title: Create an application gateway with multiple site hosting - Azure PowerShell | Microsoft Docs description: Learn how to create an application gateway that hosts multiple sites using Azure Powershell. services: application-gateway author: vhorne manager: jpconnock editor: tysonn
ms.service: application-gateway ms.devlang: na ms.topic: article ms.tgt_pltfrm: na ms.workload: infrastructure-services ms.date: 01/26/2018 ms.author: victorh
You can use Azure Powershell to configure hosting of multiple web sites when you create an application gateway. In this tutorial, you create backend pools using virtual machines scale sets. You then configure listeners and rules based on domains that you own to make sure web traffic arrives at the appropriate servers in the pools. This tutorial assumes that you own multiple domains and uses examples of www.contoso.com and www.fabrikam.com.
In this article, you learn how to:
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- Set up the network
- Create an application gateway
- Create listeners and routing rules
- Create virtual machine scale sets with the backend pools
- Create a CNAME record in your domain
If you don't have an Azure subscription, create a free account before you begin.
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If you choose to install and use the PowerShell locally, this tutorial requires the Azure PowerShell module version 3.6 or later. To find the version, run Get-Module -ListAvailable AzureRM
. If you need to upgrade, see Install Azure PowerShell module. If you are running PowerShell locally, you also need to run Connect-AzureRmAccount
to create a connection with Azure.
A resource group is a logical container into which Azure resources are deployed and managed. Create an Azure resource group using New-AzureRmResourceGroup.
New-AzureRmResourceGroup -Name myResourceGroupAG -Location eastus
Configure the subnets named myBackendSubnet and myAGSubnet using New-AzureRmVirtualNetworkSubnetConfig. Create the virtual network named myVNet using New-AzureRmVirtualNetwork with the subnet configurations. And finally, create the public IP address named myAGPublicIPAddress using New-AzureRmPublicIpAddress. These resources are used to provide network connectivity to the application gateway and its associated resources.
$backendSubnetConfig = New-AzureRmVirtualNetworkSubnetConfig `
-Name myBackendSubnet `
-AddressPrefix 10.0.1.0/24
$agSubnetConfig = New-AzureRmVirtualNetworkSubnetConfig `
-Name myAGSubnet `
-AddressPrefix 10.0.2.0/24
$vnet = New-AzureRmVirtualNetwork `
-ResourceGroupName myResourceGroupAG `
-Location eastus `
-Name myVNet `
-AddressPrefix 10.0.0.0/16 `
-Subnet $backendSubnetConfig, $agSubnetConfig
$pip = New-AzureRmPublicIpAddress `
-ResourceGroupName myResourceGroupAG `
-Location eastus `
-Name myAGPublicIPAddress `
-AllocationMethod Dynamic
Associate myAGSubnet that you previously created to the application gateway using New-AzureRmApplicationGatewayIPConfiguration. Assign myAGPublicIPAddress to the application gateway using New-AzureRmApplicationGatewayFrontendIPConfig.
$vnet = Get-AzureRmVirtualNetwork `
-ResourceGroupName myResourceGroupAG `
-Name myVNet
$subnet=$vnet.Subnets[0]
$gipconfig = New-AzureRmApplicationGatewayIPConfiguration `
-Name myAGIPConfig `
-Subnet $subnet
$fipconfig = New-AzureRmApplicationGatewayFrontendIPConfig `
-Name myAGFrontendIPConfig `
-PublicIPAddress $pip
$frontendport = New-AzureRmApplicationGatewayFrontendPort `
-Name myFrontendPort `
-Port 80
Create backend pools named contosoPool and fabrikamPool for the application gateway using New-AzureRmApplicationGatewayBackendAddressPool. Configure the settings for the pool using New-AzureRmApplicationGatewayBackendHttpSettings.
$contosoPool = New-AzureRmApplicationGatewayBackendAddressPool `
-Name contosoPool
$fabrikamPool = New-AzureRmApplicationGatewayBackendAddressPool `
-Name fabrikamPool
$poolSettings = New-AzureRmApplicationGatewayBackendHttpSettings `
-Name myPoolSettings `
-Port 80 `
-Protocol Http `
-CookieBasedAffinity Enabled `
-RequestTimeout 120
A listener is required to enable the application gateway to route traffic appropriately to the backend pools. In this tutorial, you create listeners for each of your two domains. In this example, listeners are created for the domains of www.contoso.com and www.fabrikam.com.
Create the listeners named contosoListener and fabrikamListener using New-AzureRmApplicationGatewayHttpListener with the frontend configuration and frontend port that you previously created. Rules are required for the listeners to know which backend pool to use for incoming traffic. Create basic rules named contosoRule and fabrikamRule using New-AzureRmApplicationGatewayRequestRoutingRule.
