AppEnginge dispatch.yaml url

Question

I have this:

 - url: "awesome.com/*"
         service: awesome

  - url: "www.awesome.com/*"
          service: awesome

Is possible to do this? to achieve same as above?

 - url: "*.awesome.com/*"
         service: awesome

Answer 1

No, what that last option you mentioned would do is map all subdomains of awesome.com to the service awesome, as you can see in this example corresponding to mapping subdomains in the documentation.

Here you have more information about mapping custom domains.

Answer 2

Yes, it's possible to do that. But it won't be equivalent with what you have now:

• it won't match your top-level domain awesome.com which is matched by your current 1st rule
• it'll match any <blah>.awesome.com subdomain, your current set of rules only matches the www.awesome.com subdomain

If indeed you want to send requests for both the full domain as well as all its subdomains to the awesome service you can achieve that simply by the custom domain mapping/config itself (which you need to do explicitly for the domain and each subdomain anyways), no need for a dispatch file. Note that you'd still need to deploy a default service, see Why do I need to deploy a "default" app before I can deploy multiple services in GAE?. Might as well just let the awesome service be the default one in this case, less confusing and less room for trouble IMHO.