Is there a way to set up an appengine web application to deploy on a website without making the user type in www.url.com?
I have it deployed to www.url.com but url.com does not work.
Is this possible with appengine?
AppEngine does not currently support naked domains.
The best that you can do right now is set up your naked domain name to automatically redirect to the www. version.
Useful Links:
Google Code Issue requesting support for Naked Domains
Nick Johnson's explanation for why the restriction exists
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I am trying to figure out whether to use Google App Engine or other available PaaS. During my research, I am trying to figure out if a particular website using google app engine or not - Is there any known method to figure this out ?
Sorry for the basic question, but appreciate any help. Thanks.
You can recognize a GAE-based site based on the server's domain:
*.appspot.com - default domain of standard GAE apps
*.appspot-preview.com - default domain of newer flex GAE apps
custom domains mapped to ghs.google.com or ghs.googlehosted.com. See step 5 in the Adding a custom domain for your application procedure and how does ghs.google.com work?. Note that I'm unsure if this doesn't also apply to other Google products, not only to GAE.
There may be other such domains as well.
You can also check the Server header in the responses coming from the site. From Headers added or replaced:
Server
Set to Google Frontend. The development server sets this to
Development/x, where x is the version number.
ping the domain and if you have something with ghs.googlehosted.com:
PING ghs.googlehosted.com (216.58.213.147): 56 data bytes
It's a GAE application. You can also check the headers in requests from your browser's dev tools.
I'm trying to use a subdomain to serve a matching version id with Google App Engine and Google Apps. I've gone through the documentation but it's still unclear to me.
On this page regarding custom domains, it says I'm in a special case for using Google Apps. test.example.com -> to load "test" version of the application.
https://cloud.google.com/appengine/docs/domain -
Note that the instructions on this page are for App Engine apps that use an ordinary HTTP connection and are not served through Google Apps. Here are some related procedures that require different instructions:
This leads me to here https://support.google.com/a/answer/91080
It looks like the only way to add this subdomain in Google Apps is the Sites URL field.
Will the Sites URL correspond to the App Engine version ID?
You only need to use Google Apps to map an appengine app to a domain if you need https. Right now, Google Apps is the only way you can upload an SSL cert - hence this restriction.
If you do map your appengine app to a domain through google apps, you can do what you want by using wildcard subdomain mapping. Read more here..
The whole process is tedious, slow, and painful, and thats only when its not confusing, so put aside a good few hours to make all the changes and wait for DNS to propagate.
I know this might be a duplicate question, but there was no precise answer to the question :
Can i map my appspot application URL to a non google apps domain ?
The precise answer is no! If you want to use a custom domain, it has to be a Google Apps domain. See here for info -> https://developers.google.com/appengine/docs/domain
Since today is now possible to assign any custom domain (no Google Apps required) to an App Engine app. In the Google Cloud Developer Console, go to App Engine -> Settings -> Custom domains
Google Apps is still required if you want to set up SSL via SNI.
See: https://plus.google.com/+RalfRottmann/posts/JNVz2TADgMb
I have a domain I bought (via godaddy.com) - let's call it xyz.com
I have an gae app - let's call it xyzweb.appspot.com
I added a masked redirect at godaddy dns management console and now xyz.com gets redirected to xyzweb.appspot.com (even though the address bar shows xyz.com)
This stops working well in some cases like when I give a direct url redirect like href='/static/url/tohelppage.html' or when I attempt to redirect for OAuth authorization. So I read other posts on what I need to do and the most referred one was https://developers.google.com/appengine/docs/domain.
Based on that page it appears that it is necessary to sign up for a new Google Apps account with the new domain name?
So I Have to pay for Google Apps separately beyond what I am paying for Google AppEngine?
And also manage a separate apps domain and its services? I already have google apps domains and this seems more overhead to run a small app on gae.
Could you please help me understand if I've understood this right? And if there is a way to avoid the additional overhead of an extra google apps account?
The way that I do this, is I set up a basic google apps account (which is free), and I link the GAE app to my google apps account. Then you can set google apps to alias "www" to the appengine app, and now your appengine app works on www.yourdomain.tld
It's explained more here, which I know you already looked at, but it explains it well. Try reading it again.
I'm trying to map my (naked) domain to an app.
I found this.
I'd like to map my app to http://myurl.com (also known as a naked
domain).
Due to recent changes, Google App Engine no longer supports mapping
your app to a naked domain. If your domain registrar supports URL
redirects, you can redirect from http://yourdomain.com to your app,
which can be served from domains like http://www.yourdomain.com or
http://appid.yourdomain.com.
For instructions on how to configure a redirect for your Google Apps
domain, please see the article on URL forwarding.
Now I'd like not to resort to redirection. I understand udacity.com is hosted on appengine and they seem to use a naked domain.
So, I;m hoping this is just typical bad documentation or not updated. Does anybody have any info on how Udacity solves this problem or how could I produce such a behaviour?
AFAIK AppEngine cannot be map to a naked domain, you can have a proxy mapped on your naked domain they will proxy into the application.
What most applications do is use forward from the naked domain to www where the application is mapped. GoDaddy supports that GoogleApps supports that and various other free and paid DNS services support that.