How to host a static website in Microsoft Azure
Hosting a website creates a problem sometimes for the customers. You want good plans, good connectivity, security, and secrecy.
Microsoft Azure is the best platform to host your website. It is reliable, flexible, secure, and very fast. Azure is a Microsoft cloud computing platform that not only offers to host the website but it gives dozens of services to the customer. From creating a chatbot for the website to the Internet of things and Artificial Intelligence (A.I).
We will see a demo on how to host a simple Calculator which has been made from HTML & CSS and also used Javascript for some functionality.
Download the website template here.
Let get started with our demo.
Step 1: First come to the Azure portal. Sign in with account or else if you don't have an azure account simply create it.
Step 2: In the left upside corner, you will three lines down to each other. Click on that and scroll down and find a storage account.
Step 3: There you will see no storage account created. In down, you will see create a storage account. Click on that to create a new storage account.
Step 4: Now choose your subscription. If there is no resource group created, create a new one. And give a name web-calculator.
Go down you will give a storage account name, name it as webcalculator. Rest leave as it is. Then click on Review + create. It will take a minute to complete all the processes.
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If you get this message, Your deployment is complete. Just click on Go to resource.
Step 6: You will be navigated to the dashboard where we have to upload or website. Just scroll down and find the static website. It is by default disabled, make it enabled.
Step 7: Now give the name or the URL of the first page which you want open, our’s is index.html. Also, give Error document path as 404.html. Then save it. After the saving, you will two URLs just copy the primary endpoint URL. We will use that URL after uploading the file in azure.
Step 8: Again scroll down and find containers. There you will see $web written something, just click on that.
There you will Upload button click on that and one by one start uploading the file:
- index.html
- stylesheet.css
- script.js
Note: The link has been provided above. Download it and then upload the file to azure.
Step 9: Now our task is over. We have done it with Azure. Now open the copied link in your browser.
This is a demo website a simple calculator website has been successfully got hosted in Microsoft Azure.
Hurray! you have successfully hosted your first website in Azure. Start creating a new website and start hosting it in Azure; its best, secure, and fast. You can host your resume, blog, or anything you want in Azure.
