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