Re-mapping an existing alias of my Google App Engine appspot site to a new version

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A few years ago GAE compelled everyone to migrate their apps from a master-slave datastore to a high-replication one. When that happened, an alias got created. My old project was named "myapp", the domain of the new project became "myapp-hrd" and the new URL "myapp-hrd.appspot.com" accesses the new project. But the old original URL "myapp.appspot.com" also points to it, thus the old URL is now an alias.

I have created a completely new project with a new version of my app, called "myapp-v2". Is there a way to redirect the existing "myapp.appspot.com" alias from the hrd app to the new v2 one? I could start using the new "myapp-v2.appspot.com" URL instead, but that's ugly, and I prefer to keep the old URL. I thought that there would be an easy way to modify the aliases using the Google Cloud Platform console, but if there is, I'm not finding it.

I could register a new domain, point it at the new one, and start using that, but my preference would be to be able to keep on using the same URL I always have.

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Based on this Community Answer, you are going to have to use Google Apps Domain Alias to do that, you will have to follow these steps:

That being done you freed up your alias from the first project's domain. Now you have to do the following for the second project:

Now you have to setup the alias at the App Engine configuration:

  • Go to your App Engine application dashboard
  • Go to Application Settings
  • Click Add Domain
  • Type the domain name of your primary Google Apps domain (in that case myapp-v2.appspot.com)
  • Click Add new URL
  • Select your domain alias from the dropdown list
  • Click Add
  • You will be asked to add a CNAME to ghs.google.com in your DNS configuration