What is an Azure Web App?

Azure Web App is used to host websites and web applications. Using Azure Web Apps, we can quickly createa new site from the Azure gallery and also it provided templates from popular web site Content ManagementSystem (CMS) like WordPress, Orchard, Drupal, Umbraco and DNN.

Azure Web App supports open source frameworks like .NET, Java, PHP, Node.js and Phyton. Azure WebApps makes it easy to choose from various database backends to meet your needs for use with your apps. Itincludes support for many backend databases, including Microsoft SQL, MySQL, DocumentDB, Search,MongoDB, Redis, and Azure Table Storage. You can also use a SQL or MySQL database to test your apps atno cost.

How to create an Empty Azure Web App?

Microsoft Azure Web Apps allows us to create a powerful new website in seconds. In this Azure tutorial, weare going to learn about how to create an empty Azure Web App. Login to Azure portal using your loginusername and password.

To create Azure Web App, Navigate to+New | Web + mobile | Web App as shown below.

When we click on Web App as shown above, a pop up will be opened where user must enter App name,Subscription, Resource group, Operating System and App service plan.

How to create an Azure Web App ? Deploying Empty Web App

Enter the name for your web app and the App name will be the URL for your website. The URL must be unique, where

azurewebsites.net is appended to it as shown above.

Selecting Subscription plan

Select your Subscription pricing options. In this example, we selected Free trail.

Select Operating System (OS).

Now select an existing resource group or create a new one. To create new resource group, select Create new.

Now a new Resource group will be created with Web App name “Tutorialkart”.

Selecting App Service Plan.

Now we are going to create new App Service plan as “Winstandard”.

Now we have to select app service plan / location for our app. It is recommended that we have to set close tothe part of the world from which we expect most of your web traffic to emanate.

Enter App Service plan as WinStandard.

Select Location.

Choose your pricing tier as shown below.

As shown above, we have selected App Service plan as F1 Free plans. Click on Select button.

After completing all the settings, click create button.

Now we see our app is deploying and in few second we will get a notification that our web app is createdsuccessfully. Open web app in Azure portal as shown below.

When an Azure Web App is opened, we can see the app’s settings and perform traffic monitoring. We canview a lot of useful information about the app’s availability and performance by scrolling through the rest of theweb app page and clicking sections.

Conclusion

In this Microsoft Azure tutorial, we have learned What is Web App and created an empty Azure Web App. Inour next tutorial, we will learn about creating Microsoft Azure Web App from market place.

Microsoft Azure Tutorials

⊩ What is Microsoft Azure

⊩ Microsoft Azure -Web App Services

⊩ Microsoft Azure - creating empty web app

⊩ Microsoft Azure - Creating wordpress website

⊩ Microsoft Azure - Virtual Machines Overview

⊩ Microsoft Azure - Storage account

⊩ Microsoft Azure - Blob Storage

⊩ Microsoft Azure - Table Storage

⊩ Microsoft Azure - File Storage

⊩ Microsoft Azure - Content Delivery Network (CDN)

⊩ Microsoft Azure - Purge an Azure CDN endpoint