A very BIG THANKS to gergely.takacs in this thread (http:// groups.google.com/group/blogger-help-troubleshoot/browse_thread/thread/ 289f09679002b73f/4eeef06e4fcd8984?lnk=gst&q=Another+blog+is +already&rnum=5&hl=en#4eeef06e4fcd8984)
The problem stems from Google Apps for Your Domain....here is how I fixed the issue of the "Another blog is already hosted at this address." error.
1. Go to your domain registrar, (I needed reset everything to their default settings) and create (or change if already existing) a CNAME named "www" and point it to "ghs.google.com"
2. Logged into Google Apps for Your Domain or create a new account if you do not have one. (I had decided to set up an account AFTER originally setting up my custom domain on blogger.com....this inadvertently led to all of my problems)
3. Once logged in, from the "Dashboard" choose to ONLY add "Domain web pages" and click the "Add selected services" button.
4. Use the CNAME subdomain that has been giving the message "Another blog is already hosted at this address." error in Blogger as the address you want to publish to. (In my case "www")
5. From here I chose to create a simple "Google Pages" webpage just to confirm that my address (http://www.theviralweb.com) was indeed working.
6. Back on the Dashboard of Google Apps for Your Domain, choose to remove the "Domain web pages service"
7. Go to your blog on blogger.com and change the custom address to the problematic address (In my case "www.theviralweb.com"), blogger should now allow it.
8. In my case, when I would click the "View Blog" link...blogger now took me to the Google Pages page I had just created in Google Apps for Your Domain.
9. This step my be redundant and actually just require time for the DNS to refresh, but I logged back into Google Apps for Your Domain and proceeded to add the "Domain web pages service" back, but this time I used a different subdomain (not "www" but instead I used "blog"). I never bothered to set up a CNAME in my registrar settings as I was only attempting to get Google Apps for Your Domain to "let go" of the "www" subdomain.
10. All of these actions soon caused the "Google 404 not found" page to appear for my site address.
11. I then proceeded to again remove the "Domain web pages service".
12. After only a few moments of waiting for the DNS to catch up, my domain (http://www.theviralweb.com) was now working and opening my blog.
I would again like to thank gergely.takacs for his information, and I wish I could say that I have repeated all these steps to confirm they are correct....but I would rather not loose control of my domain again...so this info is provided as-is and I just hope it works for everyone who has had this same problem over the past few weeks.
> A very BIG THANKS to gergely.takacs in this thread (http:// > groups.google.com/group/blogger-help-troubleshoot/browse_thread/thread/ > 289f09679002b73f/4eeef06e4fcd8984?lnk=gst&q=Another+blog+is > +already&rnum=5&hl=en#4eeef06e4fcd8984)
> The problem stems from Google Apps for Your Domain....here is how I > fixed the issue of the "Another blog is > already hosted at this address." error.
That's a workaround, and it may not work for everybody. We need to pressure Blogger to fix the actual problem.
> A very BIG THANKS to gergely.takacs in this thread (http:// > groups.google.com/group/blogger-help-troubleshoot/browse_thread/thread/ > 289f09679002b73f/4eeef06e4fcd8984?lnk=gst&q=Another+blog+is > +already&rnum=5&hl=en#4eeef06e4fcd8984)
> The problem stems from Google Apps for Your Domain....here is how I > fixed the issue of the "Another blog is > already hosted at this address." error.
> 1. Go to your domain registrar, (I needed reset everything to their > default settings) and create (or change if already existing) a CNAME > named "www" and point it to "ghs.google.com"
> 2. Logged into Google Apps for Your Domain or create a new account if > you do not have one. (I had decided to set up an account AFTER > originally setting up my custom domain on blogger.com....this > inadvertently led to all of my problems)
> 3. Once logged in, from the "Dashboard" choose to ONLY add "Domain web > pages" and click the "Add selected services" button.
> 4. Use the CNAME subdomain that has been giving the message "Another > blog is already hosted at this address." error in Blogger as the > address you want to publish to. (In my case "www")
> 5. From here I chose to create a simple "Google Pages" webpage just to > confirm that my address (http://www.theviralweb.com) was indeed > working.
> 6. Back on the Dashboard of Google Apps for Your Domain, choose to > remove the "Domain web pages service"
> 7. Go to your blog on blogger.com and change the custom address to the > problematic address (In my case "www.theviralweb.com"), blogger should > now allow it.
