Google Apps For Your Domain. Problems after Hostname change
Monday, April 27th, 2009I have my domain managed by Google Apps. Yesterday I created a new site using Google Sites and decided to have a nice hostname, say http://mynewsite.tmro.net
Said and done. I went to the control panel and defined the new URL. I saved it and it later started working as expected.
The problem I did not expect was that this was going to break all the other URLs I had previously defined. Basically mail.tmro, docs.tmro, calendar.tmro etc were all gone. No trace of them in my HOST RECORDS when logging into enom’s Domain Settings control panel.
Now I had two options:
1. set them up manually (last resort 
)
)2. sort out Google Apps.
So I went back to my Google Apps Control Panel and switched back to default mail, docs, calendar etc and then saved the settings. After that I redefined the URLs to mail.tmro, docs.tmro etc and checked my HOST RECORDS again. This time around the settings were back!
So if you run into a similar issue, don’t panic! Just redefine the URLs. Painful but at least it works.
Cheers…
p.s. the mynewsite.tmro.net still works after redefining the other URLs so it’s all good
UPDATE: It appears that the email MX records were messed up as well! Luckily after updating the MX records I received quite a few emails that had been queued so I imagine nothing got lost…
