How to Enable CDN for Windows Azure
Updated: March 2, 2011
Once you enable CDN access to a storage account or hosted service, all publicly available objects are eligible for CDN edge caching.
If you modify an object that is currently cached in the CDN, the new content will not be available via the CDN until the CDN refreshes its content when the cached content time-to-live period expires.
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Log into the Windows Azure Management Portal.
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In the navigation pane, click Hosted Services, Storage Accounts & CDN.
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In the upper portion of the navigation pane, click CDN.
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On the ribbon, click New Endpoint. This will open the Create a New CDN Endpoint window.
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On the Create a New CDN Endpoint window select a subscription from the Choose a Subscription dropdown on which to enable CDN.
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Select the source of the CDN content from the Chose a content provider dropdown.
Note The content source URL will display Source URL for the CDN Endpoint. This is the URL from which the CDN will retrieve the cached content. Important Check Enable CDN. -
If you need to use HTTPS connections check HTTPS. For more information on HTTPS and Windows Azure CDN, see Overview of the Windows Azure CDN.
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If you are caching content from a hosted service and you are using query strings to specify the content to be retrieved, check Query Strings. For more information using Query strings to differentiate objects to cache, see Overview of the Windows Azure CDN.
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Click Create.
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| The configuration created for the endpoint will not immediately be available; it can take up to 60 minutes for the registration to propagate through the CDN network. Users who try to use the CDN domain name immediately will receive status code 400 (Bad Request) until the content is available via the CDN. |
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