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BlackJack
BlackJack

Reputation: 2876

GAE App with custom domain

I recently bought a Namecheap domain and have been trying to hook it up to my GAE website. The GAE URL is domain.appspot.com and it works just fine. I have followed the instructions outlined in https://cloud.google.com/appengine/docs/domain but when I try to visit my custom domain I get an error saying:

The webpage at https://www.domain.com/ might be temporarily down or it may have moved permanently to a new web address. Error code: ERR_CONNECTION_CLOSED

I have no idea what I'm doing wrong. I have confirmed that domain.com and www.domain.com are both listed as custom domain names in the GAE console, and I've added all the IPs/CNAME stuff as specified. A dig domain.com command confirms that:

;; ANSWER SECTION:
domain.com 1234 IN  A   216.239.34.21
domain.com 1234     IN  A   216.239.36.21
domain.com 1234     IN  A   216.239.32.21
domain.com 1234     IN  A   216.239.38.21

I'm wondering if this is a HTTPS issue because trying domain.com in Safari tells me that:

Safari can't open "https://domain.com" because Safari can't establish a secure connection to the server "domain.com".

I don't want to get a cert for HTTPS but I don't see any way around the problem? How can I successfully use a custom domain with my GAE app?

Upvotes: 0

Views: 278

Answers (1)

BlackJack
BlackJack

Reputation: 2876

The problem was in my app.yaml file. I had set secure: always which was forcing https, but I didn't have a cert. Now I changed it to secure: never to require http, and it should work fine.

Upvotes: 2

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