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I have deployed a Sitefinity 14 installation to Azure as an App Service to do some testing of Sitefinity features prior to a commencing a client project. I have configured the App Service as per this documentation. This included installing version 1.0.4 of the App Gateway Host Rewrite Module (as an App Service extension).

I've then set up the .NET Core Renderer on my local machine and have specified the URL of the app service as the Sitefinity URL in appsettings.json, similar to the below:

{
  "Logging": {
    "LogLevel": {
      "Default": "Information",
      "Microsoft": "Warning",
      "Microsoft.Hosting.Lifetime": "Information"
    }
  },
  "AllowedHosts": "*",
  "Sitefinity": {
    "Url": "https://mysitefinityapp.azurewebsites.net",
    "WebServicePath": "api/default"
  }
}

When I run the .NET core renderer application I can browse the front end of the Sitefinity instance just fine at https://localhost:5001. However, when I enter https://localhost:5001/Sitefinity, the .NET core renderer is then redirected to https://mysitefinityapp.azurewebsites.net/Sitefinity and all Sitefinity interaction from that point on continues on the app service URL rather than the .NET core renderer URL.

I battled with this for some time and then decided to try downgrading the App Gateway Host Rewrite Module to version 1.0.3. To my surprise, with version 1.0.3 in place, https://localhost:5001/Sitefinity no longer redirected to the app service domain and I was able to use my .NET core renderer URL to interact with Sitefinity from that point on.

So I am wondering, is there a bug with v1.0.4 of the rewrite module that is causing the redirection to take place? Or is there some other configuration I have missed in my App Service or .NET Core Renderer setup?