Using a custom domain for something other than your Blogger blog
This article is close how yous tin exercise a custom domain that was purchased through Google / Blogger for something other than a Blogger blog.
Blogger makes it really slow for yous to purchase a "custom" domain advert (ie URL) for your blog. Instead of beingness www.fred-fish.blogspot.com, yous tin easily live on www.fred-fish.com - which is to a greater extent than appealing for all sorts of reasons.
Blogger tells yous which domain registrar they're going to exercise in addition to lets yous modify to the other ane if yous desire to. Apart from this, Google hides most of the "technical" domain registration details from you: yous are invited to set upwards a domain administrator describe of piece of employment concern human relationship (in Google Apps), but fifty-fifty this is optional.
But at that topographic point may come upwards a fourth dimension when yous desire to exercise your domain for to a greater extent than than simply a blog: eg, Fred may desire to exercise www.fred-fish.com to sell line-fishing trips or every bit Blue Planet gateway to a massive database of line-fishing achievements, neither of which are functions that Blogger (easily) provides.
To exercise a Google-Blogger purchased domain for something other than a Blogspot blig, yous postulate to:
Even though yous purchased the domain using Blogger, your access to it is through the Google Apps command panel: from at that topographic point yous larn the login details for the domain registrar (currently either goDaddy or eNom that Google used to purchase the domain).
2 From the Dashboard, select Settings > Basic > Publishing and click the cross on the correct of the Edit link beside your weblog name.
This changes your weblog dorsum to www.YOUR-BLOG-NAME.blogspot.com, in addition to removes the DNS records that pointed your weblog to your custom-URL.
It may accept a few hours (I've heard 72) for these changes to apply to computers all to a greater extent than or less the world, therefore people who become to your custom domain may nonetheless larn re-directed to your weblog for a hateful solar daytime or two.
Also, Google (and other search engines) volition nonetheless conduct maintain indexed links to your weblog contents at your custom domain. These volition gradually live on replaced when
I've previously described how to set upwards the domain administrator for your domain.
v Log in amongst the admin describe of piece of employment concern human relationship in addition to password from Step 3.
half dozen Go to the Domain Settings tab
seven Go to the Domain Names sub-tab
8 Choose the Advanced DNS settings link.
This opens a cover that shows yous how to larn into the DNS console for your domain. It typically has
10 Follow the directions at that topographic point to make the domain changes.
The steps required depend totally on what yous are using the domain for: for assist amongst this, contact the the technical back upwards forum (or whatever) for the production that's beingness used to construct the novel contents of your domain.
If yous postulate to a greater extent than help, cheque out the Google Apps assist forum.
Transferring ownership of your weblog to some other Google account
Blogger in addition to other Google products - an overview
Recovering command of your custom domain (external link)
Blogger tells yous which domain registrar they're going to exercise in addition to lets yous modify to the other ane if yous desire to. Apart from this, Google hides most of the "technical" domain registration details from you: yous are invited to set upwards a domain administrator describe of piece of employment concern human relationship (in Google Apps), but fifty-fifty this is optional.
But at that topographic point may come upwards a fourth dimension when yous desire to exercise your domain for to a greater extent than than simply a blog: eg, Fred may desire to exercise www.fred-fish.com to sell line-fishing trips or every bit Blue Planet gateway to a massive database of line-fishing achievements, neither of which are functions that Blogger (easily) provides.
To exercise a Google-Blogger purchased domain for something other than a Blogspot blig, yous postulate to:
- Move your blog away from the domain
(you mightiness motion it exercise a subdomain or virtual host off the domain after on - but the outset pace is simply to complimentary upwards the domain for other use. - Change the domain-name-server settings for the domain to signal to the correct house for the "something else" that yous desire to exercise it for.
Even though yous purchased the domain using Blogger, your access to it is through the Google Apps command panel: from at that topographic point yous larn the login details for the domain registrar (currently either goDaddy or eNom that Google used to purchase the domain).
How to re-use your domain
Unlink the domain from your blog:
1 Log inwards to Blogger amongst the describe of piece of employment concern human relationship that owns the domain.2 From the Dashboard, select Settings > Basic > Publishing and click the cross on the correct of the Edit link beside your weblog name.
This changes your weblog dorsum to www.YOUR-BLOG-NAME.blogspot.com, in addition to removes the DNS records that pointed your weblog to your custom-URL.
It may accept a few hours (I've heard 72) for these changes to apply to computers all to a greater extent than or less the world, therefore people who become to your custom domain may nonetheless larn re-directed to your weblog for a hateful solar daytime or two.
Also, Google (and other search engines) volition nonetheless conduct maintain indexed links to your weblog contents at your custom domain. These volition gradually live on replaced when
- you position novel content at your custom domain and
- it gets indexed past times the search engines and
- the novel content-indexing replaces information inwards the cached Google results inwards diverse computers to a greater extent than or less the world.
Next - link the domain to what yous desire it to show
3 Find, or create, the domain administrator login details for your domain:I've previously described how to set upwards the domain administrator for your domain.
- If yous haven't done this already, yous postulate to find the relevant email in addition to ready the describe of piece of employment concern human relationship now.
- If yous conduct maintain done it, yous postulate to remember the administrator login in addition to password that yous created.
- If yous cannot remember the administrator details, therefore become to https://www.google.com/a/cpanel/YOUR-DOMAIN-NAME/ForgotAdminAccountInfo - position inwards the correct value for your domain name, without www. or http:// at the start. Enter the captcha details, in addition to if yous conduct maintain ready an administrator describe of piece of employment concern human relationship the details volition live on emailed to your backup secondary address.
- If yous never created an administrator describe of piece of employment concern human relationship in addition to cannot discovery the electronic mail to practice it now, exercise this help-process. Choose:
- I never created an administrator account, then
- I signed upwards at Google.com/a in addition to purchased a domain advert at the same time
You tin solely exercise the help-process after yous conduct maintain un-linked your blog from the domain (ie steps 1-2 higher upwards addition left fourth dimension for the modify to live on applied to Google's servers - somewhere betwixt a few minutes in addition to a few hours seems to work). If yous try to exercise it spell your weblog is nonetheless using the domain, yous terminate upwards beingness directed dorsum to Blogger.
Note: if none of these processes assist yous larn command of your domain administrator, cheque the resources inwards this article from Nitecruzr close the topic.
v Log in amongst the admin describe of piece of employment concern human relationship in addition to password from Step 3.
half dozen Go to the Domain Settings tab
seven Go to the Domain Names sub-tab
8 Choose the Advanced DNS settings link.
This opens a cover that shows yous how to larn into the DNS console for your domain. It typically has
- Your domain-registrar sign-in advert in addition to password,
- Your domain-registrar client service PIN - inwards representative yous postulate to contact the registrar's client services,
- Contact details for the domain registrar's client service subdivision
- A link that yous tin exercise to larn to the to DNS console
10 Follow the directions at that topographic point to make the domain changes.
The steps required depend totally on what yous are using the domain for: for assist amongst this, contact the the technical back upwards forum (or whatever) for the production that's beingness used to construct the novel contents of your domain.
If yous postulate to a greater extent than help, cheque out the Google Apps assist forum.
Where to discovery to a greater extent than information
Automatically renewing your custom domainTransferring ownership of your weblog to some other Google account
Blogger in addition to other Google products - an overview
Recovering command of your custom domain (external link)
