Hi repairman, Redirects are not required in order to serve traffic from your own domain. You can simply set up Google Apps on your domain (for free), and use that to map a subdomain (for example, www.abc.com) to your App Engine app. Naked domains (abc.com) are not currently supported, but that will not impact your search engine rankings if you ensure your authoritative domain is the qualified (www.abc.com) one and people link to that. You can use your registrar's redirect service to send requests for abc.com/* to www.abc.com/*for manually entered links.
http://code.google.com/appengine/articles/domains.html -Nick Johnson On Sat, Aug 22, 2009 at 6:03 AM, repairman <alau2...@gmail.com> wrote: > > google guys, > > I don't know if you guys realize the implication of not getting a > static IP? if I have a domain (abc.com) I cannot map it to the > appspot subdomain without an IP and I have to resort to a redirect. > And search engines are not friendly to redirects. And no serious > website will ever want to redirect to blah.appsot.com it just looks > unprofessional. So this lack of static IP is preventing google app > engine from becoming actually useful like EC2 for real business. And > that's why there is no serious apps or serious ecommerce systems > running on your GAE so far despite of all the hype. It's almost > like selling a car without headlights i.e. sounds like a small miss > but it will prevent the car you are selling from being popular. no > serious person can drive only during the day time. Please don't think > of this static IP problem from the techie point of view, think from > your 'customers' perspective. This is a show stopper! GAE is such > a good concept and can revolutionize the industry but this lack of > static IP is such a spoiler! > > On Aug 6, 7:27 am, Tony <fatd...@gmail.com> wrote: > > Fair enough. I'm fine with "we're working on solutions," as long as > > it's not "sorry, wait for the world to upgrade to FF3/IE8." > > > > On Aug 6, 10:21 am, "Nick Johnson (Google)" <nick.john...@google.com> > > wrote: > > > > > Hi Tony, > > > > > We're looking into solutions. It's not as simple as it may first > > > appear - in the case of a service like Amazon EC2, your server resides > > > at only a single physical location, and so does theIPaddress you > > > rent. In contrast, App Engine apps are served from IPs at Google > > > datacenters around the globe. > > > > > -Nick Johnson > > > > > On Thu, Aug 6, 2009 at 3:18 PM, Tony<fatd...@gmail.com> wrote: > > > > > > Why not charge a monthly fee for apps to get astaticIP(like Amazon > > > > does)? Scarcity of supply seems like a bit of a cop-out to me - it's > > > > not apparent that a majority of app engine apps require this support. > > > > The customers you're losing because of this, however, are customers > > > > that plan to process e-commerce transactions online without looking > > > > like a phishing scam. Customers that make money on your service are > > > > more likely to spend money on your service. > > > > > > On Aug 5, 3:55 am, "Nick Johnson (Google)" <nick.john...@google.com> > > > > wrote: > > > >> Hi J Singh, > > > > > >> Due to the way SSL works, this is not currently possible without > > > >> allocating anIPaddress for each App Engine domain that would use SSL > > > >> - which itself isn't very practical due to IPv4 address scarcity. > > > > > >> The latest version of SSL supports using a singleIPaddress for > > > >> multiple sites with different certificates, but browser support for > > > >> this version is not yet nearly widespread enough to make it a > > > >> practical alternative. > > > > > >> -Nick Johnson > > > > > >> On Wed, Aug 5, 2009 at 5:39 AM, J Singh<j.si...@earlystageit.com> > wrote: > > > >> > For an appengine-based site, > https://abc.appspot.comiscurrentlysupported > > > >> > buthttps://www.abc.comcannotbe supported. I know there is a > technical > > > >> > hurdle to cross but didn't know if any techniques had been > proposed for > > > >> > being able to usewww.abc.comwithSSLconnections? > > > > > >> > Thanks. > > > > > >> > J Singh > > > > > >> > Managing Director > > > >> > Early Stage IT > > > >> > (978) 760-2055 > > > >> >http://www.earlystageit.com > > > > > >> -- > > > >> Nick Johnson, Developer Programs Engineer, App Engine > > > > > -- > > > Nick Johnson, Developer Programs Engineer, App Engine > > > -- Nick Johnson, Developer Programs Engineer, App Engine --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Google App Engine" group. To post to this group, send email to google-appengine@googlegroups.com To unsubscribe from this group, send email to google-appengine+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/google-appengine?hl=en -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
