TodayILearned - Running imageflow_server in Azure Web App

[jakenuts]

It might be a bit early, or a back-assward way to use imageflow_server, but I tried setting it up in an Azure Web App (Windows) using httpplatformhandler to launch & forward requests and it seemed to work quite well.

1.) Connect to the new web app with FTP and open the wwwroot folder 2.) Create a App_Data folder for the cache 3.) Copy this web.config & imageflow_server.exe (and possibly the dll) to wwwroot

<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?> <configuration> <system.webServer> <handlers> <remove name="httpplatformhandler" /> <add name="httpplatformhandler" path="*" verb="*" modules="httpPlatformHandler" resourceType="Unspecified" /> </handlers> <httpPlatform processPath="./imageflow_server.exe" arguments="start --bind-address 127.0.0.1 --port %HTTP_PLATFORM_PORT% --data-dir ./App_Data --mount &quot;/myblobs/:ir4_http:https:://myblobs.blob.core.windows.net/assets/&quot;" stdoutLogEnabled="true" stdoutLogFile="./imageflowiis.log" startupTimeLimit="20" requestTimeout="00:05:00"> </httpPlatform> </system.webServer> </configuration>

Cheers!

[JamoCA]

I'm using a locally hosted IIS server and haven't used httpplatformhandler before. )httpplatformhandler was an extra component that I had to download & install.) More info here: https://azure.microsoft.com/en-us/blog/announcing-the-release-of-the-httpplatformhandler-module-for-iis-8

Where's the best information regarding doing this? I'd like to be able to support multiple websites/mounts and not sure if I'm required to set up a unique hostname for each or not.

[JamoCA]

Have you attempted to use IIS to reverse proxy the imageflow server?

Here's a quick how-to article: https://blog.ligos.net/2016-11-14/Reverse-Proxy-With-IIS-And-Lets-Encrypt.html

[jessegavin]

@jakenuts I tried this out and it seems to work great! Thanks for sharing.