In August Microsoft launced the preview of Mysql in-app for Azure webapps. This means that you can enable Mysql in your webapp and you’ll get immediate access to a Mysql database within your application. Running WordPress, Joomla or any other PHP/Mysql-based CMS have never been easier. Please note that this is at the moment not for production workloads due to the single-instance database. Read the article for more information at https://azure.microsoft.com/sv-se/blog/mysql-in-app-preview-app-service/.

So how do you get it up and running?

Create a new webapp.

Name your webapp and if you don’t have one, create an App Service Plan.

Once deployment is finished we need to edit some settings.

Switch to PHP 5.7, and turn off ARR. Click Save.

The magic of turning on MySql is up next. Click “on” and if you’re just testing, don’t touch the logging settings. Click “Save”.

Now you’ll need to head over to WordPress.org and download the package. Save it on your computer and unzip the files. You’ll also need an FTP client. Assuming you’re running Windows you can grab Filezilla for free.

Edit your deployment credentials if you don’t know then.

Check the portal for your FTP hostname and enter the corresponding values in your FTP client.

When the upload is done you can use the brand new editor to change wp-config-sample.php.

You need to delete some code and paste in the following code:

$connectstr_dbhost = '';
 $connectstr_dbname = '';
 $connectstr_dbusername = '';
 $connectstr_dbpassword = '';

foreach ($_SERVER as $key => $value) {
 if (strpos($key, "MYSQLCONNSTR_localdb") !== 0) {
 continue;
 }$connectstr_dbhost = preg_replace("/^.*Data Source=(.+?);.*$/", "\\1", $value);
 $connectstr_dbname = preg_replace("/^.*Database=(.+?);.*$/", "\\1", $value);
 $connectstr_dbusername = preg_replace("/^.*User Id=(.+?);.*$/", "\\1", $value);
 $connectstr_dbpassword = preg_replace("/^.*Password=(.+?)$/", "\\1", $value);
 }

// ** MySQL settings - You can get this info from your web host ** //
 /** The name of the database for WordPress */
 define('DB_NAME', $connectstr_dbname);

/** MySQL database username */
 define('DB_USER', $connectstr_dbusername);

/** MySQL database password */
 define('DB_PASSWORD', $connectstr_dbpassword);

/** MySQL hostname : this contains the port number in this format host:port . Port is not 3306 when using this feature*/
 define('DB_HOST', $connectstr_dbhost);