Hosting home page as static site on Azure Blob Storage

Question

I have a webapp which is currently serving on mydomain.com/homepage. It's a nodeJS based app. I want to only move the homepage part of it to be hosted on a static site on Azure blob storage and the the existing app to serve on app.mydomain.com.

So, the plan is to create a static site on Azure Storage and serve it through CDN on a custom domain. However, the Azure page suggests that root domains are not supported. Is there any way to make this work? https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/azure/storage/blobs/storage-custom-domain-name?tabs=azure-portal

Or is there a better way to make this kind of change?

Answer 1

As far as I know, you can map root domain to the Azure CDN profile. With this option, you deliver your content with a custom domain in your URL (https://mydomainexample.com) instead of an endpoint name (https://www.contoso.com/photo.png). Then it looks like mapping a root domain to the static website endpoint in the Azure Storage

To map a custom domain with HTTPS enabled, you could refer to the official document. Especially, add a root domain to the Azure CDN profile, you can point zone apex to Azure CDN endpoints by using Azure DNS alias records. If so, you can host your DNS domains in Azure DNS, you must delegate the domain provider's domain name system (DNS) to an Azure DNS. For more information, see Delegate a domain to Azure DNS.

Please note that Pointing a zone apex to CDN endpoints for Azure CDN from Akamai is currently not supported. You can select to use other Azure CDN price tier.