Saturday, April 7, 2012
1&1 Verification.
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.
- Replace the A records of you Resource Records
- Use Forwarding or Redirection
- 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
- Delete any existing A records in your DNS records. Of course document your changes.
- 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
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
I just tried this on my test account (which also does not have a pin) and am able to submit a support request.
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.
Saturday, February 11, 2012
Map Sites to custom domain
- In your DNS
- Delete any "@" A records
- Delete any "index" A or CNAME records
- Create an "@" A record that points to 216.239.32.21
Create an "@" A record that points to 216.239.34.21
Create an "@" A record that points to 216.239.36.21
Create an "@" A record that points to 216.239.38.21
(if you cannot do all 4 do as many as you can) - Create one "www" CNAME record that points to ghs.google.com.
- In your Google Apps
- Go to http://www.google.com/a/
cpanel/YOURDOMAIN/ and complete the mappingSitesMapping?location=www& address=www - Go to https://www.google.com/a/
cpanel/YOURDOMAIN/ and add www" in the box and use the Save changes button.DomainSettingsChangeNakedRedir ect - Changed the "YOURDOMAIN NAME IN THE LINKS TO YOUR DOMAIN Name"
Saturday, February 4, 2012
Manage this domain’ link for Administrators in Gmail’s new look
If an administrator account switches to Gmail’s new look, the ‘Manage this domain’ link moves from its current location, to the Settings gear menu in the upper right of the Gmail inbox.
Blogs posts http://googleappsupdates.blogspot.com/2011/10/temporary-relocation-of-manage-this.html
http://googleappsupdates.blogspot.com/2011/11/manage-this-domain-link-for.html
Thursday, February 2, 2012
Google Apps for Admins - Reset admin password
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:
- 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.
- 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:
- You have not enabled the password reset feature in your control panel.
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:
- Log in to the control panel.