Forward naked domains

Question

I recently purchased a domain with Yahoo Domains for my GAE app. Where I managed to get the domain mapped into my GAE account.

Now, since GAE does not support naked domains, I just placed the CNAME for www to point to Google App Engine.

Everything works fine now, i.e. my app can be accessed through http://www.my-example-domain.com

The problem is with naked domain (with Yahoo), I am trying to forward the naked domain http://my-example-domain.com to http://www.my-example-domain.com however, the domain manager is complaining that the forward is not possible.

What could be the problem that forward is not possible? Also, is there a way to solve this in GAE management console, since Yahoo domain manager seems to not able to handle this.

Answer 1

Hi Please try to do the following changes from your Google Apps Admin Console.

Go to this URL for Domain Management Settings in Google Apps Console.

Under the Domain Management. Click on change redirect and add www.example.com. Also check the attached screenshot for the same.

Also follow the instructions provided in the URL change A record below change redirect url. After making these changes you will see the URL will get redirected automatically.