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Windows Azure Web Sites - Configure virtual applications

Support for virtual applications was added in recent updates of Azure Web Sites. This is very useful when you have a website which need to expose different applications as a subfolders. For example:

  • / - root
  • /blog - blog platform application
  • /commerce - e-commerce

This makes transition to Azure websites very easy for this type of applications:.

To enable it navigate to configure website in azure management portal. Navigate to Configure website tab:

 

And then at the bottom of the page Virtual application section can be seen:

Hit save and the app is good to go.