Multiple sites within one Azure WebRole

Question

Goal:This is all about paying for one WebRole instance but demoing/testing multiple sites what are completely independent VS projects (ASP MVC 5, but this must not matter). Sites are differentiated not by port number instead domain (host) name)

Maybe I want too much, but this can be easily done using IIS by configuring IIS sites by host name (or IP, or port).

I understand (and can accept) that restriction, that these different VS projects must exist together in a VS solution, and can not deployed independently, I suppose a common Azure project exist which contains all configuration metainfo.

Tools: VS 2013 (Premium) and Azure tools 2.2

Now I have a solution with 2 projects in it: MySite (an ASP MVC 5 project) MySite.Azure

I would like to add a 2nd MVC project, and would like to modify config and other files in MySite.Azure to deploy both MySite and MySite2 and I would like to assign different hostname s to MySite and MySite2. (I do know how to assign my hostnames to my Azure IP using my DNS provider, please suppose that's already done)

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If differentiating by host name is not possible, still is it possible to differentiate by port number?

Answer 1

Just to start from the top

You don't need all projects in a single solution but it does make it easier, so I will assume you will at this stage.

Add in your second project to your solution.

On your Azure project (MySite.Azure), on the Roles folder, Right Click and press Add > Web Role Project In Solution and add in the other project to your Azure project.

Next in your ServiceDefinition.csdef in the section

<Site>
   <Site name="Site1" physicalDirectory="C:\Users\User\Documents\Visual Studio 2012\Projects\Project1">
    <Bindings>
      <Binding name="Endpoint1" endpointName="Endpoint1" hostHeader="domain1.com" />
      <Binding name="Endpoint2" endpointName="Endpoint2" hostHeader="domain1.com" />
    </Bindings>
  </Site>
  <Site name="Site2" physicalDirectory="C:\Users\User\Documents\Visual Studio 2012\Projects\Project2">
    <Bindings>
      <Binding name="Endpoint1" endpointName="Endpoint1" hostHeader="domain2.com" />
      <Binding name="Endpoint2" endpointName="Endpoint2" hostHeader="domain2.com" />
    </Bindings>
  </Site>
</Sites>
<Endpoints>
  <InputEndpoint name="Endpoint1" protocol="http" port="80" />
  <InputEndpoint name="Endpoint2" protocol="https" port="443" certificate="SSLName" />
</Endpoints>

This shows 2 endpoints as well for SSL usage.