In the last chapter, we explained how to create an Azure account.

In this chapter,
you will
find step by step explanation of each component:
Step 1: First, login in to your Azure account.
Step 2: Click ‘New’ at the left bottom corner and drag your cursor to ‘Compute‘.
Now you will see a list of models under Compute Model as shown in the following
image.
Create a Web App
Step 1: Click Web App.
Step 2: Click Quick Create and enter the URL and choose a service plan from the
dropdown
list as shown in the following image.
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When you go back to the main screen, it will show the website just created. And
when you
click the website URL, it will take you to the website.
The following image shows how your website will look when you click the
URL.Microsoft Azure
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Similarly, you can choose ‘From Gallery’ when creating a web app instead of ‘Quick
Create’.
This will let you choose the development framework in which you want to create your
app.
Windows Azure supports .Net, Java, PHP, Python, Node.js and Ruby. There are several

ways of publishing the code to Azure server. It can be published using FTP, FTPs,
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Web Deploy technology. Various source control tools such as GitHub, Dropbox and
Codeplex can also be used to publish the code. It provides a very interactive
interface to
keep track of changes that have been published already and also unpublished
changes.
Create a Virtual Machine
Step 1: Click on ‘Virtual Machine’ from the list.
Step 2: Then click ‘From Gallery’.
Step 3: Choose the Operating System or Program you want to run.Microsoft Azure
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Step 4: Choose the configuration and fill in the details.
The Username and Password you set up here will be needed to access the virtual
machine
every time.
On the next two screens you can leave the default values on for the first
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