Is it possible to point a domain to my custom domain?
domain1.com --> myapp.com --> myapp.appspot.com
domain2.com --> myapp.com --> myapp.appspot.com
I successfully pointed www.myapp.com to myapp.appspot.com
creating a CNAME and and pointing it to ghs.google.com
Google will redirect a bare domain for you, it's described at http://support.google.com/a/bin/answer.py?hl=en&answer=2518373.
In this case, mydomain.com would have an A record pointing to a Google IP address, and requests for http://mydomain.com delivered to that IP address would get an HTTP response redirecting the browser to http://www.mydomain.com by Google; www.mydomain.com would have a CNAME DNS entry that points to ghs.google.com; user requests arriving there are routed based on their Host: header to App Engine and then to an instance of your app. The user would see "www.mydomain.com" in their address bar.
I don't know if I fully understand your explanation of the two domains, but if you want users who try to go to http://myotherdomain.com to end up at the app, as well, you should be able to do this with a Google Apps domain alias: add myotherdomain.com as a domain alias for mydomain.com and repeat the steps to get the naked domain redirected and www.myotherdomain.com to go to ghs.google.com, and you can make your app available on www.myotherdomain.com.
I just discovered today (as of 2014-04-11) a new custom domain settings page is available from Google Developers Console:
Go to https://console.developers.google.com/project
Click on your project
On the left click "App Engine"
Click "Settings"
There you go! You can configure custom domain without the need of Google App account!
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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).
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)
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!
I have a GAE app and I have already been able to redirect appidentifier.appspot.com to my own domain's www subdomain and the naked domain. For example, if I owned foo.appspot.com and foo.com, then entering in www.foo.com or foo.com into the browser will render the contents of foo.appspot.com successfully. I configured all this using Google Apps on the Google side of things and NameCheap on the registrar side of things.
Now, I have made a new, non-default version of my GAE app. Let's call it dev.foo.appspot.com. How do I set up a URL forward (or what-not) so that I can access this GAE version by simply entering dev.foo.com into my browser?
What you are looking for to do is possible if you set up a wildcard subdomain mapping. This is well documented in the final section of Using a Custom Domain.
I've purchased a domain name with GoDaddy and have some sub domains setup, ie:
www.example.com
status.example.com
store.example.com
I want to create three applications on AppEngine under a single account, ie:
example.appspot.com
status.appspot.com
store.appspot.com
I would like to point each domain to a different app, ie:
www.example.com -> example.appspot.com
status.example.com -> status.appspot.com
store.example.com -> store.appspot.com
The question is, what do I need to do to set this up?
Do I sign up to google apps and add example.com as my domain, then somehow link this to my appengine account, will the subdomains be recognized as belonging to my account or do I have to do some extra work to set these up?
You need to setup the domain with Google Apps (free version is fine), then add each of your apps to the domain. You can add the app from the domain management console dashboard (click "Add more services"). When you add an app to the domain you can set the URL in the domain's management console.
There is also a how to in the App Engine docs, it explains how to initial the process from your App Engine admin console. I prefer to just handle all of the steps from the domain's management console.