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Anyone found a good tutorial for pointing mydomain.com to myapp.appspot.com ?

The process is ridiculous and horribly undocumented.

Also, custom domains can't have SSL. That's a deal killer right there for most startup projects.

I am using GAE for some basic pages. Where I would make a static page, I'm running Django. The deployment process is a breeze, and any of the pages can scale to be a proper app. I'll probably move http://kirigin.com there soon.

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You are right, it is a pretty confusing process. Here is the best docs I could find on the topic. You basically setup your domain first with Google Apps for your domain. Then you link the Google Apps for your domain account with your Google App Engine project. The additional issue is that you can't map naked domains (http://domain.com) to Google App Engine directly. Instead you have to do that within your DNS provider (I set it up in GoDaddy).

http://knol.google.com/k/larry-h/google-apps-discussion-grou...

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