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

In this article, we will point your custom domain to the workload in the virtual machine.

What Is A DNS Server?

A DNS server contains the record book that stores the mapping of domain name and IP address of the machine that is hosting the site.

When the website is browsed, following actions occur.

Picture showing the diagram that represents the role of DNS server while browsing the website

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Your laptop browses the website http://gyansangrah.com
The request goes to the internet.
Multiple DNS servers are searched to find the exact domain and the IP address.
Once the server is found, a connection is established between your laptop and the server.
Once the connection is established, the communication starts.

How To Point Your Custom Domain To The Virtual Machine?

Before we point the custom domain to the virtual machine, we will perform the following steps.

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

Here is the web page.

Picture showing the default page on the virtual machine once IIS server is installed on it

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Now, go to the internet service provider and add the following record in the DNS section.

Picture showing adding the DNS record in the web portal of your service provider

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After some time, you can see your custom domain pointing to the virtual machine.

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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