Andrew, Greg L et al, now my broadband has returned to full speed I followed the instructions and have a static site up on Azure okay. It's clear now why my initial attempt yesterday morning went haywire ... I tried to create a solution and project to contain the static site. It turns out you "Open Web Site", which I never tried because it was counterintuitive to normal VS2015 usage. Then I wasn't sure what sort of Azure "publish target" to use, as the choice of "App *Service*" sounds inappropriate, but it's not!
I'm not sure how to use *plans*. Do I group similar sites and apps within the same *plan*? I haven't worked out a convention for their use yet. Every deploy I've tried produces the "Can't find existing loaded project" error, so the hint about opening the View > Other Windows > Web Publish Activity window and clicking the tiny button to continue was vitally important. I reckon it would have taken an hour to jump that hurdle that without help. So overall, it works easily (once you know the tricks) and I can see the static site nicely at http://*myname*.azurewebsites.net. All I have to figure out now it how to fiddle DNS and the like so that the world sees my com.au domain name pointing to this Azure web. *Greg K* On 28 January 2016 at 18:13, Andrew Coates (DX AUSTRALIA) < [email protected]> wrote: > > https://blogs.msdn.microsoft.com/acoat/2016/01/28/publish-a-static-web-site-using-azure-web-apps/ > > > > Cheers > > > > Andrew Coates, ME, MCPD, MCSD MCTS, Developer Evangelist, Microsoft, 1 > Epping Road, NORTH RYDE NSW 2113 > Ph: +61 (2) 9870 2719 • Mob +61 (416) 134 993 • Fax: +61 (2) 9870 2400 • > http://blogs.msdn.com/acoat > > > > *From:* [email protected] [mailto: > [email protected]] *On Behalf Of *Greg Keogh > *Sent:* Thursday, 28 January 2016 2:13 PM > *To:* ozDotNet <[email protected]> > *Subject:* Re: Azure static web sites > > > > I could do a quick walkthrough later today if that’d help. There aren’t > many options that need to be chosen. > > > > That'd be great if you have a break. Only the skeleton of the steps should > get me going. Once I get the files in the right sort of project and deploy > with suitable settings I should be able to extrapolate and find all the > configuration stuff about host headers and DNS and the like. I'll make a > blog post after I get it all working -- *Greg K* >
