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I have a Python application which creates a HTML file which I then want to upload to an Azure Web Application.

What is the best way to do this?

I originally started try to do it using FTP and then switched to pushing with GIT. None of these really felt right. How should I be doing this?

UPDATE

I have this 99% working. I'm using a Storage Account to host a static site (which feels like the right way to do this).

This is how I am uploading:

        blob_service_client = BlobServiceClient.from_connection_string(az_string)
        # Create a blob client using the local file name as the name for the blob
        blob_client = blob_service_client.get_blob_client(container=container_name, blob=local_file_name)

        print("\nUploading to Azure Storage as blob:\n\t" + local_file_name)

        # Upload the created file
        with open('populated.html', "rb") as data:
            blob_client.upload_blob(data)

The only problem that I have now, is that the file is downloading instead of opening in the browser. I think I need to set the content type somewhere.

Update 2 Working now, I added:

my_content_settings = ContentSettings(content_type='text/html')

test = blob_client.upload_blob(data, overwrite=True, content_settings=my_content_settings)

Cheers,

Mick

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The best way to do this is up to you.

Generally, there are two ways to upload a HTML file to Azure Web App for Windows, as below.

  1. Following the Kudu wiki page Accessing files via ftp to upload a file via FTP.
  2. Following the sections VFS, Zip and Zip Deployment of Kudu wiki page REST API to call the related PUT REST API to upload a file via HTTP client.

However, based on my understanding for your scenario, the two ways above are not simple. So I recommanded to use the feature Static website of Azure Blob Storage Gen 2 to host your static HTML file generated by your Python application and to upload files via Azure Storage SDK for Python. I think it's simple enough to you, even you can bind a custom domain to the default host name of static website of Azure Blob Storage via DNS CNAME.

The steps are below.

  1. Refer to the offical document Host a static website in Azure Storage to create an account of Azure Blob Storage Gen 2 and enable the feature Static website.

  2. Refer to the other offical document Quickstart: Azure Blob storage client library v12 for Python to write the code for uploading in your current Python application . The container default named $web is for hosting static website, you just need to upload the files to it, then access its primary endpoint as the figure from offical document below to see it.

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OK, I will give this a go. Thanks.

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