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Controlling the hostname with a WebApp when fronted by Application Gateway

I wanted to demystify the hostname that is used within an ASP.NET core application when the application is hosted in a WebApp and fronted by an Application Gateway. I have been getting a few questions about it and I believe it can help. It happens to many that when they configure such setup, and have redirects triggered within the application, they get presented with the application.azurewebsites.net hostname instead of the hostname by which they actually accessed the application. They then ask themselves: what happened? I accessed my application through application.mydomain.com. How come I am presented with the azurewebsites.net hostname? Let’s dissect 2 ways by which this can be mitigated and have, when the application triggers redirects within itself, the proper hostname that…

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November 5, 2020 | by Dominique St-Amand | 3 Comments
Azure

Path based routing in Azure Application Gateway with Azure WebApps

So it may occur to you that you may want to do path based routing so that you can reach multiple applications under 1 hostname. To represent this, I’ve drawn an example of what we are trying to accomplish In this post, I’ll show you how I can use the hostname dev.domstamand.com to respond to different backends when hit on 3 paths: /identity : redirects to the identity web app /authorization : redirects to the authorization web app / : redirects all other requests to the default web app As a side note, I’m using the v2 of the Application Gateway. Setup To understand better how all the components are layed out, I made a diagram. For the sake of…

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August 14, 2020 | by Dominique St-Amand | 1 Comment