Today I'm going to discuss about an amazing topic for Blogger user. How to setup custom domain on blogger. Blogger is most popular free blogging Platform. This service totally free. Anyone can create blog from this platform without any cost but Blogger provide us subdomain blogspot.com. If you want you can use your custom domain on your blogger blog. Most of blogger don't know how to setup custom domain on blogger. Below I will discuss How to setup custom domain on blogger step by step with picture.
Here we are using setup for GoDaddy.com , the most popular domain name provider. If you want You can use any other Domain Name provider. For custom domains from other sites, the steps are almost same, so don't vanish.
Step 2. Click on your blog and then go to "Settings", choose "Basic".
Step 3. Under "Publishing" section, click "+ Setup a 3rd party URL for your blog".
Step 4. Under "Third-party domain settings" next to "http://" type your domain that you just purchased and make sure that you don't forget to add the "www" prefix to the domain name.
Step 5. Click "View settings instructions" to get the blogger's official instructions. On the Blogger instruction page, choose the "On a top-level domain (www.example.com)" option.
Step 6. Under the point 9 of instructions, 4 IP addresses will be given, copy and save all 4 of them.
Step 7. Go back to your Blogger Settings and press Save. It won't get saved and an error will appear saying 'We have not been able to verify your authority to this domain. Error 32.'
Step 8. Under the error, you will see two fields "Name, Label or Host Field" and "Destination, target, or Points To" field. Copy data of both rows from these fields.
Step 9. Now log in to your GoDaddy.com account and click on "My account" on the upper right corner > select "Manage my Domains".
Step 10. Here you should see your purchased domain name > just click on your domain name.
Step 11. Click on the "DNS Zone File" tab next to Settings and choose "Use Classic DNS Manager".
Step 12. Next, click the "Edit" button to edit your DNS Zone File.
Step 13. Under the "CNAME (Alias)" menu, click "Quick Add" button at the bottom of the screen (see image 1 in the below screnshoot).
Step 14. In the Edit box that now appeared, enter "www" in the first box and "ghs.google.com" in the second.
Step 15. Click "Quick Add" again and enter details from second row of the data we saved in step 8.
Step 16. Under the "A (Host)" menu, again choose Quick Add (see the below image).
Step 17. Host will be @ and the "Points to" value should be the one provided by Google IPs, saved in step 6 above. These are the Google IPs that you should get:
216.239.32.21
216.239.34.21
216.239.36.21
216.239.38.21
Step 18. Add all 4 of them one by one and delete old host as you won't need it anymore.
Step 19. At the top of the page, click on the "Save Zone File" button to save your setings.
Step 20. Now go back to Blogger and try to save settings again. The registration process takes 24-48 hours, so don't worry if you get an error again. Come again later to Blogger after 24-48 hours, repeat step 2 to 4, press Save and the error should be gone.
Step 21. After your URL starts working, click on the "Edit" link next to domain name on setting page.
Step 22. Check the "Redirect... to..." checkbox below your site address to ensure that even if the visitors will miss out the www part, they will still be able to reach your site.
Step 23. And that's it. Enjoy your new URL!
Here we are using setup for GoDaddy.com , the most popular domain name provider. If you want You can use any other Domain Name provider. For custom domains from other sites, the steps are almost same, so don't vanish.
SetUp Custom Domain on Blogger
Step 1. Login to your Blogger account at www.blogger.com .
Step 2. Click on your blog and then go to "Settings", choose "Basic".
Step 3. Under "Publishing" section, click "+ Setup a 3rd party URL for your blog".
Step 4. Under "Third-party domain settings" next to "http://" type your domain that you just purchased and make sure that you don't forget to add the "www" prefix to the domain name.
Step 5. Click "View settings instructions" to get the blogger's official instructions. On the Blogger instruction page, choose the "On a top-level domain (www.example.com)" option.
Step 6. Under the point 9 of instructions, 4 IP addresses will be given, copy and save all 4 of them.
Step 7. Go back to your Blogger Settings and press Save. It won't get saved and an error will appear saying 'We have not been able to verify your authority to this domain. Error 32.'
Step 8. Under the error, you will see two fields "Name, Label or Host Field" and "Destination, target, or Points To" field. Copy data of both rows from these fields.
Step 9. Now log in to your GoDaddy.com account and click on "My account" on the upper right corner > select "Manage my Domains".
Step 10. Here you should see your purchased domain name > just click on your domain name.
Step 11. Click on the "DNS Zone File" tab next to Settings and choose "Use Classic DNS Manager".
Step 12. Next, click the "Edit" button to edit your DNS Zone File.
Step 13. Under the "CNAME (Alias)" menu, click "Quick Add" button at the bottom of the screen (see image 1 in the below screnshoot).
Step 14. In the Edit box that now appeared, enter "www" in the first box and "ghs.google.com" in the second.
Step 15. Click "Quick Add" again and enter details from second row of the data we saved in step 8.
Step 16. Under the "A (Host)" menu, again choose Quick Add (see the below image).
Step 17. Host will be @ and the "Points to" value should be the one provided by Google IPs, saved in step 6 above. These are the Google IPs that you should get:
216.239.32.21
216.239.34.21
216.239.36.21
216.239.38.21
Step 18. Add all 4 of them one by one and delete old host as you won't need it anymore.
Step 19. At the top of the page, click on the "Save Zone File" button to save your setings.
Step 20. Now go back to Blogger and try to save settings again. The registration process takes 24-48 hours, so don't worry if you get an error again. Come again later to Blogger after 24-48 hours, repeat step 2 to 4, press Save and the error should be gone.
Step 21. After your URL starts working, click on the "Edit" link next to domain name on setting page.
Step 22. Check the "Redirect... to..." checkbox below your site address to ensure that even if the visitors will miss out the www part, they will still be able to reach your site.
Step 23. And that's it. Enjoy your new URL!
