App Engine Authentication Error

Question

I have an app hosted by google app engine, and I am having trouble with authentication.

When I login using my admin account and try to access the admin page or members pages, I just get a blank screen. I can login, and the members only menu shows when I login, but I just can't see any data from the members pages.

I'm not really sure where I should start checking? My app is registered with my google apps account and I am using the only admin login that is there.

Any suggestions would be appreciated.

Answer 1

It sounds like you're running into the Google Apps vs Google Accounts issue. If you have a Google Apps account listed as an administrator on an app that accepts any Google account for authentication, it won't be recognized as an administrator. You need to create a regular Google account (such as a gmail address) and use that as an admin in your app.

Answer 2

Nick, with what you said I did a little more investigation and registered a new Google Apps account with the same address as my App Engine account.

Now it works!

So is this just a bug in that if I now want to make a new app to deploy on a different domain, I would again have to go through and register a new Google App Account and corresponding App Engine account for that new domain.