)
Currently ARM Template Deployment ( New-AzureRmResourceGroupDeployment ) won't put the site offline, and sometimes runs into FILE_IN_USE error and deployment failure.
MSDeploy supports 'AppOffline' but it is only for .net Apps.
https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/iis/publish/deploying-application-packages/taking-an-application-offline-before-publishingWe would like to have the same option for all WebApps (including Java).
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{
"name": "MSDeploy",
"type": "Extensions",
"apiVersion": "2014-01-01",
"dependsOn": [
"[concat('Microsoft.Web/Sites/', parameters('siteName'))]"
],
"properties": {
"packageUri": "[parameters('msdeployPackageUri')]",
"dbType": "None",
"connectionString": "",
"setParameters": {
},
"AppOffline": true
}
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Option to protect deployment slots from being indexed by search engines
Please provide the ability for Web App deployment slots to reply with a NOINDEX directive to search engines, either with response headers or a custom robots.txt file for the slots.
3 votes
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