Since a few years I have this idea of youcode.ch. I never invested a lot into this side project after buying some WordPress theme and paying for the domain. I like WordPress for simple websites, but I never got warm with it for more complex stuff.
Anyhow the website stopped working and appearantly WordPress is pretty resource hungry and the company where I host my stuff suggested to go for another offering, which of course is more expensive. 🙂
Therefore, I decided to give it another try and move youcode.ch over to Azure.
In essence I want to host a static web app (Angular, custom domain) and add some magic using Azure functions (which may connect to other services like storage to read/write some data).
So the first thing to do is: setup a static web app and configure the custom domain.
Create Static Web App
Best watch my YouTube video on this topic. I followed the same steps for youcode.ch.
- Create a new ng app
- Setup Azure Static Webapp in VSC
I amable to access my brand new web app, but the domain isnot yet what I want. So let’s configure a custom domain.
Custom Domain
I already own youcode.ch – or at least I pay for it. So let’s see how simple we can get this configured! To do this, we first need to go to the Azure portal and open the static web app resource. Clicking on the custom domains will show us all registered domains.
Hitting the “add” button will open up a sidebar. Where we are guided through the necessairy steps.
Let’s go for the TXT record type, as this will allow me to add the root domain youcode.ch (and not the subdomain www.youcode.ch). On my hosting provider it is pretty simple to add this record.
Every provider has its own ways to deal with DNS configuration. You can find a lot of useful information here:
Set up a custom domain in Azure Static Web Apps | Microsoft Docs
Now I have to wait a few hours, and I’m not sure it will work as expected as I haven’t seen a way to add ALIAS records at first sight. But let’s see!