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Using the Google App Engine with My Dreamhost Registered Domain

I registered example.com using dreamhost, and currently you have a standard Wordpress blog created at www.example.com. I would like appengine.example.com to point to my Google Appengine application, but I have some difficulties with this. At the moment, appengine.example.com simply points to my regular directory on the Dreamhost server, not the Appengine application. I gave as much details as possible below - I would be very grateful for any advice.

I followed some steps provided by Google and a number of answers from the following publication: How do I use the Google app engine with my own bare domain (not a subdomain)? but I still have problems.

What I've done:

  • A new domain has been created and registered: www.example.com, set up Google Apps + Gmail. Went to Google Apps Control Panel> Domains and added domain: example.com
  • Select "Add New Domain" in the Dreamhost panel and add appengine.example.com. Despite troubleshooting, I moved between enabling "Google Apps" for this domain, rather than "I already configured it for the primary domain: example.com, so I did not know if I needed to do this for the subdomain.
  • Went to Google App Engine, selected my application> Application Settings> Domain Settings> Add Domain> Example.com Added
  • It was added to the Google Apps control panel and can see my application and added the URL: appengine.example.com. Now it is obviously available from appengine.example.com and myapp.appspot.com

At this point, appengine.example.com still just points to my standard Dreamhost directory.

Some of the tutorials discussed adjust CNAME records for your domain settings using Dreamhost; I'm not sure if this is necessary if you already set up your domain for use with Google Apps, but I also tried to do this.

Decision taken: appengine.example.com> DNS> Add custom DNS record:

  • Name: appengine
  • Type: A
  • Value: ghs.google.com

However, this does not work !! Did I do something extremely wrong? If anyone has experience with this / manual, I would really appreciate it.

Thanks ol

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Thank you very much for your help, this problem is now resolved.

In my Dreamhost domain settings, I decided to completely host the domain: appengine.example.com I needed to work with the DNS settings for example.com and, as you said, enter:

  • Name: appengine.example.com
  • Type: CNAME
  • Value: ghs.google.com

In addition to this, the lesson took about 4 hours to make appengine.example.com actually available.

For everyone who has problems, I wrote a short guide to what I did here .

Thanks again! Ol

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How long have you been waiting for the distribution of your DNS changes? Changes made to the Dreamhost control panel can take up to 24 hours to actually do this on the DNS server that you are using.

Also, note that the A record is different from the CNAME record you need.

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You need to make two cname entries. Where the host is "ghs.google.com" and the other where the host is "google.com", and an alias, which is the unique identifier of google applications, gives you.

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