Naked custom domain stopped working - google-app-engine

I have had a custom domain pointing to my appengine app for a long while now. Today the naked domain stoped working (get google's 404 page). ie mydomain.com no longer works where as www.mydomain.com works. DNS entries are correct ( I have multiple domains attached to the same appengine app and they all work except for one).

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Mapping Google App Engine with Google Domains

I am having trouble mapping the Google App Engine with Google Domains. I have a domain registered, let's call it example.com. What I want to achieve is both example.com and www.example.com can access the web application I deployed on Google App Engine. Also, I would like urls starting with either http:// or https:// able to visit the web application as well.
Therefore, there are four different urls I need to take care of: 1. http://example.com, 2. http://www.example.com, 3: http://example.com, 4. https://www.example.com.
What I have done is verify example.com and www.example.com on the Google App engine, obtained the records, then added the A, AAAA, and CNAME record to the Custom resource records in Google domains. After that, I use the Synthetic records on Google Domains to forward the subdomain #.example.com to https://www.example.com with SSL enabled, so I thought it should take care of the four cases I mentioned above.
However, after all thoses steps, the A and AAAA records are move from the custom resource records to the synthetic record. Recently, I am experiencing bugs in which webpages cannot be opened on the https:// url but are able to open on the http:// url.
I wonder if my subdomain forwarding is causing the issue I am seeing? If so, ow should I map all 4 urls to the web-application on Google App Engine and redirect them to the https://www.example.com?
Map 'example.com' to your app engine domain. Enable the free SSL certificate from app engine
Map 'www.example.com' to your app engine domain. Enable the free SSL certificate from app engine
In your app.yaml file, set the attribute for 'secure' to always. This means that when a user types in 'http//example.com', they will automatically get redirected to 'https://example.com'. This means you don't have to do anything extra on your end (i.e. no need for any forwarding)
Note that with the above setting, you will still end up with 2 sets of urls - the naked domain https://example.com and the subdomain - https://www.example.com. It is good practice to have only 1 set i.e. either forward all naked to the sub or vice versa. You can do it at the domain registration point or have your code do it (in your app).

Custom domain DNS config for Google App Engine

I recently configured my Google App Engine app to have a custom domain. I set up my naked domain (myapp.com) by including a TXT record with host "#" and the value provided by Google in my DNS setup with my domain registrar. I then added the four "A" and four "AAAA" records provided by Google.
I then set up "www.myapp.com" using a CNAME record with host "www" and value "ghs.googlehosted.com.".
However, I've noticed that when I type "www.myapp.com" into my browser, I'm only directed to my app sometimes. Other times I'm redirected to the domain landing page of my registrar.
Any idea why this is happening?

Naked and www custom domains with Google App Engine

I have added two custom domains to Google Developers Console for a Google App Project. One, a naked domain with A and AAA records set on the third party DNS manager as specified by Google. Two, a www domain with a Cname record set on the third party DNS manager, as specified by Google.
The www is serving, but the naked domain is not! The A records ip addresses timeout on my local machine but I get results when using http://tools.pingdom.com/ping/
Obviously you can use more than one custom domain but is there something I'm missing here?
Update: custom naked domain mapping is now supported directly in GAE, see How to use Google app engine with my own naked domain (not subdomain)?.
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If it's acceptable for you to use custom domains through Google Apps then you can use the Google Admin console to:
map your naked domain to Google Apps
redirect the naked domain to a certain (sub)domain of your choice
I find several advantages of going this way:
you can change the naked domain redirect without any change in the
GAE apps domain configs
the direct domain mapping of GAE apps (without using Google Apps) is
still very young, documentation is far from exhaustive
you can use SSL with your custom domains, according to the docs:
"To add Secure Sockets Layer (SSL) encryption (i.e., an HTTPS
address) to your App Engine app, you must use the SSL service
provided with Google Apps".

Google Apps Custom Domain SSL configured but connection fails

I've followed the steps on https://cloud.google.com/appengine/docs/ssl and https://support.google.com/a/answer/2644334. I have a custom domain, have correctly uploaded the certificate. Everything seemed to be working, but then an hour later every https: connection fails with ERR_CONNECTION_CLOSED (in Chrome). How can I debug this?
My www CNAME record is ghs.googlehosted.com
I'm accessing the site via the www subdomain https://www.example.com
Google Apps shows as serving SNI only for the assigned url www.example.com
Billing is enabled
www.example.com is set as a custom domain in cloud console
http://www.example.com works fine
https://app-engine-id.appspot.com works fine (but I think this is irrelevant)
there are no errors in cloud console logs

Google Domain: Error 404 while redirecting to external site with cname www

I have purchased a two domains from google. Let's say a.com and b.com
My Appengine project is linked to a.com
I just have to redirect from b.com to a.com
I have forwarded the naked domain to a.com and have pointed the CNAME 'www' to '#'
But still, http://b.com gets redirected but, http://www.b.com does not get redirected. Instead I get an Error 404
Additionally, I think, the above purchased domain do not have fixed ip, hence pointing A-record of b.com to IP of a.com seems not possible
After having a long conversation with the Google Apps Representative, it seems that the configuration is all fine, but if you purchase a domain for google and do not pay additionally for google apps for atleast one user, subdomain forwarding is not possible.
In my opinion, just allowing naked domain forwarding but blocking subdomain forwarding (for essential subdomain like www) is not completely helpful. Cname redirects or subdomain forwarding to external site should have been allowed, whether or not a customer pays for google apps.
To sum it up, it seems that for every domain you purchase from google you are compelled to purchase a registration of google apps.
The Google App Engine service allows custom domains through virtual hosting. Adding a CNAME in DNS will fail because you need to configure a domain alias in order for App Engine to recognise it.
Add your domain alias through your corresponding Google Apps account as explained here
If your domain alias is not that important in itself, configure URL forwarding on the DNS level, this will redirect your browser to the primary domain.
Incidently, it's not because an IDE plug-in such as the Google Eclipse plug-in doesn't distinguish between GWT and App Engine projects that you shouldn't either: this is totally unrelated to GWT :-) (you linked this on the Google+ GWT community)

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