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.
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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 hosted my application in Google App Engine. Now I can able to access my app using example.com and as well as www.example.com. Now I want to redirect every request to www.example.com. How to perform this redirection?
It's nothing to do with django or appengine. Look into your domain hosting and find out how to change Cname record (domain forwarding. )
If you are handling the domain using Google Apps for Work then you can do so from Admin Console > Domains > Change redirect and then follow the instructions. Either case as it's already mentioned you will have to change/update the CNAME records from your domain provider.
I have a website running on google appengine. Url being say: www.mysite.com
recently I acquired the domains www.mysite.co.in and www.mysite.org
Question 1: Can I attach these new domain urls to the same server so that .com, .org and .co.in all work and how?
Note: I am NOT looking for redirecting these new urls to .com url.
If you do not need SSL (only http) then you can simply add it in the Developers Console: https://console.developers.google.com/project/your_project_name/appengine/settings/domains
If you need SSL (= https) then you must first add the domain as an alias domain in your Google Apps account. Then you can go back to above link and map it to AppEngine instances.
I recently purchased a domain with Yahoo Domains for my GAE app. Where I managed to get the domain mapped into my GAE account.
Now, since GAE does not support naked domains, I just placed the CNAME for www to point to Google App Engine.
Everything works fine now, i.e. my app can be accessed through http://www.my-example-domain.com
The problem is with naked domain (with Yahoo), I am trying to forward the naked domain http://my-example-domain.com to http://www.my-example-domain.com however, the domain manager is complaining that the forward is not possible.
What could be the problem that forward is not possible? Also, is there a way to solve this in GAE management console, since Yahoo domain manager seems to not able to handle this.
Hi Please try to do the following changes from your Google Apps Admin Console.
Go to this URL for Domain Management Settings in Google Apps Console.
Under the Domain Management. Click on change redirect and add www.example.com. Also check the attached screenshot for the same.
Also follow the instructions provided in the URL change A record below change redirect url.
After making these changes you will see the URL will get redirected automatically.
can i point
http://www.mycustomdomain.com
to
http://myapp.appspot.com
using cname record or other gimmicks ? I do not want to use google apps.
it is possible ?
If you don't want to use Google Apps, you could serve redirects to your appspot address from another HTTP server somewhere. You cannot do this with DNS settings alone without Google Apps; the server needs to know which application to serve for a given request URL, and if the domain isn't a Google Apps domain, you can't configure this. Note that if you use redirects, the user will not see your domain name when visiting your app; once they're redirected they'll be viewing at an appspot.com address.
Are you aware that there's a free level of Google Apps service, that you could set up only to serve App Engine apps?