Monday, July 13, 2009

Custom Subdomain for Your Blog with GoDaddy Using CNAME

If you have your own site at GoDaddy and you want to have http://blog.yoursite.com to be your Blogger address, here are the steps:
  1. Log in to your account at www.godaddy.com.
  2. Go to the Domain Manager.
  3. Click the domain that you'd like to use with your blog.
  4. Click the Total DNS Control link at the bottom of the section entitled Total DNS.
  5. Click Add New CNAME Record in the box labelled CNAMES (aliases).
  6. For the Name, type blog or whatever you want your subdomain to be.
  7. Enter ghs.google.com as the Host Name. Specify a TTL or use the default setting of 1 hour.
  8. Click OK, and then click OK again.
  9. WAIT an hour to 3 hours...
  10. Open a command prompt window (Windows Key + R, type CMD, press OK)
  11. type ping blog.yoursite.com (of course you'll need to change yoursite.com to your actual website...)
  12. press Enter
  13. Repeat every hour or so until you get a reply (took me about 3 hours for DNS records to update)
  14. When you get a reply, log into your Blogger account - http://www.blogger.com
  15. Go to Settings > Publishing > switch to Custom Domain > click Advanced Settings
  16. Fill in the Your Domain field with blog.yoursite.com (of course you'll need to change yoursite.com to your actual website...)
  17. Complete the Word Verification and hit Save Settings
You're done!

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