I previously added and verified a custom domain "foo.club" and "www.foo.club" (fake examples) to my app engine project.
I let foo.club lapse and so that domain no longer exists. However I cannot remove the domain (or the www) version from the app engine custom domain list.
When I try (in Settings/Custom domains), the 'trashcan' icon is disabled and there is a red exclamation point next to the domain that say "Certificate activation has failed. DNS records could not be found." This last point is expected since the domain does not exist.
There's also an informational box that says "All domains mapped to this application are shown below. Only owners of a domain may remove one of its mappings." I'm not sure if that box always exists or is speficially trying to explain why I can't delete the custom domain.
Regardless, I am the only user in my GCP project and I am the owner of the GCP project (and I was previously the owner of the now-deleted domain).
Further, this domain is no longer present in the list at "https://www.google.com/webmasters/verification/home".
When I try from the commandline, I get:
> gcloud app domain-mappings delete 'foo.club' --verbosity=debug
Error Response: [13] Error deleting the managed certificate for this domain mapping.
(no other useful error messages)
How can I remove this domain from my appengine project?
According to the App Engine Admin API:
A user must be authorized to administer the associated domain in order
to delete a DomainMapping resource.
This means that you must be a domain owner from Google's point of view in order to manage that domain mapping.
If the domain no longer appears in the verified domains in the webmaster central, it means Google does not consider that account as owner of the domain, and that account will not be able to delete the domain mapping.
I guess there are a few options to move forward:
Just leave the domain mapping there
Re-purchase the domain and re-verify your ownership
Open a support ticket with GCP (if you have a support package). Not sure this option will work, but it's worth a try.
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I used to have permissions to remove a custom domain on Google App Engine or upload a new SSL certificate.
However, one day the SSL certificate was expired and I could not upload a new SSL certificate and got the following warning message.
"You do not have sufficient permissions to view this page".
When I remove this custom domain and also got the following warning message.
"All domains mapped to this application are shown below. Only owners of a domain may remove one of its mappings."
I am the owner of managing the domain name group in Google Cloud DNS and project.
Any ideas to solve this issue.
I solved this problem.
I don’t know why this suddenly happened.
The solution was to remove the app engine and create it again and setup the custom domain.
App engine only allows someone who created this app engine and domain name can manage domain names or update ssl certificates.
Moreover, Google now has a new feature to provide auto-renewed ssl certificates for app engine.
We have hired a firm to complete a project in the Google Cloud Platform and need to add their development lead as an Editing Member to our Developer Console so they can create and manage the project.
When trying to add their lead by email address I get a warning that I cannot add a non-domain member. Obviously they do not have an email address with our domain.
I've crawled through the permissions in our Google Apps Admin console and cannot find a setting for this. We would prefer to add them without having to add another user to our Google Apps For Work account.
Does anyone know how to add anyone to the Google Developer's Console from outside of our Google Apps domain?
To workaround this, you can do the following:
Have the domain Administrator for your domain Google Apps Account create a Google Group (say the group name is "GAE").
Have the domain Administrator allow out-of-domain members for the group "GAE".
Add the email addresses of out-of-domain members to group "GAE".
Add group "GAE" to the project.
There will be no confirmation email sent.
Once this is done, within 24 hours group membership propagates such that your Google App Engine Project becomes aware of the new group membership and allows its members access.
I have registered a domain when I was registering Google App for business.
I'm just wondering if I could let that domain point to my server instead of Google site?
If not, how can I release the domain and register it(the same name) from some other domain name provider?
You can associate your purchased domain with your App Engine application. Go to the Admin Console and then Application Settings. You will see a Domain Setup section. Click on Add Domain and follow the steps. For further details, check out the instructions.
Yes, you can manage your DNS records even if you bought the domain as part of the Google Apps sign up. In case you don't want to host your website on Google App Engine or Google Sites you can access the DNS credentials for your assigned provider (Enom, GoDaddy) at Domains -> Advanced DNS Settings from there you should login to your provider console in order to change the settings.
https://support.google.com/a/answer/54693?hl=en
If you want to transfer to another provider, follow the standard procedure that each provider has, it usually requires so email confirmation back and forth. Also, make sure not to renew your domain automatically in the Google Apps admin console, otherwise you may be billed twice for the domain.
Now that Google is offering DNS-as-a-service in the Cloud Platform I wonder when they will end the partner DNS hosting and manage it themselves from end to end.
I have a GAE project (myproject.appspot.com) which I'd like to serve from a custom domain (myapp.com).
I have added the custom domain to my Google Apps account for my company (example.com)
On my dashboard I have successfully added my domain. This is confirmed; it says myapp.com - Active
Following Google's instructions, I perform step 3 (click "Add Domain"), which attempts to log me in using my normal admin account:
Problem #1, it won't let me perform this step:
You are trying to access Google Admin of myapp.com but you do not have a valid logged in account for it.
