How can I setup a development environment to use subdomains in the Azure emulator like on localhost(IIS) using hosts file?

Question

I have this working in an MVC project on IIS by adjusting the hosts file.

When running an Azure project, I can see some ports getting remapped, not sure what thats doing or how I can set up subdomains, is it also done in the hosts file?

Answer 1

Working with subdomains is possible in Windows Azure. If you need to map these subdomains to different web applications, you'll need to map these in your service configuration (hostHeader attribute):

<Binding name="Endpoint1" endpointName="Endpoint1" hostHeader="app.litware.com" />

When developing locally, you can do this using host headers like you described. If you want to deploy to production, you'll need to configure a CNAME on your domain.

Resources

• http://www.wadewegner.com/2011/02/running-multiple-websites-in-a-windows-azure-web-role/
• http://blog.smarx.com/posts/custom-domain-names-in-windows-azure