Migrating WordPress to Azure gotchas

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I’m in the process of migrating a WordPress site to be hosted in Azure, primarily to make it easier to manage and configure than its current host in DreamHost.

Source:

  • PHP 5.x
  • MySQL

Destinations:

  • Azure WordPress Docker image (with MySQL in App enabled)
  • Azure Linux WordPress Docker image (with a separate Azure MySQL service)

This post is a work-in-progress. I’m writing this post to keep track of the issues faced with different hosting options available in Azure.

Azure Linux WordPress Docker image

  • MySQL in App doesn’t seem to be supported on a Linux image - however this post suggests otherwise
  • The MySQL image for Azure doesn’t support MyISAM as a data engine due to lack of transaction support; if your original WordPress database uses