Azure

When I decided to restart my blog a month ago, I wanted to move from Blogspot and use this opportunity to try some new technologies. Static website generators always looked like a very interesting technology and my blog seemed like an ideal candidate for the first try. There are many static website generators available, the most prominent ones are Jekyll, Hugo or Next. But my eye got caught by another one - Wyam. It has nice clear documentation, seems to be well maintained and it is written in C#, so when I need, I can dive into the source code without any problems.

In the previous post, I set up my blog to run on Azure Static Website. However, it was accessible only on the domain provided by Azure blogkabrtcz.z6.web.core.windows.net and I'd like to use my own domain blog.kabrt.cz.

It has been possible to host static files in Azure Storage for a long time, but there were some limitations. Probably the most important one - you weren't able to specify the default document for a directory. You could display a page with the URL https://blog.kabrt.cz/index.html, but URL https://blog.kabrt.cz would return the 404 page. There were ways around it (e.g. Azure Functions proxy), but it felt too cumbersome. With the introduction of Static Website in Azure Storage, this limitation is gone and I'd like to explore this feature and move my blog to Azure.