Showing posts with label google apps. Show all posts
Showing posts with label google apps. Show all posts

Friday, March 30, 2012

Forwarding to a Website

Often people would like http://www.mydomain.com and http://mydomain.com to point to their website hosted by a 3rd party. In order to do this, configuration changes will need to be made in the resource records managed by your domain service provider. Basically you will be Forwarding or redirecting http://mydomain.com to http://my_hosteddomain.com/.


There are two basic ways of doing this. I'll cover each in their own sections.


  1. Replace the A records of you Resource Records

  2. Use Forwarding or Redirection

  3. In the 3rd section is a tool for requesting direct help from me. You will need to supply me with your domain name, login URLs, admin username(s), and passwords. I will only respond to those also using GApps. Sorry but I won't respond to those asking for help through a posted comment for this help page.





Replace the A records of you Resource Records



  1. Delete any existing A records in your DNS records. Of course document your changes.

  2. Add two A records with www and @ pointing to the IP address of your 3rd party website. Set the TTL to 1 hour.



Use Forwarding or Redirection




Log into the Domain Manager of your Service Provider. The examples beIow are for GoDaddy and eNom.



If GoDaddy is your service provider:



  • On the Domain Manager page, cIick on the link under Forwarding and enable Forwarding as shown in the screenshot below.




  • Enter the url of the home page of your website. Forwarding will result in showing the page URLs of your 3rd party website and not the GApps mydomain.com name you registered. Turning on Masking will show mydomain.com in the browser when viewing your hosted site but every page will show mydomain.com in your browser's internet address.

  • Select either 301 (moved "permanently") or 302 (Moved Temporarily). 301 is useful for speed of access and but can later be changed.


  • CIick on Total DNS Control and MX Records. See link at bottom in above Figure.

  • Change or add a CNAME of www so it points to the symbol @


  • Save the changes and WAIT for up to 48 hours for the changes to propagate to all necessary world-wide servers

  • Within the GApps control panel, reset to the default any URL using www



If eNom is your service provider:



  • Add a Host Record with @ as the Host Name, the url of the home page of your web site and URL Redirect as the Record Type. This Redirect type will result in showing the page URLs of your 3rd party website and not the GApps mydomain.com name you registered. Using URL Frame will show mydomain.com in the browser when viewing your hosted site but it will be in a frame hosted on eNom's server. You'll need to put '"target=_top"' into links leaving each page. See the eNom Help page in their Edit Host Records section for more details. Please ignore the address of the URL FRAME record as it's just an example.



  • Change or add a CNAME of www so it points to the symbol @

  • Save the changes and WAIT for up to 48 hours for the changes to propagate to all necessary world-wide servers.

  • Within the GApps control panel, reset the Custom url for Web Pages to the Default Setting, i.e. remove the www.


Special Instructions for users who purchased their domain name from Google:



  • Login to your Service provider using the Advanced DNS Settings Link within the GApps Control Panel.

  • If you see the following A Records pointing to Google Servers (216.239.32.21 and 216.239.34.21 and 216.239.36.21 and 216.239.38.21 ), delete them.

  • For GoDaddy customers: Add an A record with Host Name: @ Points to: 64.202.189.170 and TTL: 1 hour.









Additional Resources




Original Posted by Late Larry H

Tuesday, March 27, 2012

Domain Renwal Email

If you renew your domain in 2012 and get an email with a expire year of 2011 on it well that is an Bug in the email notification emails. all domains renew in 2012 will not expire till 2013

always check the date in your Google Apps control panel under domain setting tab or the whois

Advisor Ricky Post 

Real Blogger Status

Friday, March 9, 2012

Support

Please note this support access is for those who can not access control panels only. and is not for other support cases for other support case types you need the business edition for support access.

I just tried this on my test account (which also does not have a pin) and am able to submit a support request.

1)  Go to the following URL, substituting DOMAIN.COM with your actual domain name: https://www.google.com/a/cpanel/DOMAIN.COM/VerifyAdminAccountPasswordReset

2) enter a secondary email.

