Neohawk.Info

As I commented, I think I have figured out to use a private domain with google apps. I found as I was trying to figure out why this was so hard for me to get my head around, my eyes I kept re-reading Jannis’ comment on the original post. Besides the fact that I could get it to work with google pages, I couldn’t get it to work anywhere else — Calendar, Sites, etc.

To quickly review, I followed this documentation. I added google pages from the control panel, logged into godaddy, forwarded to the domain to www.neohawk.net, masked it, and set the @ to 64.202.189.170. This worked. But all the other apps would redirect to google’s domain in the location bar.

Okay, the key in Jannis’ comment was the domain masking. I could figure out how to do it with “naked” domain(above). And I just kept thinking there has got to be a way to do it with other ones, that it really couldn’t be that they limited you to one.

So for the first time, I looked more closely at the GoDaddy screen. And I noticed “add subdomain”.

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Ah ha! And so I made the connection between Jannis’ comment about masking, and thought I’d give masking a “subdomain” a try. Then I read this help document on godaddy. Turns out it was real easy. Add a subdomain called “calendar”, forward it to the google app url(google.com/a/neohawk.info/calendar/render) and mask the domain.

If you already have ‘@’ defined as 6x.xxx.xxx.xxx, adding a subdomain called “calendar” creates an A record pointing to 6x.xxx.xxx.xxx. Wait a little bit and it works. My subdomain box now looks like this:

And my A records looks like this:

Each “subdomain” is forwarded to the following:

Each of these is “masked”

From what I have tested so far, it works for sites, calendar, googlepages, and the start page.

Issues

Unfortunately, there are couple of issues I see. First off, both “docs” and “mail” redirect to google.com domains, even with the above. I am not sure why that is. Perhaps these two need a different setting? If you know, let me know.

I will do a separate post on some of the other issues I have with Google Apps.