Google Apps Email
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Hello,
I have a blog, http://thebutterstick.wordpress.com that paid to have a domain name for, called http://thebutterstick.com. It is a GoDaddy account. I have had Google Apps functioning since March, basically for the email (email visible only to moderators and staff).
What I want to do through Google Apps (because it’s an option) is change my Google Apps addresses from the long default URL to the short custom subdomain. Like instead of http://mail.google.com/a/thebutterstick.com I want http://mail.thebutterstick.com. Google Apps says “To enable your custom URLs, you must create CNAME records with your domain host.”
Last time I browsed around the support a few months ago, I was disappointed to here that WordPress did not allow this function for some reason. Is this still the case today, after the WordPress upgrade? If it’s not, and I can change the URL, how would I go about doing it exactly?
Thank you for the support. I had to ask a question because all of the topics I looked up were either not answering my question for were from 2007.
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Nevermind. That’s not going to work because you have the namservers pointed here.
I just don’t think there is any way to do it here. DNS control seems to be associated with the domain host.
I wonder if you had the domain parked at GoDaddy, added subdomain that was pointed here, if you could then use the DNS control there to put the CNAME record in.
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vivian is right. In the WordPress FAQ on setting up Google Apps, it says that “Custom URLs are not supported.”
See the FAQ here:
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Aww, I thought WordPress was going to reform that. It doesn’t makes sense that I paid for both WordPress hosting and a GoDadday domain name… yet I’m not allowed to have a custom URL. Where is my money going?
Thanks for the replies.
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