5) contact Google Support  if support link is not shown here then go to steps below.


Alternatively you may get a couple additional steps

5) Reset your administrator password by domain verification
6) Enter an email address and continue with verification








7) contact Google Support



 
















In the description make sure and state that you cannot access the control panel for your domain and that you have no users or admin accounts for your domain. Don't forget to tell Google Apps team your domain name.


Please note this support access is for those who can not access control panels only. and is not for other support cases for other support case types you need the business edition for support access.
Advisor Ricky Post here


Thursday, February 2, 2012

Google Apps for Admins - Reset admin password

Edits to this knol may be incorporated into the official Help Center article. Visit the following link to view the official Help Center article associated with this knol:

You will be able to reset your Admin password only if you have enabled the admin password reset feature in your control panel. If you have enabled this feature, you can reset your admin password by following these steps:

  1. Navigate to your control panel login page at https://www.google.com/a/cpanel/your_domain.com. Be sure to replace 'your_domain.com' with your actual domain name.
  • Click I can't access my account.
  • Type the letters in the picture (this is called a captcha) and click Submit.
  • You will see a confirmation message to let you know that instructions have been sent to the secondary contact you've selected in the control panel.
  • Sign in to the secondary contact email account, and click the link in the password reset message. The link is a tokenized URL unique to your account.
  • From the drop-down list, select the Administrator account to change
  • Enter and confirm the new password, then click Save new password to apply your changes.
    • Note: Passwords are strongly recommended to be at least 8 characters, especially for optimal use with IMAP or POP.

    If the link provided in the email is invalid or has expired, you''ll be redirected to the initial captcha screen to re-send reset instructions. If you've chosen to disable this auto-reset option in the control panel, please contact the support team directly for password assistance. You may experience a longer resolution time.

    Please note that the above instructions will not apply to you if:

    1. You have not enabled the password reset feature in your control panel.
  • Your secondary email address is not functioning.
  • You have more than 500 provisioned user accounts at your domain.
  • Once you regain access to your control panel, you may opt-in to the password reset feature (in case you forget your password in the future) by following these steps:

    1. Log in to the control panel.
  • Click Domain settings.
  • Click Account information.
  • In the Secondary contact section, check the box to enable the password reset feature.

  • Friday, January 13, 2012

    Custom Domain on Blog 404 fix

      Known Issues for Blogger: Custom domain security: Last week we encountered an issue that could affect Blogger users in the process of configuring a custom domain, during the verification of...

      The issue has since been resolved. If you have been unsuccessful in mapping to your custom domain during this maintenance, you may do so now. We recommend that you delete your current domain entry and re-enter it again. We will be restoring the ability to purchase a custom domain from Blogger soon.

      If you continue to experience difficulty mapping your domain, please visit the Blogger Product Forum for guidance. 


      Step1 Click on the X This will revert to your Blogspot URL
      Step2 . Go to your Settings | Basic tab. Find the area for "Publishing," and click the link to add a custom domain.

      Step 2A Click Switch to Advance Setting then  Type  www.yourdomainname.com click save

      Enter URL and save

      Step 3. Test your www.mydomain.com it should work.



      Step 3 and if you get this error Another Blog already hosted at this address go to this url for the fix
      If you get another Blog already hosted at this address you might try do this go back to your Google Apps Control panel and check your Web Mapping address in your Google Apps site

      1. Access the Site Settings screen in the Google Apps control panel
      2. Select the "Web Address mapping" tab
      3. If you see a Web Address mapping of www then delete it.
      4. Then Go back to your blog control panel and enter your www.domain-name.com
      5. Then enter the captcha then click save.
      6. The Test your domain for your blog.
      go back to your Bloggger setting and then try changed it again. to see if it work.










      If you see this error Blogs may not be hosted at naked domains


      Listed on the Blogger Known issue page Blogger known issue on the nake domain






      Unofficial Blogger Help Group click here


      Blogger Help Forum Click here


      If you Leave a comment below  be sure to include your domain name and your blog spot url  for faster troubleshoot.