Installation
Gallery
From gallery, I chose nopCommerce. Note that they only have the latest version.
Database
After the instance is up, I have to go thru the standard installation guide for nopCommerce. Fairly straight forward non-cloud stuff.
So far so good, in fact I don't anticipate any issues at this stage.
So far so good, in fact I don't anticipate any issues at this stage.
Store Front
And we have an e-commerce store setup on Azure comfortably easy.
Setup
Plugins
I thought there will be some resistance with the plugins folder permissions, but in fact not. I installed a commercial pack of plugins and everything work straight out of the box. ;)
Unfortunately email services wouldn't work just out of the box.
Since there is no SMTP server setup in the cloud, we will need to use 3rd party service to help us sending out emails. One of the popular one you can find on the Azure Marketplace is SendGrid.
I have my connection string set as follow in nopCommerce, and email sent out and received fine.
Since there is no SMTP server setup in the cloud, we will need to use 3rd party service to help us sending out emails. One of the popular one you can find on the Azure Marketplace is SendGrid.
I have my connection string set as follow in nopCommerce, and email sent out and received fine.
Payment Gateway
For our test, I have setup the Payments.PayPalDirect plugin.
After ordering some sample products from our website, the fund would go thru to PayPal Sandbox.
After ordering some sample products from our website, the fund would go thru to PayPal Sandbox.
XML Drop
In some of the old fashion system, we are still relying on an older technology that I called Xml Drop or Xml Dump.
Basically what it does is in our site, we will generate an xml file that contains some information and the 3rd party integration system will have a collector to pick up those xml files and perform their other actions. These xml files are not exposed publicly via web, but in a form of secure ftp or a share drive via vpn with authentication and authorization.
Unfortunately I cannot find such products on Azure would do that. The closest item that I found is the Azure Storage but I cannot replace Xml Drop directly.
A better solution is to replace the Xml Drop by using Web Api. If the 3rd party system is not capable to call an api, we will then need to use Queue or ServiceBus.
Basically what it does is in our site, we will generate an xml file that contains some information and the 3rd party integration system will have a collector to pick up those xml files and perform their other actions. These xml files are not exposed publicly via web, but in a form of secure ftp or a share drive via vpn with authentication and authorization.
Unfortunately I cannot find such products on Azure would do that. The closest item that I found is the Azure Storage but I cannot replace Xml Drop directly.
A better solution is to replace the Xml Drop by using Web Api. If the 3rd party system is not capable to call an api, we will then need to use Queue or ServiceBus.
Conclusion
At first, I anticipated I would get much resistance at the integration points or folder permission as it is a managed IIS instance, but it turns out it was pretty straight forward.
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