Microsoft azure – WordPress hosting tuning

How to configure rewrite rules:

It’s necessary to connect via FTP to azure VM and update ftp://host/site/wwwroot/web.config file.

<rewrite>
			<rules>
				<rule name="Rewrite tcS3_media">
					<match url="^tcS3_media/(.*)" />
					<action type="Redirect" url="http://downloads.vodnici.net/{R:1}" appendQueryString="false" redirectType="Permanent" />
				</rule>
			</rules>
		</rewrite>

• http://stackoverflow.com/questions/17871717/how-do-you-configure-windows-azure-for-url-rewrite-using-wordpress
• http://www.bousie.co.uk/blog/pretty-wordpress-permalinks-on-azure/
• http://www.iis.net/learn/extensions/url-rewrite-module/creating-rewrite-rules-for-the-url-rewrite-module
• http://stackoverflow.com/questions/22182087/iis-rewrite-rule-to-redirect-specific-domain-url-to-different-url-on-same-domain

How to migrate other blogs to WordPress on Azure

• http://labnol.blogspot.cz/2007/05/move-your-blogs-from-blogger-to.html

 Mass delete all images from media library

• install SQL Executioner
• run DELETE FROM `wp_posts` WHERE `post_type` = “attachment”