Thanks Attila. We also ended up doing the same, I removed the existing domain and added it back in again.
One important thing to note is that we need to be doing this from the same account that is linked to the domain in webmaster tools, that part is also confusing and not clearly mentioned anywhere. On Tuesday, 28 March 2017 10:28:35 UTC+5:30, Attila-Mihaly Balazs wrote: > > Yep, the SSL interface is confusing (like, why do you have to verify the > subdomain when you already verified the root domain? In what universe do > you have control of the root domain but don't control the subdomain?). > > Anyway, when adding the domain to appengine, at the second step you *can* > remove the www one (I've done this Monday actually). So the workflow is > something like: > > - go to the setup page > https://console.cloud.google.com/appengine/settings/domains?project=<your > project> > - click "Add custom domain" > - select "Verify new domain" from the dropdown > - after completing verification in the webmaster tools, click the refresh > button > - now it will display two text boxes (as you've said) one with " > www.foo.com" and one with "foo.com" but you can use the X on "www.foo.com" > (on the right end) to remove it and leave only "foo.com" (or the other > way around). > > Ie. you don't have to add both domains suggested by Google. > > And a good point about having to be the verified of the domain in > Webmaster tools. > > Cheers, > Attila > -- 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/efcd9cc5-52d7-48fd-8814-3bc6d7cc2f10%40googlegroups.com. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
