Limit Azure staging application to selected IPs

Question

I'm testing an application in the staging slot within a given web role. I don't want the staging application to be accessible to the public and I was wondering if there was anything I could add to the .cscfg file to lock down the application to just a set of known IPs? I had a look around the portal but couldn't see any way to restrict IPs there.

Any thoughts on this?

Answer 1

You can enable the built in IIS IP and Domain Restrictions and then provide a list of IPs in your web.config (which sadly will mean a redeploy if you have to modify them). Here is a link to a blog post where someone did this: http://blog.liamcavanagh.com/2011/10/how-to-block-ip-addresses-in-windows-azure/

Answer 2

I never heard of it.

In your global.asax:

        protected void Session_Start()
        {
            if (Request.ServerVariables["REMOTE_ADDR"]!= "ÿour ip address here")
            {
                 Response.StatusCode = 404;
            }
        }