Moving Umbraco Website to Azure

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I'm new to Umbraco. I'm tasked to move our website (which runs on Umbraco 7.4) to Azure.

I've decided to go with App Service for the site.

My question is what is the best approach to getting our current instance of Umbraco on Azure? The options I'm thinking of are:

Option 1
1. App:
a) Use Azure's marketplace and install Umbraco CMS
b) Copy the folders from Umbraco on our current server to Azure web app server folder

2. Database
a) Export databases from our current server and import to new Azure database

Option 2
1. App
a) Create Azure Web App
b) Same as Option 1 above, copy the folders from Umbraco on our current server to Azure web app server folder

2. Database Same as Option 1

Basically is at simple as just copying (download) the "Umbraco" folder from our current server to new Azure web app server?

Thanks

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1 Answers

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Copying the files (and the database, of course) should be fine, Umbraco doesn't "install" anything outside the website itself :-) Either way should work though.