Domain redirect to blogger

Shmidgy

• September 02, 2015 07:03

I am trying to redirect my new domain to an existing blogger site, so my blog appears under my new domain. I have followed all the instructions which all appear to be the same - go to advance DNS and change CNAME for www.mydomain.com. from mydomain.com. to ghs.google.com - however it doesn't seem to make a difference and when I refresh, it stays on the same default page. Am I doing something wrong? or am I suppose to change something else/wait 24hours?

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  hostCAPO

  • September 02, 2015 18:05

  Hello, There are a couple of things I am seeing here, First, the default cPanel page states that DNS changes could cause some downtime. However, since you have only modified the www cname, if you visit the site without www and there is no redirect forcing it to www in your configuration(.htaccess or what have you) then it won't load ghs.google except from www. If you want to check your dns at numerous different points, globally, then something like whatsmydns.net will give you the results you want. What instructions did you use to help you make these changes and what is the domain you are changing? Regards, Jeremy A.

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  Shmidgy

  • September 03, 2015 01:12

  Thanks Jeremy, I am trying to change my current blog URL from domain.blogspot.com to domain.com Half of my problem was not having patience for DNS propagating.. this seems to have kind of worked. I did the following steps: 1. go to blogger basic settings and change the publishing blog address to use 3rd party custom domain 2. enter custom domain with www. and save 3. after save generated CNAME name/address for verification 4. go to cpanel and DNS settings enter "www" to add CNAME but came up with already existing 5. then realised cpanel auto adds www".domain.com." so edited existing record from domain.com to ghs.google.com 6. I also added a new CNAME with the second details provided and saved. Refreshed and saved but then it didn't do anything so removed it (no longer have records of that second CNAME details) 7. all URL went to default domain.com 8. added the new 4 ip address to A record. 9. waited overnight and this is the current status:
  domain.com (android) - Google 404 error www.domain.com (android) - working; loading pages from domain.blogspot.com domain.blogspot.com (android) - loads page as expected and changes URL to www.domain.com domain.com (browser IE11/Chrome) - deleted history/cookies/cache/restarted and still on domain.com default www.domain.com (browser IE11/Chrome) - deleted history/cookies/cache/restarted and still on domain.com default domain.blogspot.com (browser IE11/Chrome) - deleted history/cookies/cache/restarted and redirects to domain.com default Current DNS settings: domain.com. - A - 216.239.xx.x www.domain.com. - CNAME - ghs.google.com domain.com. - A - 216.239.xx.x domain.com. - A - 216.239.xx.x domain.com. - A - 216.239.xx.x
  

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  cPanelMichael

  • September 04, 2015 06:10

  Hello :) Does the issue persist now that DNS should have fully propagated? Thank you.

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