I have deployed an application on Google App Engine and I want to link a Subdomian to that application.
I currently have a domain that is linked to a "live" site. from Google documentation I understand that i need to set up my domain with Google Apps:
To serve your app on a custom domain, the domain must be set up with Google Apps
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What exactly that mean?
I've looked in Google documentation and could get a clear idea...
Does that will effected my "live" site in some way?
just to clarify, www.mydomain.com - points a site that i own and i want sub.mydomain.com to point to my Google application.
You need to make a CNAME to forward to your app address.
Let's say your app address is https://yourapp.appspot.com, and you want sub.mydomain.com to forward to it, just do like below:
Please read THIS first, follow the steps until step 5. You'll need to type your mydomain.com in step 3, and type sub in step 5. After these, you'll some steps on how to Chang CNAME record, just follow:
set your host name to sub
Type: CNAME
IP address/host name: ghs.google.com.
Priority status: (whatever just make it's the number)
OK, and you'll visit your app by http://sub.mydomain.com, different hosting providers have different time to set it valid. :)
BTW, it'll not effect your "live" site in any way. As your main site use mydomain.com, and you just need sub.mydomain.com. What GAE said is that, if you want to set mydomain.com to your app, you need to set A type instead of CNAME type in your host. This domain hosting method includes more steps, you'll see GAE's doc that you found, and so it will effect your live site.
This means you have to register your domain with Google Apps here: https://www.google.com/a/cpanel/domain/new
You don't have to have your main website hosted on Google. Just how you arrange things is determined by how you configure your DNS which you will retain control of. Same for email you can have it delivered to Google Apps or not, depending on your DNS MX records.
You need to validate your ownership using webmasters by adding a txt record in you dns records, after that it will appears in the list of domains under App Engine > Settings > Custom domains.
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I have one Node aplication runing on default App Engine service. Its was runing on "urlFromWebSite.appspot.com", and I config it to run in my domain url "customUrl.ai".
I built a second service with Node with name "second-service",and its runing at
"service-two-doturlFromWebSite.appspot.com", but i want to run at "subDomain.customUrl.ai"
I tried dispatch.yaml file with the url that i want for 'second-service';
Stack post 1 talking about dipatch
Stack post 1 talking about dipatch
GCP explanation for dispatch
I have tried Custom domains in App Engine > Settings > Custom domains;
GCP documentation for mapping custom domains
At custom domains I config my subdomain url, and it generates the DNS. ยด
I have question here:
Where should I add this DNS config? At the "customUrl" or should i create a new record set for it?
I have been strugling with it for 2 days already, and could figure it out how to solve it. How should i config this to change my second service's url for a custom subdomain?
When user enters customUrl.ai in a browser, traffic should be routed to Google's servers (for your GAE project). To do that, you configure DNS settings on your domain registrar's end.
When user enters subDomain.customUrl.ai in a browser, traffic should be routed to Google's servers. To do that, you also configure DNS settings on your domain registrar's end.
Both #1 & #2 are done for the same domain on your domain registrar's end (which is GoDaddy in your case). I believe this is what #JohnHanley is referring to. Put another way - just go to GoDaddy, find your domain and create entries corresponding to what GAE has outlined for you. If they are duplicates, GoDaddy will tell you.
I am running a flask application on Google App Engine Standard.
I have not found a resource which states that Google App Engine provides a static IP address. I am trying to route my domain name, let's call it 'mydomain.com' to hit the google app engine endpoint, which Goole provides as something similar to https://my-appengine-name.appspot.com/
I have verified the domain with Google and selected it as a custom domain.
If https://my-appengine-name.appspot.com/ was a numerical IP address I could simply route my domain i.e. 'mydomain.com' to the numerical IP address in the A name record. However, as from what I understand app engine has dynamic IP addresses for APP engine and so this is not possible.
What are my options here to route 'mydomain.com' to Google's App Engine domain: 'https://myappenginename.appspot.com/
' then?
