How to access a web app hosted using Azure Front Door with geo-filtering to USA outside the USA?
Hello, I am currently in the planning phase for a project, and I have a specific use case. I need to host a web app that should only be available to end users in the US region. However, support personnel who need access to the web app will be from other…
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Availability test does not catch when the website is down
Hello, I have created an availability test for my web app using “Application insights > Availability“. That is how I configured the test: I let the test run for a 30 minutes to get some data and than I stopeed my web app. My web app started to…
Issue while adding custom domain to azure front door standard tier
Hi All, Greetings!!! As a part of a POC while trying to add a custom domain to the Azure front door standard tier, I created a certificate in azure key vault with the subject as the intended custom domain ("CN= <custom domain>"). CNAME…
Confusion between WAF with Application Gateway and FrontDoor when securing custom Web Apps running on Azure VM published to the internet ?
Could you please let me know which Azure technology can be used to minimize the attack surface for safely publishing a Virtual Machine as a Web App on the internet? WAF with Application Gateway:…
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AFD Premium - Caching - stale-while-revalidate or similar capability
Hello! We're looking to configure our caching so that we're optimizing the end user experience and serve up fresh content frequently. Nice to have requirement: Closer to 99% traffic served from CDN cache, even when cache is has expired. When cache…
Azure Frontdoor stuck on domain validation
Hi, We have been struggling with Azure FD custom domain HTTPS validation for the last 24 hours. We added our production endpoint into Azure FD using afdverify CNAME prefix to avoid downtime. The process is now stuck. We tried removing the endpoint…
Azure App Service (WordPress): how to add/configure Classic Front Door
Hi, I am a beginner using Azure. Have set up an App Service WordPress site with custom domain. Need to set up and try out Classic Front Door (add it and configure it) to integrate with this already running WordPress App Service so that I can add access…
AFD Premium - 301 Redirect Trailing Slash to no Trailing Slash via Ruleset
Hello! We're looking to remove trailing slash via a ruleset in Azure Front Door Premium via a Ruleset. Looking at the documentation…
Need to be added to Front Door lowercase url rewrite Private Preview
There is a private preview for a feature in Azure Front Door as referenced here: https://video2.skills-academy.com/en-us/answers/questions/1405076/transform-full-url-to-lowercaseWe need to be added to this preview so that we can rewrite entire URLs as…
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I am setting up an application using kubernetes pod and creating and Internal Loadbalancer service. When I try to access the application using service I am not facing any issue but when I use front door I am facing intermittent 404 issue
I am setting up an application using kubernetes pod and creating and Internal Loadbalancer service. When I try to access the application using service I am not facing any issue but when I use front door with the Internal Load balancer Ip as endpoint with…
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Azure CDN CONFIG_NOCACHE
I have configured caching for one or the URL path with wild card which is accessing the Dynamic Images from my application, when I check from the browser I see CONFIG_NOCACHE in the network tab from inspect element. How do I cache the URL path, what…
Azure Front Door and Weak Cypher
In Azure Application Gateway we can disable weak cypher so how to disable weak cypher for Azure Front door we are a payment gateway merchant and this is essential to meet our qualys certification
Forwarding IPV4 instead of IPV6 in Azure Front Door
We recently implemented Azure Front Door and the X-Forwarded-For header gives the IPV6 instead of the IPV4. We are using Azure Front Door Standard, is there a way to make AFD forward IPV4 instead? We couldn't find any settings/configs related to this on…
Azure CDN endpoint usage
Hello, Is there a convenient way to export statistics from the Front Door and CDN profile (Standard Edgio)? I'm interested in seeing how much traffic each endpoint consumes (which we have to pay for). Today, I have to manually access…
Why is front door private link locked behind premium?
I have app containers, (internal), that i want some kind of load balacing in front. Azure front door is an excellent choice but having to pay 330 usd/month for the premium compared to the standard 35 usd/month just for the private link is insane in my…
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Azure front door support for private endpoint to AppGateway
Hi I understand Azure front door can connect App Gateway as an origin, However, it seems according to the reference below, AFD does not support private endpoint to AppGateway. If this is the case, is there any roadmap for this feature? Similarly, would…
Retirement Announcement - Azure Front Door (classic) will be retired on March 31, 2027
Azure Front Door (classic) will be retired on March 31, 2027. Below are timelines to keep in mind for retirement: April 1, 2025 - Last day to create new Front Door (classic) profiles. After this date, you will not be able to create new Front Door…
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Self Hosted API gateway communication with configuration endpoint in private mode
Hello Community I found this post https://video2.skills-academy.com/en-us/answers/questions/921919/azure-apim-self-hosted-gateway-new-stv2-configurat that is now a bit dated. I have a similar use case, with an Azure APIM that I would like to deploy in private…
403 response from App service after routing traffic from Azure Front Door
I am trying to set up a Front door for an app service. The goal here is allow traffic to the App service only from the Front door . But once I restrict the app service networking to allow access only from the Front door , I keep getting error 403 when…
how to abort migration of frontdoor from classic to premium tier
i was trying to migrate frontdoor from classic to premium tier, i have not completed the entire process, now i can see both the frontdoors ,old one and migrated one. I want to terminate or abort the process, could someone please let me know how to do…