Web App Custom Domain - "A" Record problem

Question

Hello all,

I have purchased a domain through Google Domains and I have added a CNAME Record and A record pointing to the specific locations requested by my Web App > Custom Domains tab/menu.

My Google Domains records:

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Name - Type - TTL - Data

@ - A - 1h - <AzureAppIPAdress>

www - CNAME - 1h - <appname>.azurewebsites.net

I am able to successfully browse to my site via "www.<appname>.com" but when I browse via "<appname>.com" or "<AzureAppIPAdress>" in my browser, I get a Error 404 - Web app not found. Has anyone dealt with this issue or have any recommendations to get this to work?

Azure complains when I try to validate <appname>.com in Custom domains module:

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Domain ownership

No TXT records were found. Please create a TXT record pointing from <appname>.com to <appname>.azurewebsites.net

Answer 1

As the output indicates no TXT records exist for localfoodconnect.com. Please follow the steps here: https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/azure/app-service-web/app-service-web-tutorial-custom-domain#map-an-a-record

Just as an FYI:

When validating Hostnames App Services require that A records pointing to the IP address also have TXT pointing to the <AppService>.azurewebsites.net domain. In your scenario that would be equivalent of [TXT][@][localfoodconnect.azurewebsites.net]

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Matt Nielson

Answer 2

Thanks MattN_, I honestly don't know how I kept missing that. I re-read that article a couple times.