In addition of John comment, if you choose the root domain of your service (in the example, my own domain gblaquiere.dev, a list of IPs (and 1 CNAME) is provided and you have to update your registrar with them
If you absolutely want only one IP to register, you can create an HTTPS Load balancer in front of App Engine and create a serverless NEG backend
Although #guillaume posted correctly above I just wanted to reiterate the steps explicitly. Generally someone asking such a question is a newbie to GCloud and it helps to have explicit steps.
At the App engine dashboard click on settings.
From the settings, click on ADD Custom Domain
To add a domain you needed to verify your domain with Google already, either through adding a TXT record or another method offered by Google (if you haven't registered your domain with Google). This verification can happen almost immediately with Registrars like namecheap.com or name.com (as per my experience)
Then go back to this custom domains area in the Google App Engine console and you will be provided with a list of verified domain you can select to route to your App Engine.
Once you have done this Google will provide you with a series of A, AAAA and a CNAMe record which you will need to update at your Registrar, generally in the advanced DNS settings.
This should definitely be sufficient. I think my struggle resulted due to a problem with my deployed app which I misdiagnosed as a problem with the DNS routing. Thanks for the previous responses which assisted me.
I've looked at previous questions enter link description here, but they use the GSuite Administrator to make changes, while my app uses GCloud. The domain registrar is separate since Google domains don't work in my country.
I mainly followed this guide to setting up my Zones and updating the name servers. I've configured the
https://cloud.google.com/dns/docs/update-name-servers
The question I linked to earlier recommended setting up a www. subdomain, but it used Authenticator. I'm not sure how to do this in a zone. I set up all the records properly in my domain registrar.
Here are the settings:
When I load the site itself (There's no actual HTTP response code):
And when I try the www. subdomain
I'm sure there's a step I'm missing, but this is my first site with GCloud. So I'm not very familiar with the process.
I think where is your missing step.
When you ask Google to use your domain, Google will expose HTTPS endpoint. HTTPS requires a certificate, and Google will generate it for you. However, before doing this, Google has to be sure that the domain belong to you.
You have to prove to google that you own your domain. For this, go to this page, log in and add a property (your website URL). Follow the instruction and be sure that your property has been validated.
Then, wait some minutes (hours?) the time that the certificates are generated and deployed.
After hours of reading about and experimenting with DNS records I can access my Google App Engine app via these URLs:
myappid.appspot.com
www.myappid.myowndomain.example
What does not work:
myowndomain.example
www.myowndomain.example
I want to be able to serve my app directly off my domain and not a subdomain. I've seen apps that do this. Is there any way to do this without a URL redirect?
[Update April 2016] This answer is now outdated, custom naked domain mapping is supported, see Lawrence Mok's answer.
I have figured it out!
First off: it is impossible to link something like mydomain.example with your appspot app. This is considered a naked domain, which is not supported by Google App Engine (anymore). Strictly speaking, the answer to my question has to be "impossible". Read on...
All you can do is add subdomains pointing to your app, e.g myappid.mydomain.example. The key to get your top level domain linked to your app is to realize that www is a subdomain like any other!
myappid.mydomain.example is treated exactly the same as www.mydomain.example!
Here are the steps:
Go to appengine.google.com, open your app
Administration > Versions > Add Domain... (your domain has to be linked to your Google Apps account, follow the steps to do that including the domain verification.)
Go to www.google.com/a/yourdomain.example
Dashboard > your app should be listed here. Click on it.
myappid settings page > Web address > Add new URL
Simply enter www and click Add
Using your domain hosting provider's web interface, add a CNAME for www for your domain and point to ghs.googlehosted.com
Now you have www.mydomain.example linked to your app.
I wished this would have been more obvious in the documentation.
[update 2015-09-28] Now Google lets you add custom domains (including naked domains) and setup SSL without the need of Google Apps. For details refer to here: https://cloud.google.com/appengine/docs/using-custom-domains-and-ssl?hl=en
I just discovered today (as of 2014-04-11) a new custom domain settings page is available from Google Developers Console:
1. Go to https://console.developers.google.com/project
2. Click on your project
3. On the left click "App Engine"
4. Click "Settings"
There you go! You can configure custom domain without the need of Google App account!
