I have a paid account for google app engine, when trying to create a compute engine I'm not able to create a new project, says
Developers console has not been activated contact administrator
Can't find perfect solution.
Billing account is active.
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I've got a Google App Engine project account and want to give access to a new developer who's going to help out, but I don't want him to have the account access details. How do I add him as a user so he can deploy and test code on my account (locally on his machine using the SDK and live), but not do anything I don't want him to do with the account?
I know I need to use IAM roles somehow, but does the developer already need a Google account (don't think he has one) or can I just send an invite to his existing email etc?
Many thanks,
Alex
Your developer will require a Google account, which can be a gmail account or a Google Apps account.
Check out the description of the App Engine IAM roles and then grant the appropriate access to your developer's Google account.
In your case that might be either "Editor" or "App Engine Service Admin".
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'm unable to map a custom domain to my Google App Engine app. The steps I've already taken are:
I'm the admin of the Google Apps account
I'm the owner of the Google App Engine Account
I've added the domain to the "Domains" section of Google Apps
I've verified ownership of the domain within Google Apps
I've correctly setup the MX records of the domain
I've checked that the domain was correctly setup using: https://toolbox.googleapps.com/apps/checkmx/
However, for the last 3 days in the Domains section of Google Apps it says "MX records setup validation in progress".
Additionally, when I go to add the domain within the Application settings of the Google App Engine account I get redirected to a sign in page (despite already being signed in, and an admin within Google Apps, and the owner of the Google App Engine app). Either way when I go to sign in again I just get redirected back to the signin page and I'm not able to get any farther.
Also, I have billing enabled for the App Engine account. I've configured app engine domains numerous times before and never had these issues. Any help would be appreciated.
Update:
Following #presveva's suggestion I setup a new Google Apps account (despite already having an existing one) and the first page after creating a new Google App was a server error. After refreshing the page and verifying ownership of the domain I went to add the domain to App Engine.
On the "Please accept the Google App Engine terms and conditions to continue" page, first of all no terms even showed (numerous XMLHttpRequest errors on the page), and after submitting "I accept. Continue to add this service" the next page stated "An error occurred while trying to install this application. Please try again later."
This process is horribly broke and would be great if Google addressed this.
I know this this post is old but I ran into the same issue.
All ready running Google Apps for my primary domain.
Created a new app and registered a new domain name for that.
Don't want to get a new payed Google Apps account for the app domain.
#presveva is right but there is one way around it.
Use your current Google Apps account and add the app domain as a alias for your primary domain.
Make the admin account of your Google Apps domain owner of the Google App Engine (GAE) application.
Add the GAE app to your Google Apps account via the Google Apps admin interface.
Setup a custom domain name for the domain alias, your new app domain.
Note: If you use Google Sites for your domain you can't use www. Disable sites if you want to use GAE.
For now, the only one way for using custom domain in GAE is signup a Google Apps account (domains article).
Notice that the domain need to be the primary domain of account, a new account for domain.
The docs I have linked mentions a free single-user account but it has been replaced by a 50$ credit for a business Google Apps account (forum annunce)
I created an application on Google App Engine, using my Google account.
I have another developer who will be working on the project with me.
How can he deploy the app from his machine also, using his own Google account? I dont want to give him my password.
In app settings go to "Permissions" page from left menu. There you can add new developer's email and set permission for him("Owner" or "Developer" or Viewer).
Than he will receive notice on e-mail with accepting link.
After approving he will be able to work with your app with own account.
My company has an application hosted on Google App Engine for which I had enabled billing back when we couldn't setup a Google Checkout account with a Google Apps for your Domain account.
So what I did is add the company's credit card to my personal Google Checkout account, and use my personal Checkout account to pay for the GAE app weekly fees.
Now that Google Checkout (aka Google Wallet) can be setup with domain accounts, I would like to transfer my company's GAE app billing to the Wallet/Checkout account that I have created with my company's Google App domain account.
However, I don't see any obvious way to do this in the Billing settings section of my app's administration console, and the documentation only mentions how to transfer billing responsabilities to someone else.
Does anybody know how to do this?
Thanks!
You have to log in with the account that you want to be the billing administrator and then go to the Billing Settings from the Admin Console and click on Take Over Billing. Here is a screenshot: