Google Apps Changed Procedure; Cannot Set Up Email for Mapped Domain
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It appears that Google has changed its security procedures for email set-up through Google Apps. This thus obsoletes the WordPress set-up instructions [ setup your email through Google Apps for Domains: http://en.support.wordpress.com/domain-mapping/google-apps-email/ ].
Specifically, the verification codes generated by Google now look nothing like those in the example — and those on the actual DNS settings page. The codes actually generated by Google were rejected by the DNS Records Page.
Without access to my site’s home page code as Google recommends, and with no ftp access to the actual site, as Google suggests, I have no way to set up email connectivity for my newly mapped domain on WordPress.com. YIKES!
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Please help.
Thank you.
Don
P.S. The new format is a text string [ changed a bit here ] : google-site-verification=W4b23NEA2XjasreSwASDFLKJEQytr8oiu_n78r-PtR for pasting in the DNS record.
The blog I need help with is: (visible only to logged in users)
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I’ve tagged this thread for staff attention and hopefully they will be by shortly and reply and get things going for you.
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Have you tried entering just the verification part of the code into the field as detailed in step 7 of the guide?
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I just ran through the whole process myself and everything worked out exactly as detailed in the guide at http://en.support.wordpress.com/domain-mapping/google-apps-email/
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Thank you for confirming the set-up.
And I sure am baffled. The screen shots and procedure in that guide (which I had up on the screen) look nothing like what Google presented me with. Maybe an A/B test?
Now, because I went on to other things in the past 24 hours, Google no longer presents me with the original set-up options. It expects that I have normal site administrator rights. You know, access to the code of a page to insert something in a heading, or capacity to change a DNS setting, or capability to FTP to the site. Usual stuff. ‘cept here.
So now I’m stumped (and thwarted) twice.
I don’t know how to verify / validate the site now. As far as Google is concerned, I am a potential intruder.
Suggestions?
Thanks for your help.
Don
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For the record, I’ve been making web sites since ’94 (table row, table data). So not a neophyte. I came to WP.com because I thought it would be nice to ‘leave the driving to someone else.’
Maybe that’s a mistake. I can’t even send screen shots to this forum to show you what I saw in the Google set-up –> which was radically different than in the guide which I was staring at through the whole process (mystified at the mismatch). I simply was not presented with the options as represented in the WP support guide.
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I cleaned up the doc just a bit so it flows better.
Despite already creating the account, you should be able to start the verification again from step 7.
It is entirely possible that they are A/B testing, which is unfortunate. Assuming that the doc covers the A, I have yet to see the B. Hopefully they’ll settle on something soon.
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Thx for your responsiveness. I have gotten to the Google Apps admin page and see EXACTLY the options shown to me during initial set-up last night.
You all should take me up on my offer for a screen shot. It does not square with your current procedures. The code generated is different and your system rejects it.
You have automated for my security. So has Google. But the two are not intersecting.
Btw, this could be I-d-10-t error on my part. I am a PhD candidate but not a web security expert. I am willing to offer visual evidence…
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Screen shot available here: http://growanddevelop.files.wordpress.com/2012/01/google_apps_security_shot.png
The “Recommended Method” in the tab shown in this shot (copied verbatim from the Google Apps screen):
Recommended: Add a meta tag to your site’s home page
You can use this option if you are able to edit your site’s HTML.
Instructions:
1. Copy the meta tag below, and paste it into your site’s home page. It should go in the <head> section, before the first <body> section.
<meta name=”google-site-verification” content=”zxzxzxzxzxzxzxzxzxzxzxzxzxzxzx” />
Show me an example
2. Click Verify below.
To stay verified, don’t remove the meta tag, even after verification succeeds.Hope this helps.
How to proceed?
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Wow, that’s a very old verification screen. I hope they aren’t going back to that.
Do you have anything besides “Other” in that drop-down menu? If so, what are your options?
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The drop down is just for instructions for domain hosts such as Go Daddy, 1-to-1, etc. with customized instructions on how to insert the code on their DNS pages.
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Hm, ok then.
Try adding this to your Custom DNS panel:
MX 20 ALT1.ASPMX.L.GOOGLE.COM. MX 20 ALT2.ASPMX.L.GOOGLE.COM. MX 10 ASPMX.L.GOOGLE.COM. MX 30 ASPMX2.GOOGLEMAIL.COM. MX 30 ASPMX3.GOOGLEMAIL.COM. MX 30 ASPMX4.GOOGLEMAIL.COM. MX 30 ASPMX5.GOOGLEMAIL.COM. TXT google-site-verification=W4b23NEA2XjasreSwASDFLKJEQytr8oiu_n78r-PtR -
I receive a pop-up from WordPress.com saying
Your Google validation string should look like this:
googleffffff12345So still stuck.
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Even when you just paste that entirely into your Custom DNS panel (skipping the verification code field)?
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More specific information. The error message in the Custom DNS Records reads:
(1) google-site-verification=Q4…
1. This does not match any of the DNS record formats.
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The error message in the pop-up window reproduced in my earlier post, was triggered by pasting the Google Verification code into the WordPress verification code box.
Put very simply:
WordPress is expecting a code that looks like:
googleffffff1234
While Google is generating a code that looks like:
google-site-verification=W4b23NEA2XjasreSwASDFLKJEQytr8oiu_n78r-PtR
That’s quite a spread. ;-)
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