How To Host Your Web Apps On Azure Via FileZilla

In this article, I’m going to upload a website to the Microsoft Azure via FileZilla (FTP). FileZilla is a cross platform FTP application which is a totally free software. We’ll create a Web App then download and publisha profile of that Web App.

For creating a new Web App you must login into Azure.

Go to WEB APPS, and select “NEW” button at the bottom of the window.

new

Go to COMPUTE, WEB APP, QUICK CREATE.

Enter the name of your Web App.
Enter your subscription.
Select region/location of your Web App.
Click on to “CREATE WEB APP”.

Create

Wait for few seconds to complete processing, your WebApp is created and in running mode.

mode

After creating our Web App on Azure, you can start with Visual Studio, write some text in to HTML page and that text will show in browser. We’ll see how we can publish our website to Azure without Visual Studio.

So, create a simple application from Visual Studio and make some HTML text in to HTML page. Here's the screenshot,

application

So, now our Web App and HTML text are completed, go back to your Web App.

Click on to your Existing Web App and select “DASHBOARD” to download the publish profile of your Web App.

web app

In dashboard panel click on to “Download the Publish Profile”.

Download

Right click on the downloadable file and open it with Notepad to collect all the FTP information.

information

In the following screenshot, you will get publishUrl (which is your host name), username and user password.

publishUrl

Now you will need to download FileZilla software from its official website. For more you can see the following screenshot,

website

Accept the terms of license agreement by clicking on “I Agree”.

Agree

This will ask for administration of FileZilla whether you want for Anyone or only for you, so here I’m selecting all users, click on to next button.

button

Next step of setup is selecting components of FileZilla which you want to install, so mark all the components and click on the next button.

button

Select the path of installation, and click on the next button.

path

The following screenshot is asking for start menu and if you do not want to create a shortcut then check on "Do not create shortcut", and click on “Install” button.

Install

Your setup is being installed.

setup

Click on to finish button to complete the process of setup.

setup

In File menu select “Site Manager”.

Site Manager

Under the site manager click on “New Site”.

New Site

Give a name to your new site.

Under the General tab in the right side give the following values according to the following screenshot,

Host: Paste the hostname from publishUrl obtained from the published settings file above in Notepad.
Logon Type: Set this to Normal.
User: Paste the userName obtained from the publish settings file above in Notepad.
Password: Paste the userPWD obtained from the publish settings file above in Notepad.

Click on Connect to connect to the site over FTP.

You will see two folders under the root: Logfiles and Site.

folders