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within the Google Apps for Non-Profits environment

As far as I know, google does not offer any hosting that will allow you to put up a CiviCRM and Wordpress site. But I do know lots of organisations that use Wordpress for their website, CiviCRM for their CRM and google apps for their mail, calendars, google docs, etc.

What you are asking is kind of broad, so kind of hard to answer.  You might want to try asking more specific questions, or if you just want to chat to people about their CiviCRM experiences more generally, maybe try https://www.civicrm.org/ambassadors/contact

Hope that is helpful,
Michael

So far, this has been a successful effort .  I have WordPress and CiviCRM installed on the local Google App Engine (GAE) environment, running with one issue:  GAE does not allow PHP/CURL, which seems necessary for cron jobs and news updates.  Research indicates that there are alternatives, but coding such for CiviCRM is beyond my current level of knowledge / capability.  If anyone out there knows how to set up WGET as an alternative for CURL, I'd appreciate a return contact.  My next step is to deploy the local setup to the GAE infrastructure and see how things work there.  Feedback and comments welcome.  If a Wiki page about the setup process would be useful, I've kept notes and could put up such a page.  Let me know what you think.

Don, sorry for the long delayed response... 

Here's the current status:  Google has implemented PHP cURL in a beta implementation of the App Engine environment.  I ran my configuration through the updated environment and got a fatal error, which I reported to Google.  Over the past weekend, while away from home, I got a reply on my report identifying a missing Microsoft DLL, with instructions for loading the DLL.  When I get home later this week I will give the fix a try and report results here.  I am still keeping notes on my process and will post them to the Wiki when I achieve success.

Happy Thanksgiving!

Don Hirst
 

Hi, It's been a while since I posted on this thread...  As life happens, I've given up on the Google App Engine implementation for now, and have moved over the Amazon Web Services to see if that works any better.  I'm still tracking my process and documenting as I go; when successful, I plan to update the Wiki.  Thanks for your interest.

Original post - 12 January 2015.  This update, 8 February 2015. 

OK, it's almost a month later, and I can report that the AWS EC2 implementation of LAMP / WordPress / CiviCRM is up and running.  The implementation path was pretty smooth, no major blockages along the way.  I've learned a lot, with many thanks to the community on this forum for help given.  I have to be away for about 3 weeks, but expect to share the development process document on the wiki in March / April. 

Regards,

DVH