: Domain forwarding (GoDaddy) - Forward only / Forward with masking I am trying to configure my domain to forward to my app engine application. For the forwarding I can choose from "forward only"

@Berryessa370

I've just had a call with the GoDaddy support team and the solution took about 5 minutes. I have a Linux with cPanel, so the process migth vary with yours.

You go to "My Account", search for the Domains section and then click on Addon Domains.

Here you will fill a three fields form:


New Domain Name
Subdomain
Document Root


As long as you fill out the first and press TAB or focus out the field, it will automatically fill the other two, so just type in "yourdomain.com" (without the quotes) and finally click on Add Domain.

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@Mendez628

In Simple words forward only, means your old domain to redirect new domain home page and Forward with masking means visitors only see the url or domain they type or visit they don't know about in which domain they are accessing.

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@Heady270

Forward only -- Use 301 redirects to redirect from myDomain.com to myApp.appspot.com
Forward with Masking -- Use frames to keep the URL as myDomain.com while instructing the browser to fetch the content from myApp.appspot.com. The URL then doesn't change as you navigate the site.


Forwarding (of any type) is not what you want. You actually want your content to be served from your custom domain name.

Many hosting providers offer custom domain names as part of their service, and they have their own proprietary control panels to configure this.

For example, the Google App Engine (for appspot.com) supports this and has a help document with instructions for setting up a custom domain. Follow those instructions to have the app engine serve the content from your own domain name.

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@Bryan171

The "masking" capability uses an IFRAME. That's indeed probably not what you want.

The easiest is to have your own Apache settings, maybe with a VPS since those are pretty cheap (/mo. these days). That way you do not have to bother with such forwarding features. You can do all your setup directly in your Apache, DNS, etc.

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