[Update April 2016] This answer is now outdated, custom naked domain mapping is supported, see Lawrence Mok's answer.
See http://www.google.com/support/a/bin/answer.py?hl=en&answer=91077 for the details. Once you have signed up for Google Apps for Your Domain:
# Sign in to the Google App Engine admin console.
# Go to Administration > Versions
# Click the 'Add Domain...' button under Domain Setup.
# Enter your domain name in the 'Domain Name:' field
# Click 'Add Domain'. You will be directed to the Google Apps administrator console to complete the process.
# Log in to the Google Apps control panel with your administrator account.
# Accept the terms and specify the access URL you'd like to provide for your application.
# Click 'Accept
You can't use a naked domain, though, such as whatever.example (but www.whatever.example does work), because:
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.example to your app,
which can be served from domains like http://www.yourdomain.example or
http://appid.yourdomain.example.
as specified at http://www.google.com/support/a/bin/answer.py?answer=91080
If like me you have seen this message while trying to add 'www' as a subdomain inorder to get your own domain working:
'Already used, please remove previous
mapping first . '
The above process mentioned in other answers has changed slightly if you are using Google Apps for your domain.
You must now do this as well:
Google Apps -> Service Settings -> Sites. Click 'Web address mapping' and remove the 'www' mapping which has been added by default to Sites.
Then you can add the 'www' subdomain for your App engine app
see this link:
http://groups.google.com/group/google-appengine/web/deleting-existing-www-mapping-from-google-apps
Another solution which is given by Google is URL forwarding: http://www.google.com/support/a/bin/answer.py?hl=en-in&answer=61057
Google does offer naked domain redirection.
Login to your google apps account and select "manage this domain"
Navigate to Domain settings
Within Domain Setings, navigate to Domain names
There's a link that says "change the A record". Clicking that will give you the destination IPs for the A records you need to create.
Google does not provide an IP for us to set A record. If it would we could use naked domains.
There is another option, by setting A record to foreign web server's IP and that server could make an HTTP redirect from e.g domain.example to www.domain.example (check out GiDNS)
For App Engine in 2019, googles has made it easier to set up a custom domain.
Google App Engine -> Settings -> Custom Domains
Verify your domain
Select Your Domain Name Registra
Reminder: Use TXT Record with the value Google provides without a existing CNAME record, otherwise TXT Record will be override
Follow the steps on the page, which includes the configuration of your subdomain, CNAME Record, A Record, AAAA Record, and you'll be good to go.
Just managed to sort this finally after hours. The www subdomain was pointing to Sites, but the front end wasn't showing me that.
After taking the plunge and setting the CNAME to gwh.google.com, and enabling / disabling Sites a couple of times (see the comment from Rodrigo Moraes on http://groups.google.com/group/google-appengine/web/deleting-existing-www-mapping-from-google-apps) I was able to set the Sites address to use the www subdomain.
I was then able to change it away from using the www subdomain, at which point the appengine app allowed me to specify the www subdomain.
That is one dirty fix - basically turning on and off Sites until it works!
When you go to "Application Settings -> Add Domain" It will ask to select login account, probably you are already on gmail account so it will show gmail account as well, but you should use Google Apps account where you have mapped your custom domain.
You can redirect forward or mask your domain name in godaddy but I don't know about other hosting sites.Have a look on this link
Here is a tutorial from Google about mapping your App on custom domain: https://cloud.google.com/appengine/docs/domain?hl=FR
It should be the latest update. But please note these 2 things:
1- You may not find you App in the new developer console, then the only workaround for that is download your source code, create a new app from the new developer console and deploy it.
2- You find your App on the developer console, but under the Compute menu you may not find the App Engine Settings as mentioned in the tutorial, then you have to proceed the same as i explained in the first point (create another application)
I hope this helps !
