Schizophrenia As Well As Custom Domain Urls - October 2012

Now that the custom domain publishing characteristic is dorsum online again, in that place remains 1 characteristic of custom domain publishing to live on restored to the Blogger dashboard.

The real pop Blogger dashboard choice to redirect the domain root (aka "naked domain"), to the "www" alias, may non live on reliable - or fifty-fifty available.

Too many people report

I can't redirect the naked domain - I tin direct the option, but the adjacent fourth dimension I look, the box volition live on un checked.

and

My "www" alias industrial plant simply fine - but the domain origin straightaway returns a "404".

Fortunately, in that place are alternative solutions to render the naked domain redirect.

There are iii ways to redirect the domain origin to the primary ("www" - or whatever alternate selection) alias.

• Registrar Domain Manager forwarding.
• Blogger Publishing redirect.
• Google Apps "Domain settings" redirect.

Registrar Domain Manager

The Registrar Domain Manager provides, for roughly weblog owners, the currently almost obvious alternative to the Blogger Publishing redirect - but it is non the simplest to use. Depending upon the registrar, as well as the nature of the domain managing director / DNS servers, this physical care for may non fifty-fifty work.

Some registrars volition recommend unproblematic DNS or frame forwarding to the BlogSpot URL - as well as this "solution", nosotros know from experience, will non function at all. One work hither volition live on spurious spam classification, caused past times what looks similar an offsite redirect of the domain root.

Blogger Publishing

The Blogger Publishing redirect option is the almost obvious alternative. This is the preferred option, inwards custom domain publishing - as well as re publishing - procedures.

Google Apps "Domain settings"

H5N1 less obvious option, the Google Apps "Domain settings" redirect option, is a 3rd solution.

For whatever newly purchased domain - also every bit for domains purchased straight from a registrar, it's possible (though currently, with roughly effort) to setup a Google Apps domain administrator account. Next, role the "Change how your naked domain is redirected" screen, as well as change or recycle the domain origin redirect.

Which e'er alternative you lot chose - or made to work, the domain origin should straightaway redirect to the alias of your choice.