If you have tried to enable SSL for your Azure Web App you know that the steps to do that are:
- Purchase certificate and export it into a PFX file
- Upload PFX file to a resource group that contains your web app
- Bind the web app’s hostnames to the certificate
Out of those steps the step #1 is the most non-obvious. Just by looking through the instructions in this article you can see that the process is complex and error prone.
Recently the Azure team has released an improved support for buying certificates for Azure Web Apps. Now it is possible to purchase a certificate without ever leaving the Azure Portal UI experience. In this blog post I’ll show how easy it is to buy a certificate and enable SSL for a Web App. As an example I will walk through the process of buying a certificate and enabling SSL for my web site http://ruslany.net/
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