Using a self-signed certificate with an Azure Application Gateway and App Service with end-to-end TLS encryption
You can use a self-signed certificate from your very own certificate authority, for deploying your application gateways and app services, with end-to-end TLS encryption. This approach should only be used for development environments, and not in a production environment. This approach is handy because it will [...]
Azure App Service, Azure Ad Authentication, Application Gateway and Path Based Routing
I recently had a requirement, to set up numerous Azure App Services, each in their own app service plan. They were all using a shared custom domain name and one common SSL certificate. Some of the app services had to allow anonymous access, while others had [...]
Nested .NET Core App settings in an ARM template
I was not able to find a post that succinctly demonstrated this, so I wanted to share my solution here. I was trying to deploy a .NET Core web application with some app settings inside an ARM template. The app settings are contained as an object [...]
Easily test your .NET Core Web API methods with Swagger UI
I'm starting to think that Swashbuckle and Swagger UI should be mandatory on all Web API applications going forward. I love this framework so much right now, so I wanted to make a very brief blog post about it. It's saved me so much time and [...]
WordPress Pages and Posts Not Updating?
I recently had a new client contact me about an issue with their existing WordPress site. Any changes they made to their pages or posts would not save. WordPress would notify them that everything was updated, but nothing actually happened, no errors logged, no error messages [...]
DNS resolution errors with DNSSEC domains
I recently had a client transfer their DNSSEC enabled domain to another registrar. Everything appeared to transfer as expected, but they noticed several global users having DNS resolution issues. This was strange because: The domain appeared to resolve fine for 90% of the world, using DNS [...]