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Andrebm
Andrebm

Reputation: 13

Google Cloud App Engine - How to create subdomains and redirect access to another file/folder?

I have a PHP5.5 module created on Google Cloud's App Engine and a SQL module on Google Cloud SQL.

Here is my PHP app.yaml:

application: myapp
version: 1
runtime: php55
api_version: 1

handlers:
- url: /.*
  script: index.php

I am really new into Google Cloud, so I need to somehow create a subdomain such as subdomain.myapp.com and when my users try to access http://subdomain.myapp.com instead of http://myapp.com, I want the server to "give" them the /subdomain/index.php file instead of the /index.php file.

Upvotes: 1

Views: 1251

Answers (1)

Dan Cornilescu
Dan Cornilescu

Reputation: 39834

Add both myapp.com and subdomain.myapp.com domains to your app in the developer console, see this Q&A: Google cloud DNS: point naked domain to www?

Add a subdomain module to your app which will serve your subdomain-specific files.

Add a dispatch.yaml file to dispatch requests based on the domain to their respective module, see this Q&A: AppEngine subdomains to modules without wildcard mapping

Note: if you use SSL and sessions with cross-domain navigation you'll need a wildcard certificate otherwise you'll encounter SSL errors.

You might be able to get away with a single module (lower instance uptime usage/costs) if you tolerate distinct paths in your urls, like this http://subdomain.myapp.com/subdomain/index.php - in your /index.php you'd need to parse the domain in the requested url and if it's a subdomain one then re-direct it to the distinct path instead. No dispatch file needed in this case. Not as clean as the other solution, IMHO.

Upvotes: 2

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