Hi Gerard, On Sun, Oct 4, 2009 at 2:53 AM, Gerard Mason <gerard.ma...@gmail.com> wrote:
> > I have Google Apps working nicely on gerardmason.com. Thank you very > much, no complaints. > > I also have a little Servlet/JSP/PostgreSQL-based website at > wow.gedsguides.com that I have just finished porting to App Engine, > more or less. The new version is currently accessible at > http://com-gedsguides-wow-read.appspot.com/. > > So now it's time to think about switching off the old site and making > "wow.gedsguides.com" point to the GAE app. It should be fairly simple. > But there appears to be a whole rigmarole involving Google Apps that I > don't like the look of. > > It starts off badly: when I read the article at > http://code.google.com/appengine/articles/domains.html it has a main > heading "Deploying your Application on your Google Apps URL" and then > almost immediately a subheading "Deploying your application to a > domain of your choice". It sounds as though the person who wrote the > article thought that those two were the same thing. They are very much > not the same thing. I want to deploy my application on a domain of my > choice (wow.gedsguides.com); I do *not* want to deploy my application > on my Google Apps URL (gerardmason.com). > You actually can't deploy an app on the 'naked' domain. Following the steps in that article will allow you to add it to any subdomain of your domain. > > Nevertheless, I tried the first step: going to my application's > control panel and clicking the Add Domain button, then entering > "gedsguides.com" on the following page. I wasn't particularly > apprehensive: the DNS server for gedsguides.com is still pointing at > my existing ISP. What could possibly go wrong? > > Anyway, when it moved on again, I got a Google Apps login page for > user "@gedsguides.com". WTF?^H^H^H^H Goodness me! I don't have Google > Apps set up on gedsguides.com, of course (it's on gerardmason.com), so > I was unable to log in. Naturally, I don't want to set up Google Apps > on gedsguides.com - why would I, when I already have it somewhere > else? > You need to set up Google Apps for gedsguides.com, or add gedsguides.com as an alias domain on another Apps installation. If you want to go with the former option, Standard Edition is available here, for free: http://www.google.com/apps/intl/en/group/index.html . You don't need to use any services (eg, email) unless you want to. -Nick Johnson > > Is this right, or have I made a stupid mistake? Why can't I just point > wow.gedsguides.com at appspot, the way you can point arbitrary urls at > your blogger blog, for example? > > Help. > > > > -- Nick Johnson, Developer Programs Engineer, App Engine Google Ireland Ltd. :: Registered in Dublin, Ireland, Registration Number: 368047 --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ 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 -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
