Hi,
I have a rather basic question, since I'm just starting to get my hands on SharePoint 2013 App-development.
I am struggling with a provider hosted app. I created an Hello World app just to get familiar with it. I noticed that you need to specify the remote app URL in the app manifest definition (xml). I searched the internet for a long time, but can't find what I'm looking for, so here's my question:
Can you change the remote app url after the app is deployed to SharePoint Online in any way?
Example:
In our situation, we would like to connect a customer's SharePoint Online environment with a on premise web application we developed for that customer. The idea is to install a provider hosted app with a remote app location on the customer's web server. From
that remote app, we would have access to both our custom application on that web server and the SharePoint online environment and connect the two.
But what if the customer decides to move their web application or server (with our remote app on it) so that the url changes? Can we change this in the app that is installed in the SharePoint Online environment?
Quite possibly I'm looking at this problem from the wrong angle, so maybe this problem should be solved in a totally different way. Anyhow, any help would be greatly appreciated, so thanks in advance!
Cheers, Ruud.