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user1152327
user1152327

Reputation: 149

Domain forwarding to appspot.com

I have an app hosted on google app engine (app.appspot.com). I'm about to register a domain (www.example-domain.com). Is domain forwarding the easiest way to ensure vistors to www.example-domain.com are taken to my app?

Are there any drawbacks?

I looked into Google Apps and it seems like I could do it that way for $5/month and get the email address etc. Is that a better way?

Upvotes: 0

Views: 1641

Answers (4)

QueueHammer
QueueHammer

Reputation: 10824

You have to use you CNAME to redirect to your site. I do myApp.myDomain.com. The trick to this is that www. is also a CNAME. So just change you CNAME for www. for your domain to point to your app!

For the details see: http://code.google.com/appengine/docs/domain.html

Upvotes: 1

Brian Michelich
Brian Michelich

Reputation: 263

In addition to the cname record for www, you may want to handle the naked domain (domain.com). Some registrars provide a redirect service or you could use http://wwwizer.com/.

Upvotes: 0

mjaggard
mjaggard

Reputation: 2477

As stated, the best option is to set up the CNAME - as you correctly noted, you'll need a Google Apps account for this but you will only need the free version.

Also, you'll struggle to register www.appspot.com!! ;-)

Upvotes: 0

Shay Erlichmen
Shay Erlichmen

Reputation: 31928

You need to put a CNAME record on your domain DNS that will point to ghs.google.com, more info here

Upvotes: 2

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