Finalizing the apps configuration
Our app is now deployed, but there are a couple of further enhancements we can make if we wish. First of all, it is incredibly hard to debug live issues without some kind of logging enabled, and second of all, most applications these days should be running on HTTPS—especially those with payment processing, such as ours. In this section, we'll take a look at how to enable logging within Azure, and then how to make the most of the free SSL certificate we have access to while using an Azure website's subdomain as we are doing now.
Enabling logging in Azure
Enabling logging in Azure is probably the most difficult aspect of configuring an app service. While viewing the app service details page, you can scroll right down on the secondary menu to find the Diagnostics logs
section, where you can configure all kinds of logging options. However, what we'd be interested in is the Application Logging
(Filesystem)
option, but if you hover over the more information icon...