Azure Front Door
An Azure service that provides a cloud content delivery network with threat protection.
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Front Door Rules Engine variables
I have a routing rule that forwards a path to a root site with URL rewrite. www.site.com/site1/path -> backend.site.com/path www.site.com/site2/path -> backend.site.com/path At the backend I need to know the original path. I'm trying to use…
asked 2020-10-20T12:31:47.547+00:00
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Hallvard Korsgaard
21
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answered 2020-12-09T19:11:23.397+00:00
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Leigh Dastey
1
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Azure Front Door is not detecting my application gateway
Hi, i am trying to configure my Frontdoor with application gateway as my backend. however when i select the backed type as application gateway, none of my existing gateways are detectable. is there any routing that i need to do?
asked 2020-06-30T17:48:52.387+00:00
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Sanjay Ramadugu
1
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commented 2020-12-04T10:19:56.993+00:00
suvasara-MSFT
10,026
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1 answer
Fearture differences of WAF in CDN, Frontdoor and Application gateway
I cannot find a good feature comparison between the WAF's that can be set up in Application Gateway (v1 and v2 AND its different states - 1, 2 and 3), Frontdoor and CDN. Features like, rate limiting, bot detection, geo blocking, etc. Also if I…
asked 2020-10-28T08:26:04.587+00:00
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Owin Gruters - iO
46
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commented 2020-12-04T09:29:26.357+00:00
suvasara-MSFT
10,026
Reputation points
1 answer
Securing Single Web App.
I currently have a single Web App and Durable Functions, 2 VMs and 1 Azure SQL Database and 1 Cosmos DB. I wanted to know what is the best approach to secure the Web App. I have read WAF, or WAF with Application Gateway or Front Door. I would need…
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Azure Front Door Caching - etag
Hello Q&A, How do I ensure that the Front Door is using the headers for validation, like ETag and Last-Modified? The response header I get via the back-end URL seems get, using the etag, but when the one I get from the AFD does not...
asked 2020-11-16T09:34:58.277+00:00
Nibbler
616
Reputation points
commented 2020-11-19T13:40:24.417+00:00
GitaraniSharma-MSFT
49,006
Reputation points Microsoft Employee
0 answers
Front Door - Remove part of a URL path
Hi Q&A, I can one remove part of a path from an incoming URL, exsample "www.test.com/test/content/" > "www.test.com/content/" I have tried the Rule Engine, but without look.
1 answer
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Azure Front Door - Rename it
Hi Q&A, Is it possible to rename the Front Door from its initial name to another? Could this be done with Powershell?
2 answers
Front Door Caching - See performance gain
Hi Q&A, How can I check if content is getting served by the Azure Front Caching/Build-in CDN. I'm not seeing anything changed in the URL's ( like xxxx.cdn.xxx. Like one would if using CloudFlare CDN etc. I dont really find any detailed…
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Azure front door in a hub and spoke architecture
Hi, I am currently exploring using Azure Front door as a way of providing HA/DR for some web apps, we currently have a hub and spoke configuration and I am not sure of the best way to configure this. a) I configure one front door resource within the…
asked 2020-10-30T13:28:17.833+00:00
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Dan
176
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commented 2020-11-03T17:59:58.993+00:00
TravisCragg-MSFT
5,681
Reputation points Microsoft Employee
1 answer
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Move Azure Front Door to new/other Resource Group
Hi Q&A How can I move my Azure Front Door from one Resource Group to another. If not via the Portal, then via Powershell etc. If not possible, to move the Front Door, way is that?
1 answer
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Websocket support for front door.
Does azure front door support websocket? we are unable to find documentation online.
asked 2020-10-30T20:49:45.043+00:00
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oliver-jazz
56
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accepted 2020-10-30T21:07:46.743+00:00
oliver-jazz
56
Reputation points
2 answers
WAF policy to allow microsoft ips
Hi I am using Forntdoot WAF and want to allow apps on other VNet on Azure to be able to talk through my frontdoor. Write now i have allow on certain ip and block if not the certain ips. where can i get the ips used Microsoft so i can allow them all? …
asked 2020-10-23T17:00:19.77+00:00
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Chethan Ravula
1
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answered 2020-10-26T13:27:54.437+00:00
Chethan Ravula
1
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2 answers
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Front Door // Rule Engine - Transform to lowercase (bug)
Hi Microsoft Q&A I want to ensure that the URL path is always in lowercase. This is possible by using the “transform to” in the Rule Engine, but it only works if all the letters in the path is uppercase, and no trailing dash. A few examples…
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Azure Front Door - Feature Suggestion for the Rule Engine (Copy/Clone rules)
Hi MS Q&A It would be great if one could copy/clone rules to the same Rule Engine Group, as well as to another Groups.
1 answer
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Front Door - From Uppcase to Lowercase
Hi Forum, I`m trying to rewrite a URL path, from UPPERCASE > lowercase, using the Azure Front Door Rule Engine, but without success and can’t figure out the missing link to get it to work. Example: www.test.com/TeST/ > www.test.com/test/…
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Azure Front door deleted accidentally
Deleted front door accidentally but the certificate it was managing is not deleted how to recreate it?
asked 2020-08-11T16:04:16.027+00:00
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Apurv Mishra
1
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commented 2020-09-08T10:12:58.627+00:00
suvasara-MSFT
10,026
Reputation points
1 answer
Increase origin first response read-timeout length
Hi! I have a Ajax request take 40 seconds to respond. But, the Azure - Microsoft CDN cut the request in 30 seconds. In Azure Front Door I can change it from 30 to 240 seconds. How I can change it in Azure CDN? (Microsoft). Thanks a lot.
asked 2020-08-25T13:01:43.537+00:00
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thehunter
21
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commented 2020-08-26T03:46:38.203+00:00
suvasara-MSFT
10,026
Reputation points
2 answers
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Restrict Azure Functions access to Front Door
Hi everyone, I would like to protect my Azure Functions against DDOS attacks. For this purpose I set up a Front Door and successfully connected it to my Azure Functions. Now I would like to restrict access to the Functions to just the front door. I…
asked 2020-06-16T18:57:56.563+00:00
Pascal Kesseli
21
Reputation points
answered 2020-07-19T09:44:53.793+00:00
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Mahesh Panchal
11
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1 answer
How to utilize Azure Front door for Web, Mobile and Kiosk
I have configured the Front door earlier for a Web application and it worked fine. Basically, All requests to my SPA application is routed through front door. And SPA then calls APIs through Azure API Management gateway. Now I have a Mobile…
asked 2020-06-16T03:35:22.113+00:00
Mathew James
356
Reputation points
commented 2020-06-16T07:17:58.907+00:00
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Malleswara Reddy, G
1,631
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2 answers
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Front door Global Web Application Firewall
Hi, I have few questions regarding Azure WAF. I am planning to enable Global WAF on Azure Frontdoor, I know that it is managed service but still wants additional below things to increase SLAs. Please guide me how to enable below though they appear bit…
asked 2020-06-04T15:58:19.143+00:00
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Ashu_clouddev
101
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accepted 2020-06-11T10:42:52.233+00:00
Ashu_clouddev
101
Reputation points