Is it possible to deploy multiple web applications to a single Linux Web app??

Question

Hi All,

We have a scenario where the my two applications -
app1 requires three war files to be deployed to run on the web app.
app2 requires a single war file to run.

When I deployed app1 with 3 war files onto the web app, it created three folders for 3 war files in the wwwroot/webapps/ directory.

Now the folder structure will be:

wwwroot/webapps/folder1
wwwroot/webapps/folder2
wwwroot/webapps/folder3

and now I want to deploy the app2 war file onto the same web app but it should not create another folder in the above directory.

As I am using Linux web app, path mapping of virtual application option is not available.

there is any other way to do this?? by avoiding the additional folder creation?

Answer 1

not sure is it possible without creation of additional folder. If go with additional folder - you may try to create app-level folders:
wwwroot/webapps/app1
wwwroot/webapps/app2
and put content under them. But in this case urls of your web apps will be changed from http://example.com to http://example.com/app1 and http://example.com/app2. If you need own domain names for both apps it may be fixed by url rewrite (http://example.com/app1 -> http://example1.com, http://example.com/app2 -> http://example2.com) e.g. like described here: http Redirect an azure web application.

Answer 2

@Surya maroju This scenario came up two weeks ago in our meeting with the web apps product group. Their response was that running multiple sites in a single web app was not officially supported. As @sadomovalex pointed out, there might be unofficial methods to achieve this but as with anything unofficial, you run the risk of it breaking in future updates as it's not a scenario that will be validated during testing.

You can run multiple web apps in a single app service plan at no additional costs., which was the recommended approach by the product group.