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tipsywacky
tipsywacky

Reputation: 3464

Google app engine: Is it possible to allow users to add their own domain for a Multitenancy app?

I have been researching on how to let users add their own domain with GAE application.

The closest things that I got are:

https://cloud.google.com/appengine/docs/python/multitenancy/

https://cloud.google.com/dns/getting-started

Running Google App Engine application on multiple customer domains

But I'm quite confused. So my questions are:

Say my app is myapp.com and I have a user with myapp.com/?name_space=user1. User1 has a domain called user1.com and want to forward myapp.com/?name_space=user1 to user1.com.

Is it possible to use cloud dns to modify the CName and A records to let users to forward myapp.com/?name_space=user1 to user1.com?

What are the options here? I've heard about dnsmadeeasy is a possible solution, but I'm not sure if it'd work. Because that means you need some api to modify the A record of dnsmadeeasy?

Can anyone give me some directions, tutorials or ideas? Any help will be grateful.

Upvotes: 3

Views: 330

Answers (1)

Jeff Deskins
Jeff Deskins

Reputation: 1660

You can add a custom domain for App Engine through Google Domains.

With the domain registered through Google Domains, they provide an interface to point the domain to a particular App Engine ID using Google Synthetic Records.

More info on Google Domains can be found at:

https://domains.google.com/about/features.html

You can then point user1.com to your APP_ENGINE_ID.

Google Domains at this time is in Beta - but they have been sending invites out. I have successfully used this to host a custom domain on one of my app engine accounts.

One thing to note, https isn't currently supported using the custom domain and an issue has been created. https://code.google.com/p/googleappengine/issues/detail?id=8528

Upvotes: 2

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