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In other words, you cannot create a deployment slot with the Free, Shared, and Basic modes.
The following configuration items will not move to the destination slot: Publishing endpoints Custom domain names SSL certificates and bindings Scale settings
A web hosting plan defines the supported feature set and capacity of a group of virtual machine resources that are hosting one or more websites.
Websites can be migrated between web hosting plans provided they meet two conditions. First, the website and the web hosting plan must reside in the same region. Second, the web hosting plans in question must be a part of the same resource group.
Note that whereas A records enable you to map the root of the domain (like contoso.com) and provide a wildcard mapping for all subdomains below the root (like www.contoso.com and demo.contoso.com), CNAME records enable you to map only subdomains (like the www in www.contoso.com).
You cannot map a custom name to your website if it is in Free mode.
B. Following the instructions provided by your domain name registrar, add a new CNAME record with the name awverify and the value awverify.<yourwebsitename>.azurewebsites.net.
You can check the status of your DNS changes by doing a DNS lookup using third-party websites like http://mxtoolbox.com/DNSLookup.aspx
The IP address that you get by following the preceding steps will change if you move your website to a Free web hosting plan, if you delete and re-create it, or if you subsequently enable SSL with the IP-based type.
Using the certificate for the *.azurewebsites.net domain No special configuration is required to use the SSL certificate provided for *.azurewebsites.net since it is provided by Microsoft, is automatically available, and is enabled for any website. To use SSL with your website, clients need only communicate with your website using the HTTPS endpoint, as in https://<yourwebsitename>.azurewebsites.net.
Therefore, while you can rely on the *.azurewebsites.net wildcard certificate during development and arguably for certain non-public scenarios, ultimately it’s best practice to secure your website using a custom certificate.
SSL certificates for custom domain names require that the website is configured in the Basic or Standard mode
