How do you get an existing domain you own to point to Azure's servers?

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Mike Marks picture Mike Marks · Jul 16, 2013 · Viewed 16.1k times · Source

By default, the naming conventions of Azure websites/webapps are somesubdomain.cloudapp.net and somesubdomain.azurewebsites.net. If I have an existing website that I have currently hosted through, say GoDaddy, and the website is www.mysite.com, how can I tell the registrar (DNS) to look at Azure's servers for the website content (I have experience in changing the nameservers to point to a particular web hosting company's nameservers, but it appears that there isn't a such thing with Azure).

Ultimately what I want to do is go to www.mysite.com and have the content hosted on Azure, running on Azure's VMs. Is the only way to mess with the CNAME, A, etc. properties of the DNS?

I have a VM on Azure that I want to use to host my websites. This is the platform that I will be using. I'm not using an Azure "website" or a "cloud service".

Answer

Fore picture Fore · Jul 16, 2013

Yes, the only way to get this working as you describe it is to fiddle with the DNS, with a CNAME and A records.

A good description of how this is done can be found here: http://www.windowsazure.com/en-us/develop/net/common-tasks/custom-dns/

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