This is particularly important for Facebook applications because FB Connect is tied to a specific domain name. It's impossible to test an application (which has a custom domain) against xxx.appspot.com, so it's pretty much impossible to beta test code in vivo.
Here's a related bug to star: http://code.google.com/p/googleappengine/issues/detail?id=2878 Jeff On Fri, May 13, 2011 at 5:03 PM, James M <jmort...@gmail.com> wrote: > At Google IO, one of the members of the audience asked if the App > Engine team was considering adding the ability to map a subdomain to a > specific version in an App Engine App, other than the default version. > > Currently, you can map a domain only to the default version. However, > it would be nice to be able to map a second domain to another version > in the Version Administrative panel. For instance: > > default - www.example.com - Mapped to version 5 > beta - beta.example.com - Mapped to the new version 7 > > Then in the Version panel, users would select both a default version > as well as a beta version. > > Since a picture speaks a thousand words, I've attached an example of > what this feature might look like in the Google App Engine Version > Panel: > http://commondatastorage.googleapis.com/jem/forums/AppEngineVersions.png > > There may be a way to add more subdomains to specific versions to > support more depth in managing versions, but I think this would be a > great start. > > James > > -- > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups > "Google App Engine for Java" group. > To post to this group, send email to google-appengine-java@googlegroups.com. > To unsubscribe from this group, send email to > google-appengine-java+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. > For more options, visit this group at > http://groups.google.com/group/google-appengine-java?hl=en. > > -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Google App Engine for Java" group. To post to this group, send email to google-appengine-java@googlegroups.com. To unsubscribe from this group, send email to google-appengine-java+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/google-appengine-java?hl=en.