Hands-On Azure for Developers

Selecting different platforms

In the previous section, you learned how to choose a proper operating system for your application. This is, of course, not everything needed to run a website—you have to also enable a specific language if you want to deploy, for example, PHP code. To do so, go to your App Service (you have many options by which to do this: either choose App Services from the Azure Portal menu on the left and select your Web App, or go to the resource group you created by choosing it from Resource Groups blade) and then select the Application settings blade:

Initially, you could feel a bit overwhelmed by all those options available, ...