Hi folks, I have been searching for blogs and forums to register and host a website of my own. Finally I got it, not a blog or forum, the way how to register and host a new website of mine with the help of Google.
What I want was, I have a blog in blogspot(Google) and I want to host those posts on a website of my own website. What I did was, Please read the below article carefully.
Please follow the below steps.
Section I : Registering a New Domain
Step 1: Before registering a domain you should have an idea of what domain means and what domain registration means. If you don't have an idea, then search in Google and get yourself comfortable. Also you can see the below link from Google.
https://support.google.com/a/answer/53929?hl=en
Step 2: Read the page and click on the button "Sign up for Google Apps".
It will redirect to the Google Apps sign up page.
Step 3: Please fill the required details for signing up for Google Apps as shown in the below image. And click "Next" button. It will redirect to another page.
Fill your billing address and click the Next button.
Step 5: After clicking the next button, it will redirect to the next page asking for the username to choose. Please give your new username which used as a domain administrator login userid. Select the last two checkboxes as shown in below image and click on the button "Accept and Sign up"
Step 6: This will redirect to the billing page and showing the bill amount. Please choose your Register from the options. I would recommend to choose GoDaddy.
And click the button Continue to continue.
Step 7: And it will ask for your payment details. Please enter the required details and do the payment.
Then you will be redirected to admin console of the domain powered by Google. That's it you are done with registering your domain name.
If you want Google Apps for your business, then you can do a try by paying them. If you don't want then leave them as it is. If you want to see billing details, please click on the Billing icon link.
You can all the billing details and their expiry date. You can also change the Renewal options by clicking on the Change link. If you want you can change cancel auto-renewal of your contract. Please see the below image.
On clicking on Save button, it will through an error with some additional information which was the security key for hosting your blog. Please see the below image for more information.
Now don't do anything on the page, keep the page as it is because we need to copy those keys to put it in your domain console.
Step 3: Please login to your domain admin console with this URL https://admin.google.com in a new browser or in the same browser's new session. Give your admin user name and password created while registering the website(Please refer Step 5 in Section I).
Once Login successful, it will redirect you to your admin console home page as shown in the below image. In the bottom of the homepage you can see the link More Controls. Click on the More Controls.
It will expand a section and show you some more controls. From those controls choose Domain. It will open the domain page.
Step 4: Now click on the Advanced DNS Settings link as mentioned in the below image.
It will open Advanced DNS settings page. From the page you can find the username and the password details of your Domain Registor(GoDaddy,etc.,) to login to their admin console.
Step 6: Click on the link "Sign in to DNS console" as shown in the above image. It will redirect you to GoDaddy web login page. Please enter the credentials displayed in the Advanced DNS Settings page(refers above image) and login.
It will show you all the domains that you have registered with that registor. From the lick please click on the domain on which you want to host the blogspot.
It will open its Domain Details Page as shown in the below image. From the page click on the 2nd tab DNS Zone File.
There you can find a lick Add Record.
Click on the link and you will find a popup asking to choose record type. Please select CNAME(Alias) as shown in the below image.
Once you select the type, it will display another 3 fields Host, Points to and TTL.
Please leave TTL as default for 1 hour. And now your have to enter Host and Points to. As explained in Step 2: in Section II(refer below image), there we go a host and points to value given by Blogger(Google) for your blog. From the below image, leave the 1st row mentioned in arrow because it will be there already by default. Take the 2nd row mentioned by arrow. From the second row, 1st value is Host value and 2nd value is Points to value. Please copy paste those values in the popup and click on the Save button.
Once you click the save button on the popup, the popup closes and on the page, with a red color background you can see Save Changes link. Please click on the link. Then only the change will be reflected.
If you need more information on giving those values, please visit the below link.
https://support.google.com/blogger/answer/58317#godaddy
Once you saved the changes, on the same page scroll to the CName (Alias) section. There you can find the CNAME that you have added newly. Please make sure that the 2 line items mentioned in the below image should exists in yours list also.
That's it...!!!! So now you are done. In next 48 hours(may be in next 2 hrs) your blog will be hosted on your new domain. Enjoy blogging on your own domain...
What I want was, I have a blog in blogspot(Google) and I want to host those posts on a website of my own website. What I did was, Please read the below article carefully.
Please follow the below steps.
