Can appengine be used for a Saas where customers have their own subdomain or point their own custom domain to my appengine app?

[Gitted]

If my application is hosted on appengine, will it allow me to create the following:

1. Each customer will have their own subdomain like:   

   

    customer1.example.com

2. Each customer will point their own custom domain name (DNS A-Record I believe) to my app-engine-app:

   www.custom-domain1.com  => app-engine app

Is this possible currently?

Thanks!

[Barry Hunter]

On 12 May 2014 23:13, Gitted <sahme...@gmail.com> wrote:

If my application is hosted on appengine, will it allow me to create the following:

1. Each customer will have their own subdomain like:   

   

    customer1.example.com

Can set this up, in the new cloud console

http://stackoverflow.com/questions/22993969/how-do-i-use-a-naked-apex-domain-with-app-engine

(thats talking about for naked domains, but the same procedure should wor for any domain - even its technically a subdomain) 

Not sure if can setup a wild-card mapping, or will have to do it for each individual subdomain. 

... you will first have to validate example.com, but the page should walk you though it. 

 

2. Each customer will point their own custom domain name (DNS A-Record I believe) to my app-engine-app:

   www.custom-domain1.com  => app-engine app

This can again be done via the same process as above. You will need to work with the owner to verify the domain so you can use it. 

while it can sort of work by adding a A record, it would be better done as a CNAME record, again the cloud console page will give you the settings. 

 

Is this possible currently?

Thanks!

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[Gitted]

Do you get a static ip address for your GAE application or is it a dynamic IP because of load balancing?

I'm not sure why I have to set anything up in the console, is should be all handled by my application code no?

e.g.  I get a request, lookup the domain in the database and then I know which customerId it is.

[Barry Hunter]

On 10 December 2015 at 15:22, Gitted <sahme...@gmail.com> wrote:

Do you get a static ip address for your GAE application or is it a dynamic IP because of load balancing?

For naked domains you should be given static IP addresses (because cant use CNAMES for most) 

For subdomains you may be given a CNAME. 

 

I'm not sure why I have to set anything up in the console, is should be all handled by my application code no?

The frontend 'load-balancers' need to know the domain -> app-id mapping. They need to know which domain(s) should be handled by your app. 

You dont get a unique ids just for your domain (perhaps unless you have VIP SSL- but will probably still to add mappings. The VIP is just for SSL Certificate selection. )

 

e.g.  I get a request, lookup the domain in the database and then I know which customerId it is.

Yes, your app may well need to do that too. 

 

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[Renzo Nuccitelli]

For data base and other related services like memcache and tasks you are going to use the namespaces API: https://cloud.google.com/appengine/docs/python/multitenancy/

[Alex Martelli]

On Thu, Dec 10, 2015 at 7:33 AM, Barry Hunter <barryb...@gmail.com> wrote:

On 10 December 2015 at 15:22, Gitted <sahme...@gmail.com> wrote:

Do you get a static ip address for your GAE application or is it a dynamic IP because of load balancing?

For naked domains you should be given static IP addresses (because cant use CNAMES for most) 

As mentioned at https://cloud.google.com/appengine/kb/?hl=en#static-ip , "App Engine does not currently provide a way to map static IP addresses to an application".

Alex

 

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