Google Appengine & google Apps - mapping www.mydomain.com to my-app-id.appspot.com

Question

This must have been discussed number of times.. but honestly i did so much googling around but it is impossible find a proper answer.

First i built an app using appengine. Then I went to Versions tab in my appengine and tried to Add domain, which led me to buy the domain using google apps. Once I bought it, i'm lost totally. How do I map my appengine application to www.mydomain.com. I'm not asking about naked domain (http://mydomain.com). that is the least of my problem.

I can see myapp.appspot.com as a service under google apps account. But, how do I map it to www.mydomain.com? Currently it is getting mapped a "google sites" generated page.

Please advice.

Answer 1

A quick guide to domain name setup on Google App Engine: http://aralbalkan.com/1466

Are you looking for this.

Answer 2

The details on how to set it up is here

http://code.google.com/appengine/articles/domains.html

If you want it to map to www. then put 'www' where they have 'my-app-id' in the last image.

Answer 3

Not having bought a domain through Google, I don't know if they provide DNS configuration. But what you need to do is to configure the DNS for your domain, so that it has a CNAME entry for the subdomain(s) you want to point to your application. It would look something like this:

Subdomain | Type  | Data
www       | CNAME | ghs.google.com.

Then, in the App Engine part of the Google Apps administration for your domain, you would click "Add new URL" and put "www" in the text box and press "Add".