I have successfully performed step 4 (Activate this service), and my app appears under "App Engine Apps" for my company.
This page displays: Web address — Your users can access MYPROJECT at: https://myproject.appspot.com — Add new URL
I then click on "Add new URL", which offers me a chance to select a domain from a pulldown list that includes all the domains I own on this account (i.e. both example.com and myapp.com).
Problem #2, it won't let me perform this step. I choose http://myapp.com and click [Add]. When I do this, I get an alert in a red popup box that says The term 'myapp.com' is not allowed. The single quotes are unescaped and appear as "'"
I can successfully add the URL for my company domain (example.com) just fine. But it throws an error/alert if I select myapp.com instead.
Why is Google Apps preventing me from using this domain? I clearly own it, and it appears on
the pulldown menu. Why does it say "the term" is not allowed, as if it's a typo? Is this a bug in parsing the unescaped quote characters?
I found a great (and very obscure) solution.
First of all, Google doesn't tell you this, but the custom domain cannot be a secondary domain on your Google Apps account. Only the primary domain can be selected for "Add new URL."
There are two solutions. One is to add the second domain (myapp.com) to your Google Apps account as a domain alias for the primary (example.com), not a secondary domain. This may not be acceptable for many users, since it means you cannot use myapp.com to deliver different content from example.com.
The second solution is to create an entirely independent, separate Google Apps account, and make your domain (myapp.com) a primary domain for that account. This too may not be acceptable for many users, since you may not feel like paying for a Google Apps account (minimum of $50 per user per year). However, there is a very cool way to get a Google Apps account for free.
You can create an independent Google Apps account with exactly 1 user, and then delete Google Apps for that user. This sounds weird, but stay with me. The superuser account remains, so you can administer the domain and the App Engine app. What you give up are the paid services: gmail,docs,calendar, etc. for that user, which means you're not obliged to pay the $50/year.
Here's the recipe. You will need:
a) a Google User account (e.g. joe#myapp.com created at http://gmail.com)
b) an App Engine account (e.g. http://appengine.google.com)
c) a Google Apps account (e.g. http://admin.google.com/myapp.com)
Create your Google Apps account, you will get a free 30-day trial.
Make sure your user (a) is an owner of the app engine project (b).
Make sure you add your app engine project (b) to your Apps account (c).
Under "Admin Console / More controls / App Engine Apps" ("add services", click icon in upper right corner)
Here's where you delete the paid services and keep the Apps account for free:
In the admin console, choose Company Profile / Profile.
Scroll all the way down to Account Deletion. Look for the text "One or more subscriptions are still active. Please cancel these subscriptions "
Click "subscriptions".
Click "Google Apps".
Click "Cancel Google Apps" (It's the ⃠ icon on the extreme right side of page)
This will delete the paid services (gmail,docs,cal, etc.) so you will no longer have access to any of those. Gmail will not handle any email sent to joe#myapp.com. You will need to set up the MX records for myapp.com to point to some other service if you want to enable email for the myapp.com domain. But you will have the myapp.com domain associated with your Apps account and with your App Engine app, for free, and you will be able to log in as joe#myapp.com to administer them both.
At some point, if you change your mind and decide you want Gmail for your users, you are always welcome to add the Google Apps service back on, and of course purchase licenses for $50/user/year.
You need to add the GAE app from your Google Apps for Domain account. There is a form where you can add an appengine app to your Google Apps account, but it's not in your GAE account, it's in your Google Apps account.
I have an application http://faqs4j.appspot.com. I have purchased a domain called jobs4j.
I added domain using application settings in app engine console and also made necessory
CNAME changes in godaddy DNS managing console.
Now when I type in browser in.jobs4j.com it simply ridirects to http://faqs4j.appspot.com.But
I want my application to be served under sub-domain in.jobs4j.com and not just redirection to
appspot domain. what configuration I am missing?
thanks for your time.
In the application dashboard, under administration / application settings, you have a section titled "Domain setup". In it you can configure domains to be used for this application.
The process will require you to set up a "google apps" account (don't worry, a single-user domain is free), then transfer the domain(s) you want to be managed by Google apps by setting up a CNAME entry in your domain zone file. The instructions show you how to do it. Of course, where the instructions recommend you define your CNAME subdomain as "www", you will want your subdomain to be called "in".
Unfortunately, Google has ended the option to have a free Google Apps account, sigh!
However, we could still point the GAE app from a custom domain (non-Google apps owned).
Step 1 : Go to Application Settings in the GAE dashboard and add a
custom domain. You will be asked to verify the domain during which
Google would basically create a TXT record in your DNS zone file.
Step 2 : Once the 3rd party domain is verified, add the custom domain
for the app (my-gae-app.mydomain.app). It shows instructions
on how to add the CNAME entry for the domain.
Hope this helps!