Section I : Registering a New Domain
Step 1: Before registering a domain you should have an idea of what domain means and what domain registration means. If you don't have an idea, then search in Google and get yourself comfortable. Also you can see the below link from Google.
https://support.google.com/a/answer/53929?hl=en
Step 2: Read the page and click on the button "Sign up for Google Apps".
It will redirect to the Google Apps sign up page.
Step 3: Please fill the required details for signing up for Google Apps as shown in the below image. And click "Next" button. It will redirect to another page.
Step 4: Here you can also have an option to choose your own domain which you have already purchased(This is for the users who have already have domain and need only Google Apps). But we need to register a new domain. So choose the option "Buy a new domain now".
And enter your domain name which you want to have as your Website and choose .com or .net or etc.,. Check for the availability of your domain name and if not available then try for an another name.
Fill your billing address and click the Next button.
Step 5: After clicking the next button, it will redirect to the next page asking for the username to choose. Please give your new username which used as a domain administrator login userid. Select the last two checkboxes as shown in below image and click on the button "Accept and Sign up"
Step 6: This will redirect to the billing page and showing the bill amount. Please choose your Register from the options. I would recommend to choose GoDaddy.
And click the button Continue to continue.
Step 7: And it will ask for your payment details. Please enter the required details and do the payment.
Then you will be redirected to admin console of the domain powered by Google. That's it you are done with registering your domain name.
If you want Google Apps for your business, then you can do a try by paying them. If you don't want then leave them as it is. If you want to see billing details, please click on the Billing icon link.
You can all the billing details and their expiry date. You can also change the Renewal options by clicking on the Change link. If you want you can change cancel auto-renewal of your contract. Please see the below image.
Section II : Hosting your blogspot post on your new domain
Step 1: Login to your Blogger and choose your blog which you want to host it on your newly registered website. Goto Settings --> From the let side page you can see a header Publishing. Under the section you can see a link "+Setup a 3rd party URL for your blog" as shown in the below image.
Step 2: Click on the link and you will see the below screen on the same page. Here you specify your full domain address as shown in the below image(i.e www.foobar.com). Then click on the save button.
On clicking on Save button, it will through an error with some additional information which was the security key for hosting your blog. Please see the below image for more information.
Now don't do anything on the page, keep the page as it is because we need to copy those keys to put it in your domain console.
Step 3: Please login to your domain admin console with this URL https://admin.google.com in a new browser or in the same browser's new session. Give your admin user name and password created while registering the website(Please refer Step 5 in Section I).
Once Login successful, it will redirect you to your admin console home page as shown in the below image. In the bottom of the homepage you can see the link More Controls. Click on the More Controls.
It will expand a section and show you some more controls. From those controls choose Domain. It will open the domain page.
Step 4: Now click on the Advanced DNS Settings link as mentioned in the below image.
It will open Advanced DNS settings page. From the page you can find the username and the password details of your Domain Registor(GoDaddy,etc.,) to login to their admin console.
Step 6: Click on the link "Sign in to DNS console" as shown in the above image. It will redirect you to GoDaddy web login page. Please enter the credentials displayed in the Advanced DNS Settings page(refers above image) and login.
It will show you all the domains that you have registered with that registor. From the lick please click on the domain on which you want to host the blogspot.
It will open its Domain Details Page as shown in the below image. From the page click on the 2nd tab DNS Zone File.
There you can find a lick Add Record.
Click on the link and you will find a popup asking to choose record type. Please select CNAME(Alias) as shown in the below image.
Once you select the type, it will display another 3 fields Host, Points to and TTL.
Please leave TTL as default for 1 hour. And now your have to enter Host and Points to. As explained in Step 2: in Section II(refer below image), there we go a host and points to value given by Blogger(Google) for your blog. From the below image, leave the 1st row mentioned in arrow because it will be there already by default. Take the 2nd row mentioned by arrow. From the second row, 1st value is Host value and 2nd value is Points to value. Please copy paste those values in the popup and click on the Save button.
Once you click the save button on the popup, the popup closes and on the page, with a red color background you can see Save Changes link. Please click on the link. Then only the change will be reflected.
https://support.google.com/blogger/answer/58317#godaddy
Once you saved the changes, on the same page scroll to the CName (Alias) section. There you can find the CNAME that you have added newly. Please make sure that the 2 line items mentioned in the below image should exists in yours list also.
That's it...!!!! So now you are done. In next 48 hours(may be in next 2 hrs) your blog will be hosted on your new domain. Enjoy blogging on your own domain...
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