Hi App Engine team, I have an special requirement for my app engine app, it will be a consumer app where users will sign up and will be able to map their custom domain name (probably most of them none google apps users) to their own account inside my web app. let's say the web app's url is: www.mysupercoolapp.com ( an app engine app using a custom domain setup with google apps) users can create their normal accounts and will be named like: www.mysupercoolapp.com/useraccountname but I want them to be able to associate their own domain name, let's say: www.customerdomain.com to their account, so when you type www.customerdomain.com it will be an alias of www.mysupercoolapp.com and I can detect it looking at the url host name and load their account.
I know 2 ways of doing it: 1- I can make them create a google apps account with their own domain name and then tell them to add my app engine .appspot.com as a service inside their admin account and map a subdomain to this service, mysupercoolapp.appspot.com mapped to www.customerdomain.com. 2- I can create a domain alias inside my google apps account, adding manually customerdomain.com (which is not using google apps), then make them do some verification of ownership then I can map mysupercoolapp.appspot.com to a subdomain of customerdomain.com and again do dns changes... (any way I don't want to pollute my account with domains I don't own). NONE of those are in any way a good solution for my business, I don't want to force them create a google apps account and do configurations, nor do any manual stuff, it would be a horrific and bad user experience... Can you please point me how can I solve this as trasparent as possible ? be able to receive customers with their domain names (google apps users or not google apps users) and alias them to my google apps custom domain name running an App Engine app, just asking them just to change dns records (as most websites do). I came up with the idea that if you had a provisioning api to programmatically do the first solution I mentioned it could solve this in some way,but it would be wasteful to create google apps accounts just to do the mapping of custom domains... I hope you have or will have soon a solution for this. Thank you. Damian -- 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.
