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Point Your Custom Domain To The Workload In The Virtual Machine In Azure






What Is A DNS Server?






Picture showing the diagram that represents the role of DNS server while browsing the website
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  1. Your laptop browses the website http://gyansangrah.com
  2. The request goes to the internet
  3. Multiple DNS servers are searched to find the exact domain and the IP address
  4. Once the server is found, a connection is established between your laptop and the server
  5. Once the connection is established, the communication starts

How To Point Your Custom Domain To The Virtual Machine?




  1. Create a virtual machine
  2. Install IIS on the virtual machine
  3. Create the page index.htm on the path c:\inetpub\wwwroot


Picture showing the default page on the virtual machine once IIS server is installed on it
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Picture showing adding the DNS record in the web portal of your service provider
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Picture showing the accessing the default page of the virtual machine using the custom domain
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Posted By  -  Karan Gupta
 
Posted On  -  Saturday, May 8, 2021

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