{"id":532,"date":"2020-10-08T20:51:25","date_gmt":"2020-10-09T01:51:25","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/nukeitmike.com\/blog\/?p=506"},"modified":"2020-10-08T20:51:25","modified_gmt":"2020-10-09T01:51:25","slug":"twram","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.nukeitmike.com\/index.php\/2020\/10\/08\/twram\/","title":{"rendered":"TWRAM"},"content":{"rendered":"

I currently own 3 domains, one of which you are visiting now.  Another domain I own is much less useful, and really was the result of a joke.<\/p>\n

I have until now hosted it on a Windows Server, and wanted to move it to Azure.  It isn\u2019t a very complicated as it is just a single page.  I had help building it many years ago, and the key element on the page was a (yuck) Flash image.  <\/p>\n

So I started out the afternoon with the desire to move it to Azure, into a storage account, and serve it up as static web content.  Easy.  No problem.  Except\u2026<\/p>\n

The original home doesn\u2019t have https.  Why would it?  It is around 15 years old and has a single static page.<\/p>\n

It also has a Flash swf as the primary element.  Well, that isn\u2019t good.<\/p>\n

I also don\u2019t like to do things the easy way, because I like to take easy things and  use them to understand more complicated concepts.<\/p>\n

So\u2026 here goes:<\/h4>\n

First to fix the page, so that it isn\u2019t using flash.  I could just put a static image, but in this case, that just feels wrong.  So in a \u2018flash\u2019 of brilliance, I asked my friend which tool he uses\/recommends for creating gif files.  He said he uses \u2018gifcam\u2019 and then since I asked him he went and found another one in just a few minutes.  He now uses (and I used) \u2018screentogif\u2019.  You can find it with a quick search.<\/p>\n

So I used screentogif to record the swf and then save it as a gif.  (Link to the results at the bottom).  One problem down, two (at least) to go.<\/p>\n

Next I went through this tutorial<\/a> (sort of) to figure out how to configure Blob Storage to host static web content.  <\/p>\n

So I created the storage account, enabled Static website, and set the default document name.  I already had content, so I didn\u2019t need the ‘hello world\u2019 part.  I was going to work on integrating this deployment into a CI\/CD pipeline, but bailed on it because I found a link on the page that needed to be updated (it wasn\u2019t safe for work, though it had been originally).  I needed to get this deployed and replace the current site.<\/p>\n

Using VS Code to deploy works very well per the tutorial.  I will work on the CI\/CD part for one of the other sites I need to move.<\/p>\n

Next problem, repointing my DNS.  Easy, just follow the next tutorial<\/a>.  Which is where I hit the problem with HTTPS vs HTTP.  I could easily just not require a secure connection and get it to work, but I want to move my stuff to HTTPS because it is good practice.<\/p>\n

But to do that you have to enable Azure CDN for your blob or web endpoint.  So on to the next article.<\/a>  At least Microsoft is getting better with their documentation, and this part is pretty straight forward.  Once you follow a couple of steps, you get your content served up via CDN over HTTPS.  <\/p>\n

Next, we need to add the custom domain to the CDN endpoint.  That article is here.<\/a>  In the article, it talks about how to do a temporary mapping to avoid down time.  None of my sites are critical.  Downtime isn\u2019t an issue, so I skipped that part.<\/p>\n

Once I swapped over to the CDN location, the site was available via HTTPS, but there was a certificate error.  to fix this, click on the CDN Custom Domain, and turn on the custom domain HTTPS<\/a>.  It is evidently free and managed by Azure.<\/p>\n

\"image\"<\/a><\/p>\n

That process takes a few minutes and you should have your CNAME in place before you kick it off, so that you don\u2019t have to wait for an email to authorize it.<\/p>\n

I know that this has been a long post, and if I wasn\u2019t lazy, I would break it up into multiple posts, with more pictures.  But, I am lazy, so this is what you get.<\/p>\n

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