You can create a custom domain (including naked domain) for your App Engine and you can also set up self managed SSL certificates there.
To use a custom domain, map the domain to your app, then update your DNS records. You can map a naked domain, such as example.com or a subdomain, such as subdomain.example.com. You can also use wildcards to map subdomains.
The steps to map custom domain to your application are following -
In Console,go to the Application settings tab of the App Engine Settings page
-->If you need to enable G Suite authentication then click Edit to modify the Google Accounts API Referrer-->In the Google Authentication drop-down menu, select G Suite domain, then add your domain such as example.com in the empty field.
Go to the Custom Domains tab of the App Engine Settings page--> Click on add custom Domain-->If your Domain is already verified then select it from the drop down menu-->click Continue.
If you haven't verified your domain yet, follow the steps below:
a) Select Verify a new domain from the drop-down menu.
b) Enter your naked domain name (such as "example.com") and click Verify.
c) Enter information in the Webmaster Central window that appears.
d) After you complete the steps in Webmaster Central, return to the Add a new
custom domain page in the Google Cloud Console.
In the Point your domain to (project-ID) section, specify the domain and subdomains that you want to map.We recommend mapping the naked domain and the www subdomain-->click Save mapping.
Sign in to your domain registrar web site and update your DNS records.
Please refer to the following link for detailed description of required steps -
https://cloud.google.com/appengine/docs/standard/python/mapping-custom-domains
You must try like this, Application Settings > Add Domain...
I've been fooling around with the Google App Engine for a few days and I have a little hobby application that I want to write and deploy.
However I'd like to set it up so that users are not directly accessing the app via appspot.com.
Is hosting it through Google Apps and then pointing it at my own domain the only way to go? I looked at that a little bit and it seemed like a pain to implement but maybe I'm just missing something.
My other thought was to write the app-engine piece as a more generic web-service.
Then I could have the user-facing piece be hosted anywhere, written in any language, and have it query the appspot.com url.
Anyone have any luck with the web-service approach?
The reason Google Apps is required is because you need somewhere to a) verify you own the domain (otherwise, you might point it at app engine, then I might hijack it by adding it to my account) and b) set up domain mappings (which subdomains point to which of your appengine apps).
Since this stuff already exists in Apps, it seems silly to duplicate it in AppEngine.
As has been pointed out, it doesn't cost anything, and you do not need to "move" anything to Google. You simple created a cname record with a random name to verify you own the domain, and a cname for the subdomain you wish to point at App Engine. This only takes a few minutes, and once it's done, it's done forever.
Note: If you host your site elsewhere and use webservices, you need to scale the site/frontend. If you host on app engine, you get this for free :-)
I wrote an article on my blog about redirecting *.appspot.com domains to your custom domain to keep your branding:
http://blog.dantup.com/2009/12/redirecting-requests-from-appid-appspot-com-to-a-custom-domain
To do this, I believe you need to be using Google Apps and have a custom domain setup for Google Apps. Then, you deploy your app into your Google Apps domain.
Here is google's official instructions on how to do that:
http://code.google.com/appengine/docs/domain.html
I have used this process for a couple of sites and it is easy and painless, provided you have control on the DNS records for your domain (you should).
OK, we're now at the end of 2017 and things are a lot different regarding App Engine and custom domains. It's easy now!
Go to the app engine dashboard for your app and choose Settings, then go to the Custom Domains tab. From there, choose Add custom domain.
The tricky part is that Google needs to verify that you control the domain, so they ask you to put a TXT record in the DNS for your domain. Once you do that and Google it, you become "verified" as the owner of the domain.
After that, Google will give you a bunch of A and AAAA (for IP6) records to put in your DNS. Once you've done that, you should be good to go.
It can be easily done using request.getRequestURI() method. If the URL doesn't include your domain, just redirect it to the desired URL using
resp.sendRedirect("<your domain>")
Otherwise load a error page using
request.getRequestDispatcher("<error-page>").forward(request, response);