I am writing a little app for Google App Engine. I would like to point a domain I already own to my Google App Engine application. This domain has been in my possession for years and is currently unused and parked at another host.
When I go to add my domain from my admin console, it sends me to the Google Apps signup page. It looks like Google Apps is for gmail accounts, google drive space, etc, and I already have all these items. I am not sure why it's trying to force me to signup for this account when I am trying to point a domain to my Google App Engine application.
What am I doing wrong? Do I actually need a Google Apps account to point a domain to my GAE application?
I feel like I'm doing something wrong or missing something very obvious, but I have no idea what it could be.
You should sign up for Google Apps, but you do not have to use Gmail, etc., with this domain name if you don't want to. Google is trying to move all of its services to a single platform, which makes integration easier (e.g. authentication, user management, etc.)
Its in the docs. Yes in there it says the domain needs to be a google apps domain.
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I'm helping out a friend, he bought a domain through Google apps for a business email e.g. mybusiness#mybusiness.com. He now wants me to put a website for this domain e.g. www.mybusiness.com.
So he gave me login details for his Google apps account and after looking around i found login details for GoDaddy DNS control panel here.
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Now this only allows me to change DNS settings, where are the options, such as wordpress, mysql,cpanel etc? These are the only login details he was given for Godaddy? I tried to login at Godaddy.com and these login details don't work, username doesn't exist. When i visit e.g. www.mybusiness.com/cpanel i get a google error 404 page but he bought the domain?
Please tell me how this works. I simply want to put a website on the domain he bought with Google apps.
it sounds like your friend only bought the domain + google apps account. you didn't mention any hosting/server that he paid for. in this case, he needs to get web hosting wherever he likes, and just point the dns accordingly. your question is tagged with google-app-engine for some reason. So if you intend to use google app engine for web hosting, you need to create a project and assign it the domain you purchased.
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 am trying to take a GAE app and have it upload logging data, in CSV format, into Google Storage, and then into Big Query (via an upload job). The documentation says that the proper way to authorize a GAE app to have write permission in an API project is to add the GAE application as a team member in the API project.
However, there is a domain restriction in the API Team panel, that makes it impossible for us to add the '#appspot.gserviceaccount.com' address that the documentation says we need to. I talked with our IT department (who setup the API Project to being with) and they aren't sure how to circumvent that restriction.
I must be missing something, but how should we authorize our GAE App to push data into our API Project when we cannot add the account in this manner?
Thanks.
Create a Google group on your domain.
Add that group email address to the team editors in your Google Developers project.
Then add the Google App Engine application email address to that Group.
You might have to wait a short time before the permissions kick in.
So now Google released the multi-tenant feature for gae.
Assuming i am going to implement a google app engine application and put it on google apps market place.
suppose www.doma.com and www.domb.com bought the application.
can usera from doma and userb from domb authenticate to this application with their google apps domain username (in other words) can usera#doma and userb#domb use authenticate with gae?
Thanks in advance
Google does not limit users when they go through OpenID or Google Accounts authentication procedure, your code should do this. After user is authenticated control is handed back to your code - at this point you should check users data and decide to pass the request through or not.
Also, if you want to use doma.com and domb.com as your domain names on GAE you need to own this domains and create separate Google Apps account for each of them. This means that random user cannot have user#doma.com email address (unless you manually created an account for them on Google Apps).
I'm having trouble getting my domain pointed to my website hosted with google app engine. Here's the background... take care to separate the concepts of "google apps" (domain hosting, email, etc.) and "google app engine" (website framework).
I have a domain that's using Google Apps for Your Domain, let's call it company.com. So my login for my google apps account is bob#company.com. I have a different domain that is aliased back to my google apps account, let's call it mycompany.com. It's been successfully aliased and registered with my primary google apps account using the cname method, and has updated mx records. We have a ton of domains, and I only want to use one "google apps" account to maintain them all.
Now I have a website I've built using google app engine, and the url is effectively mycompany.appspot.com. I want to get mycompany.com to point to my website that currently resides at mycompany.appspot.com.
There's a spot in the google app engine dashboard under application settings where you can add a domain. So I click there and enter mycompany.com and I get an error message saying that domain is not using google apps.
If I back up to the page I submitted, there's a note saying I need to register the domain with google apps. So I click the link to do that and enter mycompany.com and I get an error message saying the domain has been registered and is in the process of ownership verification. But that process is already finished.
So... what do I do? Does google app engine not support a domain that is only aliased to a primary google apps account? Does mycompany.com need to have its own primary google apps account?
I ran into this problem setting up my domain. It's a little counter-intuitive, but you'll want to add (in your example) company.com to your appengine account. Once you add company.com, you'll see a dropdown listing all of the domains that belong to your hosted google apps account, including mycompany.com.