Problems pointing my GoDaddy domain to App Engine (no other posts have been able to help!)

[Kevin M]

So I have a domain hosted on GoDaddy.com and I just set up Google App
Engine and Google Apps. I registered my new domain with Google Apps so
that I can see it in my dashboard and I believe I did what I needed to
do to verify I'm the owner of the domain. I added the CNAME entry in
GoDaddy for www to point to ghs.google.com and removed all others. I
set up the MX records I saw in another post so at least my email is
going where I expect it to. But, my new URL is not going to my google
app engine application for some reason. Do I need to change the Name
Servers from GoDaddy name servers to Google name servers? Do I need
A(Host) entries? I'm confused. Please help!

Sorry if this is double posted...

[风笑雪]

You only need follow these steps:

1. Go to Google Apps to register your domain and verify it.
2. Go to Google App Engine dashboard - Application Settings, click
"Add domain" to bind your domain (without www).
3. You'll be taken to Google Apps, add a url such as
www.yourdomain.com, and set its CNAME to ghs.google.com.
4. Wait for DNS updating. During this time, you can edit your hosts
file to point www.yourdomain.com to ghs.google.com, and check if it
works.

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[Kevin M]

The domain was not purchased through Google Apps, nor is it currently managed by Google Apps. I bought it and configure it at GoDaddy. Do I need to transfer management of this domain to Google Apps? I'd rather not. I set the CNAME entry at GoDaddy, but do I need to set the Nameservers to be something google specific? I only set up CNAME entries and MX entries. But it's still not working and it's been > 24 hours.

[dar]

You do not need to transfer the domain to google apps. However, it
sounds like you have not configured appengine to know about the cname
you created at godaddy.

Have you followed the instructions at this link?
http://code.google.com/appengine/docs/domain.html

[Kevin M]

Yes I have

On Nov 10, 8:31 am, dar <dher...@gmail.com> wrote:
> You do not need to transfer the domain to google apps.  However, it
> sounds like you have not configured appengine to know about the cname
> you created at godaddy.
>

> Have you followed the instructions at this link?http://code.google.com/appengine/docs/domain.html

[Simon]

If you follow the instructions on the page which Dar linked to, it
explains that you need to prove your hosting using Google Apps.

Having just been through the process myself, it basically went:

1) Create a standard Google Apps account, which is free.
2) Add your domain and prove your ownership, either through altering a
CNAME entry or by adding a page to your content.
3) Once the domain ownership has been proved, add this domain to your
GAE app through the admin console.
4) Add the custom URL to the Google Apps account, under the domains
section
5) Add the CNAME entry through your DNS admin

You don't need to use Google's DNS servers.