tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6877276847653230209.post1380907661211067767..comments2024-02-21T23:00:46.828-08:00Comments on The Real Blogger Status - Beta: Setup Your Google Custom Domain Name ProperlyNitecruzr69http://www.blogger.com/profile/11230198051671838416noreply@blogger.comBlogger9125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6877276847653230209.post-22891268305444287482008-03-12T15:59:00.000-07:002008-03-12T15:59:00.000-07:00Josephine,I've written various procedural instruct...Josephine,<BR/><BR/>I've written various procedural instructions, but there are an almost infinite number of problems with writing an all-inclusive all-understandable version that doesn't require personal attention for some folks.<BR/><BR/>To add to that, there are at least 2 open problems right now with Google and their Custom Domain product. And many problems I can't even explain, because I don't personally know enough about how it works.<BR/><BR/>I'll try to help, if you can post in <A HREF="http://groups.google.com/group/blogger-help-howdoi/topics" REL="nofollow">Google Blogger Help</A>, and be patient with me. I'm only human though.Nitecruzrhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/08069634565746003311noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6877276847653230209.post-61506409613307138512008-03-12T13:28:00.000-07:002008-03-12T13:28:00.000-07:00oh my god, this is so frustrating! would somebody ...oh my god, this is so frustrating! would somebody do a step by step guide in very plain english because everything i've read so far is leaving my head spinning!!! a simple step by step guide with screenshots would be so useful, if the whole process is so easy then why are so many people struggling with it????<BR/><BR/>i think you can tell i am getting annoyed with this whole thing.<BR/><BR/>i bought the domain name through blogger so they were supposed to set it up automatically and they haven't so now i'm stuck with all this techno-mess! gee, thanks blogger!Josey Rebellehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/00341680432221746488noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6877276847653230209.post-62358375595995010192007-11-13T16:48:00.000-08:002007-11-13T16:48:00.000-08:00Thanks for the vote of confidence, Scott. You don...Thanks for the vote of confidence, Scott. You don't have it quite right yet, though.<BR/><BR/>The "www" alias is fine - CNAME to Google. The primary domain though is using URL forwarding, probably to a fixed IP address. That will work OK for a while, but eventually <A HREF="http://bloggerstatusforreal.blogspot.com/2007/09/custom-domain-publishing-using-url.html" REL="nofollow">that will die and you'll be out of luck</A>.<BR/><BR/>It would really be a good idea for you to post in <A HREF="http://groups.google.com/group/blogger-help-troubleshoot/topics" REL="nofollow">Google Blogger Help</A>, so we can discuss the details. It's a true pain in the ass posting diagnotic logs here.Nitecruzrhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/08069634565746003311noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6877276847653230209.post-82830891283627195342007-11-13T15:58:00.000-08:002007-11-13T15:58:00.000-08:00"So, before you publish to a custom domain, take y..."So, before you publish to a custom domain, take your FTP blog, and publish it back to a Blog*Spot URL. Blogger will forward the Blog*Spot URL to the custom domain, when you republish the blog to the custom domain."<BR/><BR/>Thank you so much for this. I had just switched my FTP-published <A HREF="http://www.hermick.com" REL="nofollow"> blog</A>, to a Custom Domain. It worked for a few days, then all of a sudden, it was gone, consistently giving me 404 errors.<BR/><BR/>I switched it to hermick.blogspot.com then back to <A HREF="http://www.hermick.com" REL="nofollow"> www.hermick.com</A>, and it was fixed. Yay!<BR/><BR/>Now I know where to go to get real blogger.com answers.Scotthttps://www.blogger.com/profile/11080974803638296022noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6877276847653230209.post-65304037981255208752007-08-01T18:23:00.000-07:002007-08-01T18:23:00.000-07:00Russel,You need to point your blog, using a CNAME ...Russel,<BR/><BR/>You need to point your blog, using a CNAME referral, to ghs.google.com, which load balances each blog reference among the Google server farm (my guess, 5,000+ servers), giving each of your readers an IP address that's valid at that immediate time.<BR/><BR/>If you use a normal DNS reference (URL referral to xxxxxxx.blogspot.com), your readers will be getting a cached IP address from any DNS server between them and Google. This will be a problem both for you (your reader) and for Google.<BR/><BR/>Any IP address in DNS cache points to a server that was just referenced, and is likely still busy. Your reader gets a cached IP address, and goes hammering on a server that's busy, instead of letting ghs.google.com assign the next available one.<BR/><BR/>That's like you walk into the bank, bypass the line in there, and accost the nearest (and occupied) teller, screming for service NOW. Get your ass back in line, and wait for the next available teller!<BR/><BR/>For load balancing to work, everybody has to play by the same rules. Google's rules say "Use a CNAME", so that's what you need to do.Nitecruzrhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/08069634565746003311noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6877276847653230209.post-20055292508112858352007-08-01T13:25:00.000-07:002007-08-01T13:25:00.000-07:00So are you saying that it's not a good idea to poi...So are you saying that it's not a good idea to point www.mydomain.com to myblog.blogspot.com?<BR/><BR/>That's exactly what I'd like to do, but what are the problems?Russelhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/17603122201030837610noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6877276847653230209.post-56343278223483800512007-01-31T20:13:00.000-08:002007-01-31T20:13:00.000-08:00David,
This really needs to be discussed in Googl...David,<br /><br />This really needs to be discussed in Google Blogger Help <a href="http://groups.google.com/group/blogger-help-troubleshoot/topics">Something Is Broken</a>.Nitecruzrhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/08069634565746003311noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6877276847653230209.post-14011791785785740412007-01-31T20:00:00.000-08:002007-01-31T20:00:00.000-08:00Hi there!
I am just facing something and wonderin...Hi there!<br /><br />I am just facing something and wondering if it has to do with the same issue. Here is the story:<br />I have two blogs: nomadtest.blogspot.com, and blognomadland.blogspot.com<br /><br />and one domain name: www.davidg.es<br />By error, I switched to nomadtest.blogspot.com to custom domain www.davidg.es. In fact I wanted to swicth the other.<br /><br />When I realised I went back immediately, reversing nomadtest to blogger publishing, then switched blognomadland to www.davidg.es. Surprise, error message saying "this domain is being used by another blog".<br /><br />So I deleted nomadtest ( the whole blog) and I tried again. Still same error. Seems like a blogger caching error, any idea? Now I can not publish my blog on my own domain.... :-((<br /><br />thanks!Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6877276847653230209.post-5707677518749386582007-01-10T20:06:00.000-08:002007-01-10T20:06:00.000-08:00I have a .info domain and am currently seeing the ...I have a .info domain and am currently seeing the error described in this post ......<br /><br />HJGGeorgehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/00343109366176848544noreply@blogger.com