How to use Google app engine with my own naked dom

Question

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.com

What does not work:

• myowndomain.com
• www.myowndomain.com

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?

Answer 1

You must try like this, Application Settings > Add Domain...

Answer 2

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

Answer 3

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!

Answer 4

[Update April 2016] This answer is now outdated, custom naked domain mapping is supported, see Lawrence Mok's answer.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.com (but www.whatever.com 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.com to your app, which can be served from domains like http://www.yourdomain.com or http://appid.yourdomain.com.

as specified at http://www.google.com/support/a/bin/answer.py?answer=91080

Answer 5

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 !

Answer 6

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.