Thanks for looking in! I’m not very good with networking, so sorry if this is a dumb question.
I am running a front-end webapp on a VM (with a static IP) provisioned through GCE. I can see the app in any browser by hitting the IP address directly. I have gotten a domain name via Google Domain, and set it up with my VM using the following tutorial (followed exactly, except I’m running my own app instead of ‘Hello World’).
https://cloud.google.com/dns/docs/tutorials/create-domain-tutorial
However, when I try to access the app via the domain name, browsers (I tried 4 different ones) will not allow me to try to hit it using http (insecure)-- no matter what I type in, it always changes to https, resulting in an ERR_SSL_PROTOCOL_ERROR that I can’t get around. I’d like to avoid buying certs (moving from http to https), since this is a tiny app that accepts no personal information that I made just for me and a few of my friends to use.
I tried reaching out to Google Domains, and they said I should refer to Google Cloud support because they think it must be a problem with my Cloud DNS set up.
Does anyone have any ideas that could help? Thanks!