> 8. In my case, when I would click the "View Blog" link...blogger now > took me to the Google Pages page I had just created in Google Apps for > Your Domain.
> 9. This step my be redundant and actually just require time for the > DNS to refresh, but I logged back into Google Apps for Your Domain and > proceeded to add the "Domain web pages service" back, but this time I > used a different subdomain (not "www" but instead I used "blog"). I > never bothered to set up a CNAME in my registrar settings as I was > only attempting to get Google Apps for Your Domain to "let go" of the > "www" subdomain.
> 10. All of these actions soon caused the "Google 404 not found" page > to appear for my site address.
> 11. I then proceeded to again remove the "Domain web pages service".
> 12. After only a few moments of waiting for the DNS to catch up, my > domain (http://www.theviralweb.com) was now working and opening my > blog.
> I would again like to thank gergely.takacs for his information, and I > wish I could say that I have repeated all these steps to confirm they > are correct....but I would rather not loose control of my domain > again...so this info is provided as-is and I just hope it works for > everyone who has had this same problem over the past few weeks.
I've posted about this problem here 3 times, i wrote to blogger about it 5 times, and this worked *perfectly*. :-)
Thank you, thank you, thank you!!!
I do wish that google had informed me of this or had acknowledged this problem.
BTW as far as I can see the principle is that both Google Apps Domain web pages and Blogger use the same database, but there is a bug in the blogger code that does not let go of the name. So these instructions are in fact using the Google Apps domain web pages code to let go of the address.
> A very BIG THANKS to gergely.takacs in this thread (http:// > groups.google.com/group/blogger-help-troubleshoot/browse_thread/thread/ > 289f09679002b73f/4eeef06e4fcd8984?lnk=gst&q=Another+blog+is > +already&rnum=5&hl=en#4eeef06e4fcd8984)
> The problem stems from Google Apps for Your Domain....here is how I > fixed the issue of the "Anotherblogis > alreadyhostedat this address." error.
> 1. Go to your domain registrar, (I needed reset everything to their > default settings) and create (or change if already existing) a CNAME > named "www" and point it to "ghs.google.com"
> 2. Logged into Google Apps for Your Domain or create a new account if > you do not have one. (I had decided to set up an account AFTER > originally setting up my custom domain on blogger.com....this > inadvertently led to all of my problems)
> 3. Once logged in, from the "Dashboard" choose to ONLY add "Domain web > pages" and click the "Add selected services" button.
> 4. Use the CNAME subdomain that has been giving the message "Anotherblogis alreadyhostedat this address." error in Blogger as the > address you want to publish to. (In my case "www")
> 5. From here I chose to create a simple "Google Pages" webpage just to > confirm that my address (http://www.theviralweb.com) was indeed > working.
> 6. Back on the Dashboard of Google Apps for Your Domain, choose to > remove the "Domain web pages service"
> 7. Go to yourblogon blogger.com and change the custom address to the > problematic address (In my case "www.theviralweb.com"), blogger should > now allow it.
> 8. In my case, when I would click the "ViewBlog" link...blogger now > took me to the Google Pages page I had just created in Google Apps for > Your Domain.
> 9. This step my be redundant and actually just require time for the > DNS to refresh, but I logged back into Google Apps for Your Domain and > proceeded to add the "Domain web pages service" back, but this time I > used a different subdomain (not "www" but instead I used "blog"). I > never bothered to set up a CNAME in my registrar settings as I was > only attempting to get Google Apps for Your Domain to "let go" of the > "www" subdomain.
> 10. All of these actions soon caused the "Google 404 not found" page > to appear for my site address.
> 11. I then proceeded to again remove the "Domain web pages service".
> 12. After only a few moments of waiting for the DNS to catch up, my > domain (http://www.theviralweb.com) was now working and opening myblog.
> I would again like to thank gergely.takacs for his information, and I > wish I could say that I have repeated all these steps to confirm they > are correct....but I would rather not loose control of my domain > again...so this info is provided as-is and I just hope it works for > everyone who has had this same problem over the past few weeks.
It worked for us, but as Chuck said "We need to pressure Blogger to fix the actual problem."
