Azure Deployment

In this page we shall describe how you're going to deploy the website into the web. The instructions consist of two sections:

Changes required in your project files

client = pymongo.MongoClient(Database.URI)

Go to "database.py" and uncomment the following lines (in initialize() function):

# client = pymongo.MongoClient(os.getenv("CUSTOMCONNSTR_MONGOURL"))

# Database.DATABASE.authenticate(name=os.getenv("CUSTOMCONNSTR_MONGO_USERNAME"),password=os.getenv("CUSTOMCONNSTR_MONGO_PASSWORD"))

Login into your Microsoft account in azure portal:
```
https://portal.azure.com
```
Press on the button "Create a resource"
In the search line search for "Azure Cosmos DB" and when you find the resource press on "create"
In the ID field enter a name of your liking
In the API field choose MongoDB
In the Subscription field choose your subscription
In the Location field choose whatever you want (recommended: West EU)
In the resource group field create a new one and give it a name of your liking
Don't touch other options and press Create
Go to your created CosmosDB database resource under "Azure CosmosDB"
Scroll down to "Connection String" and copy and save the following three values:
- USERNAME
- PRIMARY PASSWORD
- PRIMARY CONNECTION STRING

Login into your Microsoft account in azure portal:
```
https://portal.azure.com
```
Press on the button "Create a resource"
In the search line search for "Web App" and when you find the resource press on "create"
In the name field choose the name of your app (note: this server as the hostname of your app, i.e. if you choose the name "HelloWorld", the url of your web app shall be HelloWorld.azurewebsites.net)
In the resource group field create a new one and give it a name of your liking
Don't touch other options and press Create
Go to your created web app resource under "App Services"
Scroll down until you get to "Application Settings" and press it
In "Python Version" please choose 3.4
Add three connection strings (all three should be selected to be "Custom"):
- MONGOURL with the value of PRIMARY CONNECTION STRING you copied earlier
- MONGO_USERNAME with the value of USERNAME you copied earlier
- MONGO_PASSWORD with the value of PRIMARY PASSWORD you copied earlier
Go to "Deployment option"
Press on "Choose Source"
Choose "GitHub"
Connect into your GitHub account (if prompted to)
Choose the project (the one you cloned earlier)
Press OK