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I have this working in an MVC project on IIS by adjusting the hosts file.

When running an Azure project, I can see some ports getting remapped, not sure what thats doing or how I can set up subdomains, is it also done in the hosts file?

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Working with subdomains is possible in Windows Azure. If you need to map these subdomains to different web applications, you'll need to map these in your service configuration (hostHeader attribute): 

<Binding name="Endpoint1" endpointName="Endpoint1" hostHeader="app.litware.com" />

When developing locally, you can do this using host headers like you described. If you want to deploy to production, you'll need to configure a CNAME on your domain.

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  • Hi Sandrino, thanks! The subdomains will all be for 1 application (identifying tenant accounts) To confirm I dont' touch the binding and only adjust the headers? I have this working on a non-azure app, so will just need to figure out the port issues etc..not sure if that is clashing, I assume I can run localhost on multiple ports? or create some kind of new dev domain? ....Will check out the links... – Mark Redman Apr 13 '12 at 12:04
  • If this is all for a single application, you won't need to add the hostHeader attribute. You can simply work with a CNAME or the c:\windows\system32\drivers\etc\hosts file. The "port issue" is only present when working with the emulator because the port is already in use (maybe the default website in IIS). – Sandrino Di Mattia Apr 13 '12 at 12:11
  • Stopped the Default Site and restarted IIS (and VS!) and runs fine. Thanks. – Mark Redman Apr 13 '12 at 12:57