Host Multiple Application In a Single Azure App Service

Arkadeep De

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Felix L3y ago
Hi Arkadeep, When I deploy two web applications to the same app service, only one appliation is working, the other one doesn't run. It says "Select a different application pool to create another application". Any suggestions? Thanks.
Roger Hopkins5y ago
I'm not able to connect to the subfolder in Filezilla. I'm able to connect to the remote site root directory (i.e. /site/wwwroot) but when I type in the subfolder path (i.e. /site/wwwroot/common) I get: Response: 550 The system cannot find the file specified. Error: Failed to retrieve directory listing
Aayush Shrestha5y ago
Can you configure connection strings for each website in this type of setup? I understand that you can have a web.config file at the root level of each site but I have secrets that are unique for each site and I don't want to store them in raw text so having a way to store sensitive connection strings / keys in azure would be ideal. Any ideas?
Bill Spang5y ago
Question and Recommendation: I have a Client that has two separate Teams developing Web and Mobile Apps. What is the best method to host all Apps in a single Azure Web Service?I was with the impression that I could create a Virtual Folder for each App to facilitate this. The apps are accessible while including the azurewebsites domain in the URL, but the Apps are not accessible without it. For example, I want to call https://mydomainname.com/virtualfoldername What am I not understanding? Many thanks for your assistance!
HARISH DARNE5y ago
Do we have to build the dist folder of interior and exterior with target URL as ""http://<your web app url>/<virtual directory name>"" ?
Jorge Nicolas Gonzalez5y ago
What happen if i want to set totaly diferent domine to each one? like www.app1.com and www.app2.com etc? can I do that?
- Arkadeep De5y ago
  In a web app, you can't, this is just separating the folders. But you can create the deployment slots which will provide you two different URLs.
Karl6y ago
Not working for me, with NodeJs on App Services (Azure - Windows or Linux) :(
- Arkadeep De6y ago
  I tried with the windows one. Not sure about the Linux server.
Moynul Biswas6y ago
Thanks , You done a good job
- Arkadeep De6y ago
  Thasnks buddy

Introduction

Sometimes it becomes necessary to run multiple applications in a single application server. In this post, we will show how to host multiple applications in a single Azure Web App.

How?

The folder structure of an Azure App service is like / (root) -> Site -> wwwroot. The actual application resides on the wwwroot folder and we publish on that folder.

The idea is to create new folders according to your requirement and make that an application like IIS. So, let’s say we have a car website and we have to show the interior and exterior of the car with two different applications.

Create two different folders in the wwwroot folder using Filezilla. We are using Filezilla here for the example, you can directly publish to the folder from Visual Studio publish profile.

Connect your web app and create two new folders named “exterior” & “interior”. After creating the folder structure it will be something like this.

Now go to your Azure portal (https://portal.azure.com). Go to the web app and search for “Configuration” in the left side search box of the web app. It will be under the “Settings” section.

Click on the “Configuration” and go to “Path mapping”.

In the path mapping blade, you will find the “Virtual application and directories” tab.

Add your folders over there and uncheck the “Directory” checkbox if you want to add this as an application, with your physical path.

Please note the physical path should start from the root folder.

After adding the applications, you will find those in the following table under “Virtual applications and directories”. Click on the “Save” button to save the application.

Now upload the content/application on the specific folders either via FileZilla or Visual Studio publishing profile.

And now it’s time for testing. Open the browser and type out the web app URL with the virtual pathname.

http://<your web app url>/<virtual directory name>

E.g.: https://abc.azurewebsites.net/exterior & http://abc.azurewebsites.net/interior

Now using this technique, you can host as many applications as you want.

Summary

In this article, we learned about hosting multiple applications in a single Azure App Service.