Depending on the type of application you are building it may
be necessary for you to register a CName record with your Storage Account that
you created. There are many reasons that
you may want to perform this registration such as if you are building a
Silverlight/Flash Application that requires that all of your resources are
within the same domain.
Step
1: Create the Azure Storage Account
a)
Login to your Windows Azure Account
b)
Select your Azure Services
c)
Click on Create New Service
d)
Select Storage Account
Figure 1.0 - Create Storage Account
Figure 1.1 - Create Storage Account - Create the Service
Figure 1.2 - Create Storage Account - Name the Blob Storage
Account
Figure 1.3 - Create Storage Account - Storage Account
Summary
Step 2: Create the Custom Domain Name and Register the
CName Record
Note:
For this step to work you must have access to register CName records with
your domain. Usually this can be done by
simply logging in to your provider and updating the list.
a)
Click on the Manage Link to the Right of the
Custom Domain
b)
Enter your domain name and Click Generate Key
c)
Click on the Manage Link Next to your Custom
Domain and Click Validate
d)
Follow the instructions on the page on what to
enter in for the CName Records
Note:
If you receive a Dr. Watson Error then your CName Record mapping entered into
your Domain Provider is likely to be incorrect or not working.
Figure 2.0 - Create the Custom Domain
Figure 2.1 - Create the Custom Domain - Domain Association
Figure 2.2 - Create the Custom Domain - Mapping
Figure 2.3 - Create the Custom Domain - Validate the Domain
Association
Note:
If you receive a Dr. Watson Error then your CName Record mapping entered into
your Domain Provider is likely to be incorrect or not working.
Figure 2.3.1 - Create the Custom Domain - Validate the
Domain Association
Step 3: Verify Your Domain CName Record and Domain
Name Association
At this point all that is left to
do is to validate that your blob storage is properly associated to your CName
records.
Figure 3.0 - Validate Domain CName Record and Domain Name
Association
Hopefully this blog entry was helpful and useful to some as
using this technique can come in handy when developing applications that
integrate with Flash and Silverlight and need to access resources and/or assets
that are not in the same domain.