Thanks for the response Adam. I'm actually gonna transfer my domain away from GoDaddy altogether...I just initiated the domain transfer this morning so it will be a few days before it's completed. I still have no idea why their UI said I had added the TXT record successfully, but it didn't stick for whatever reason. Even so, I'm not sure why I'd actually need that TXT record. I bought the domain through Google (which used GoDaddy as the registrar) and I don't remember needing to do anything further to verify the domain when I set up my app (and I'm not using SSL). That being said, I set this up over 5 years ago I think so I might be forgetting something.
Ignoring DNS for the moment, the 404s are puzzling, and I couldn't find any log messages in the Google Cloud Log Viewer that tipped me off as to why they suddenly started. Everything worked fine locally when running with dev_appserver.py. My best guess was that something recently got deprecated that I was using, so I decided to try to update my app to more modern libraries (my app was still using Python 2.5). I'm now down the rabbit hole of actually trying to upgrade everything to see if that fixes things. I'm also adding extra logging to my app to see if I can figure out where the 404 gets triggered. Not sure if you have the ability to look, but is there likely a good way to figure out what's causing the 404s other than just adding extensive logging? The app-engine console shows me nothing useful that I can find other than the graph of 404s, and like I said everything works locally. I tried curling as well to see if you send back any debug headers but didn't see anything. Thanks. On Sunday, February 28, 2016 at 12:21:27 PM UTC-8, Adam (Cloud Platform Support) wrote: > > As a follow up, it's also a good idea to double check your Developers > Console settings > <https://cloud.google.com/appengine/docs/python/console/using-custom-domains-and-ssl> > to > make sure it's set up properly. > > On Sunday, February 28, 2016 at 3:17:52 PM UTC-5, Adam (Cloud Platform > Support) wrote: >> >> You can see that the domain is still hosted on GoDaddy's servers if you >> do a 'dig <http://linux.die.net/man/1/dig>' on the domain or use a site >> like network-tools.com to do a lookup on the domain: >> >> ;ANSWER >> bigriddles.com. 3599 IN NS ns50.domaincontrol.com. >> bigriddles.com. 3599 IN NS ns49.domaincontrol.com. >> >> No TXT record though. Again you can use network-tools.com or 'dig' to >> see if it's there. If the record isn't being published, the Google >> verification tool isn't going to work either. >> >> It's possible that the record may not be entered correctly or there is a >> problem with GoDaddy's DNS servers or your DNS configuration. Posting a >> screen capture of how the TXT record looks in your DNS control panel may >> help. >> >> On Sunday, February 28, 2016 at 10:50:48 AM UTC-5, jhf555 wrote: >>> >>> Latest update: GoDaddy won't let me add the TXT record...it says it's >>> being added but when I refresh (even a day later) per the instructions on >>> https://support.google.com/quickfixes/answer/6252336?hl=en&rd=1, the >>> record isn't actually there. I'm not sure if this is because Google itself >>> is managing the DNS account and I can't make certain changes...whatever it >>> is, it's confusing. >>> >>> I also tried upgrading my app to use Python 2.7 (from 2.5) and >>> redeploying but this still causes 404s. >>> >>> Next step is going to be transferring my domain away from Google/GoDaddy >>> to see if I can actually control the DNS. >>> >>> On Saturday, February 27, 2016 at 3:09:35 PM UTC-8, jhf555 wrote: >>>> >>>> I've added a TXT record for my domain as per the other post, though it >>>> doesn't work (at least not yet). Would appreciate some help from someone >>>> at Google. Thanks! >>>> >>>> On Saturday, February 27, 2016 at 2:50:22 PM UTC-8, jhf555 wrote: >>>>> >>>>> I scrolled down to posts from the day this started happening to me and >>>>> it looks like it hit others as well. I'll try out their fix: >>>>> https://groups.google.com/forum/#!msg/google-appengine/LhQ2NEydn0w/tt6v0-RzBAAJ >>>>> >>>>> On Saturday, February 27, 2016 at 2:45:13 PM UTC-8, jhf555 wrote: >>>>>> >>>>>> I run a website on App Engine and since what looks like Feb 18 it has >>>>>> just been returning 404s. I haven't changed anything that I know if in >>>>>> quite a while so I'm not sure why this would suddenly have started. And >>>>>> if >>>>>> I visit the "appspot" version of the site directly, it works fine. The >>>>>> sites are: >>>>>> >>>>>> 404ing: >>>>>> http://www.bigriddles.com/ >>>>>> >>>>>> And here's the working version: >>>>>> https://bigriddles-hrd.appspot.com/ >>>>>> >>>>>> I'm digging around the app engine console but don't see anything >>>>>> obvious yet. My billing info looks up to date. DNS for www.bigriddles >>>>>> appears to be pointing to the right place. The Quota page isn't showing >>>>>> any obvious issues for being over quotas. Any ideas what could be wrong? >>>>>> >>>>>> Thanks, >>>>>> Jonathan >>>>>> >>>>> -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Google App Engine" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to google-appengine+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. To post to this group, send email to google-appengine@googlegroups.com. Visit this group at https://groups.google.com/group/google-appengine. To view this discussion on the web visit https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/google-appengine/fb7143e1-2975-4dd8-b9eb-57af76c83e76%40googlegroups.com. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
