Azure DNS / HTTPS and FastHosts email

How to configure a domain name, https and email for your Azure web app

I tried (oh how i tried) to use a LetsEncrypt HTTPS certificate for my Azure-hosted web site by following Troy Hunt’s blog post

(all right, I gave it an hour…)

Then I looked more closely at the Azure portal and it turns out you can buy your domain and HTTPS certificate from there. It originally comes from GoDaddy and my legstat.org.uk domain plus certificate cost £50 ish (and a lot of clicking around).

How to buy a Top Level Domain from Microsoft Azure?

You have to go to Basic (more expensive) hosting to support https. On the plus side, now I can run my new site thru asafaweb without feeling bad…

And I also get an “Advanced DNS” page.

Now I want to send email from legstat.org.uk so I signed up for a fasthosts email account (£3/month).

To use this I have to “prove ownership”. This means 2 things

* Add some MX records
* Add a TXT record

I had a bit of trouble with the advanced DNS settings, but what they finally looked like was..