$contosolistener = New-AzureRmApplicationGatewayHttpListener `
-Name contosoListener `
-Protocol Http `
-FrontendIPConfiguration $fipconfig `
-FrontendPort $frontendport `
-HostName "www.contoso.com"
$fabrikamlistener = New-AzureRmApplicationGatewayHttpListener `
-Name fabrikamListener `
-Protocol Http `
-FrontendIPConfiguration $fipconfig `
-FrontendPort $frontendport `
-HostName "www.fabrikam.com"
$contosoRule = New-AzureRmApplicationGatewayRequestRoutingRule `
-Name contosoRule `
-RuleType Basic `
-HttpListener $contosoListener `
-BackendAddressPool $contosoPool `
-BackendHttpSettings $poolSettings
$fabrikamRule = New-AzureRmApplicationGatewayRequestRoutingRule `
-Name fabrikamRule `
-RuleType Basic `
-HttpListener $fabrikamListener `
-BackendAddressPool $fabrikamPool `
-BackendHttpSettings $poolSettings
Now that you created the necessary supporting resources, specify parameters for the application gateway named myAppGateway using New-AzureRmApplicationGatewaySku, and then create it using New-AzureRmApplicationGateway.
$sku = New-AzureRmApplicationGatewaySku `
-Name Standard_Medium `
-Tier Standard `
-Capacity 2
$appgw = New-AzureRmApplicationGateway `
-Name myAppGateway `
-ResourceGroupName myResourceGroupAG `
-Location eastus `
-BackendAddressPools $contosoPool, $fabrikamPool `
-BackendHttpSettingsCollection $poolSettings `
-FrontendIpConfigurations $fipconfig `
-GatewayIpConfigurations $gipconfig `
-FrontendPorts $frontendport `
-HttpListeners $contosoListener, $fabrikamListener `
-RequestRoutingRules $contosoRule, $fabrikamRule `
-Sku $sku
In this example, you create two virtual machine scale sets that support the two backend pools that you created. The scale sets that you create are named myvmss1 and myvmss2. Each scale set contains two virtual machine instances on which you install IIS. You assign the scale set to the backend pool when you configure the IP settings.
$vnet = Get-AzureRmVirtualNetwork `
-ResourceGroupName myResourceGroupAG `
-Name myVNet
$appgw = Get-AzureRmApplicationGateway `
-ResourceGroupName myResourceGroupAG `
-Name myAppGateway
$contosoPool = Get-AzureRmApplicationGatewayBackendAddressPool `
-Name contosoPool `
-ApplicationGateway $appgw
$fabrikamPool = Get-AzureRmApplicationGatewayBackendAddressPool `
-Name fabrikamPool `
-ApplicationGateway $appgw
for ($i=1; $i -le 2; $i++)
{
if ($i -eq 1)
{
$poolId = $contosoPool.Id
}
if ($i -eq 2)
{
$poolId = $fabrikamPool.Id
}
$ipConfig = New-AzureRmVmssIpConfig `
-Name myVmssIPConfig$i `
-SubnetId $vnet.Subnets[1].Id `
-ApplicationGatewayBackendAddressPoolsId $poolId
$vmssConfig = New-AzureRmVmssConfig `
-Location eastus `
-SkuCapacity 2 `
-SkuName Standard_DS2 `
-UpgradePolicyMode Automatic
Set-AzureRmVmssStorageProfile $vmssConfig `
-ImageReferencePublisher MicrosoftWindowsServer `
-ImageReferenceOffer WindowsServer `
-ImageReferenceSku 2016-Datacenter `
-ImageReferenceVersion latest
Set-AzureRmVmssOsProfile $vmssConfig `
-AdminUsername azureuser `
-AdminPassword "Azure123456!" `
-ComputerNamePrefix myvmss$i
Add-AzureRmVmssNetworkInterfaceConfiguration `
-VirtualMachineScaleSet $vmssConfig `
-Name myVmssNetConfig$i `
-Primary $true `
-IPConfiguration $ipConfig
New-AzureRmVmss `
-ResourceGroupName myResourceGroupAG `
-Name myvmss$i `
-VirtualMachineScaleSet $vmssConfig
}
$publicSettings = @{ "fileUris" = (,"https://raw.githubusercontent.com/Azure/azure-docs-powershell-samples/master/application-gateway/iis/appgatewayurl.ps1");
"commandToExecute" = "powershell -ExecutionPolicy Unrestricted -File appgatewayurl.ps1" }
for ($i=1; $i -le 2; $i++)
{
$vmss = Get-AzureRmVmss `
-ResourceGroupName myResourceGroupAG `
-VMScaleSetName myvmss$i
Add-AzureRmVmssExtension -VirtualMachineScaleSet $vmss `
-Name "customScript" `
-Publisher "Microsoft.Compute" `
-Type "CustomScriptExtension" `
-TypeHandlerVersion 1.8 `
-Setting $publicSettings
Update-AzureRmVmss `
-ResourceGroupName myResourceGroupAG `
-Name myvmss$i `
-VirtualMachineScaleSet $vmss
}
After the application gateway is created with its public IP address, you can get the DNS address and use it to create a CNAME record in your domain. You can use Get-AzureRmPublicIPAddress to get the DNS address of the application gateway. Copy the fqdn value of the DNSSettings and use it as the value of the CNAME record that you create. The use of A-records is not recommended because the VIP may change when the application gateway is restarted.
Get-AzureRmPublicIPAddress -ResourceGroupName myResourceGroupAG -Name myAGPublicIPAddress
Enter your domain name into the address bar of your browser. Such as, http://www.contoso.com.
Change the address to your other domain and you should see something like the following example:
In this article, you learned how to:
[!div class="checklist"]
- Set up the network
- Create an application gateway
- Create listeners and routing rules
- Create virtual machine scale sets with the backend pools
- Create a CNAME record in your domain
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