UPDATE 12/05/07: There is another solution that bypasses having to set up domain forwarding! Read about it here: http://www.compender.com/2007/12/setting-up-blogger-for-custom-domains.html
The following guide will show you how to get Blogger working properly with a GoDaddy hosted domain. Both "yourdomainname.com" and "www.yourdomainname.com" will point properly to your Blogger hosted blog.
Step 1: Have a Blogger hosted blog. E.g. "yourblogname.blogspot.com"
Step 2: Have a GoDaddy parked domain. E.g. "yourdomainname.com"
Step 3: Turn domain forwarding on within GoDaddy's settings and forward it to your blog on Blogger. E.g. http://yourblogname.blogspot.com
Forwarding may not be active for an hour or two. If eight hours goes by and your domain is not properly forwarding, file a ticket with GoDaddy support and they will get it working.
Step 4: Set up a CNAME referral for www under GoDaddy's total control to ghs.google.com
Step 5: Setup custom domain on Blogger by going to Settings->Publishing and entering your www.domainname.com address.
IMPORTANT: If you have Google Apps running for your domain, such as Gmail for Domains, you MUST login to http://google.com/a/ and disable Web Pages before blogger will allow you to publish to a www subdomain.
Conculusion:
If all is setup correctly, www.yourdomainname.com is now hosting your blog. Yourdomainname.com bounces to yourblogname.blogspot.com which bounces back to www.yourdomain.com. All of this is completely transparent to your users and whether they remebmer www or not no longer matters.
Friday, November 30, 2007
Setting up Blogger for custom domains on GoDaddy
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Thanks. I will try this. How does this affect the page search ranking? I used a masked forward (that was the option in Yahoo domain hosting that hides the blogspot address)so hope this doesn't affect my search engine ranking.
Great post! This answered all my questions after a few hours of searching elsewhere. Thank you!
i just did this (about 12 hours ago) and now when i try to go to my site ig the "problem loading page, can't find the server" error message. is this normal in the interim when the settings are getting...settled? thanks.
I am having the same problem as above..
I'm having the same problem too
Just amazing! Thank you very much for your help. I posted in your other post a comment stating that this took me five minutes with your help, and I spent around twenty four hours asking GoDaddy & Blogger and still was getting no where (or getting into a deeper hole). Like I said, you will be thanked in my next blog post.
Thanks worked great .... just a note, DNS update takes time ... you'll need to wait for the update to take.
Well Blogger sucks more and more every day. Today bx-f42977 error code is the new one. it's impossible to remove the blog (WTF!!!) or to come back to your custom domain
Thanks , Clean and Simple !
Thanks, great help!
Finally, success! Following your instructions, I succeeded, after literally months of frustration. Thank you very much for your help. I cannot for the life of me understand why Blogger and Google Apps do not provide this information up-front. I think sometimes Google uses the word 'Beta' to cover up sloppiness and lack of attention to detail. Blogger should be integrated with Apps for Your Domain by default, not by massive user effort, research, and tinkering. But then, I guess this is what separates the geeks from the nerds.
Thanks for your tutorial, but I still having a problem and I been looking everywhere without finding an answer. When I try to redirect my blog from http://mydomain.com to http://wwwmydomain.com it tells me another blog is hosted at that address. I get most of the time a 404 message when I type the www. it kind of goes on and off.
I have been looking on blogger help and forums for over 2 months now without getting help.
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