azure virtual machine subdomain

Question

I have a virtual machine on azure that I want to host a site on that is a sub-domain (mysite.contoso.com) of my main/root site (www.contoso.com). My main site is hosted on Arvixe and works just fine. GoDaddy is my registrar.

I have setup the site on the VM and tested it locally. It works perfectly. I have added a CNAME record on GoDaddy that points my subdomain (mysite) to my VM (myVM.cloudapp.net). I have added an endpoint to azure for my VM to accept requests on port 80.

When I ping my subdomain, I get the IP Address of my root site and I get "Web Page Unavailable" when I attempt to browse to it. For testing purposes I added a host file entry for my subdomain that points to the VM external IP and everything works perfectly. Once I remove the host file entry, it fails again.

What am I missing here? It appears that the site and endpoint for the VM is setup correctly.

Thanks in advance for your help on this.

Answer 1

Turns out that my domain was never successfully transferred to Arvixe. I completed the domain transfer, added the CNAME record through Arvixe, and now my site works perfectly.