JACOB DUIJZER

Using an Azure Web App to host multiple static html sites

Oct 5, 2021

• Azure
• Azure Web App
• Sphinx
• Static Html
• Azure Blob Storage
• .NET6

There are a lot of static site generators around and I have been using quite a bunch of them. While I used most of them for this (personal) blog, I have also used some for professional purposes like documenting software and for team and company-wide documentation. Especially Sphinx has proven itself to be quite useful.

I want to create an environment with the following requirements:

• Hosting in an Azure Web App
• Protected by Azure Active Directory
• Every project has it’s own documentation (no merge conflicts between teams)
• Use Sphinx but using other generators is possible

In this post I will show how to create a documentation platform which implements the requirements above with only a few lines of code.