We have a lot of members (groups and companies) that are waiting for "an even easier" way to setup Google Apps - this is a killer app - specially if associated with other services like blogger and Google Groups... THANK YOU GOOGLE, but please:
> > A very BIG THANKS to gergely.takacs in this thread (http:// > > groups.google.com/group/blogger-help-troubleshoot/browse_thread/thread/ > > 289f09679002b73f/4eeef06e4fcd8984?lnk=gst&q=Another+blog+is > > +already&rnum=5&hl=en#4eeef06e4fcd8984)
> > The problem stems from Google Apps for Your Domain....here is how I > > fixed the issue of the "Another blog is> already hosted at this address." error.
> That's a workaround, and it may not work for everybody. We need to > pressure Blogger to fix the actual problem.
This is the only strategy that worked for me. Thanks rustdawg for this post, and to nitecruzr for your informative blog on the subject.
Blogger really needs to put out more complete and less ambiguous instructions on how to make this work including the potential pit that so many of us seemed to fall into. All the folks with the error message stating they couldn't switch back to blogspot hosting wouldn't trying to be doing that if the process was clear to begin with.
My main beef is under the Publishing tab, where the example provided for Your Domain is blog.example.com - when for most folks this is likely going to be www.example.com. I didn't have a 'blog' subdomain, so simply entered 'example.com' as per the implied direction. Big Mistake. Enter the monolithic error. Who knew I'd have to sign up for Google Apps to make it all go away.
Anyway. Its all behind me. Catching up on sleep now. Thanks again.
> A very BIG THANKS to gergely.takacs in this thread (http:// > groups.google.com/group/blogger-help-troubleshoot/browse_thread/thread/ > 289f09679002b73f/4eeef06e4fcd8984?lnk=gst&q=Another+blog+is > +already&rnum=5&hl=en#4eeef06e4fcd8984)
> The problem stems from Google Apps for Your Domain....here is how I > fixed the issue of the "Another blog is > already hosted at this address." error.
> 1. Go to your domain registrar, (I needed reset everything to their > default settings) and create (or change if already existing) a CNAME > named "www" and point it to "ghs.google.com"
> 2. Logged into Google Apps for Your Domain or create a new account if > you do not have one. (I had decided to set up an account AFTER > originally setting up my custom domain on blogger.com....this > inadvertently led to all of my problems)
> 3. Once logged in, from the "Dashboard" choose to ONLY add "Domain web > pages" and click the "Add selected services" button.
> 4. Use the CNAME subdomain that has been giving the message "Another > blog is already hosted at this address." error in Blogger as the > address you want to publish to. (In my case "www")
> 5. From here I chose to create a simple "Google Pages" webpage just to > confirm that my address (http://www.theviralweb.com) was indeed > working.
> 6. Back on the Dashboard of Google Apps for Your Domain, choose to > remove the "Domain web pages service"
> 7. Go to your blog on blogger.com and change the custom address to the > problematic address (In my case "www.theviralweb.com"), blogger should > now allow it.
> 8. In my case, when I would click the "View Blog" link...blogger now > took me to the Google Pages page I had just created in Google Apps for > Your Domain.
> 9. This step my be redundant and actually just require time for the > DNS to refresh, but I logged back into Google Apps for Your Domain and > proceeded to add the "Domain web pages service" back, but this time I > used a different subdomain (not "www" but instead I used "blog"). I > never bothered to set up a CNAME in my registrar settings as I was > only attempting to get Google Apps for Your Domain to "let go" of the > "www" subdomain.
> 10. All of these actions soon caused the "Google 404 not found" page > to appear for my site address.
> 11. I then proceeded to again remove the "Domain web pages service".
> 12. After only a few moments of waiting for the DNS to catch up, my > domain (http://www.theviralweb.com) was now working and opening my > blog.
> I would again like to thank gergely.takacs for his information, and I > wish I could say that I have repeated all these steps to confirm they > are correct....but I would rather not loose control of my domain > again...so this info is provided as-is and I just hope it works for > everyone who has had this same problem over the past few weeks.
Thanks everybody the problem is resolved by following the steps mentioned.......At first I was too lazy to follow the steps but hey it REALLY worth it............
However I wud condense it into just 4 steps: 1.Change CName records to www. and point to ghs.google.com 2.Disable and enable the webpage service in Google apps and then publish a sample page. 3.After you see the sample page again disable the webpage service. 4.Now point the blogger to the original website.It will not give"another blog is hosted" error.
> Thanks everybody the problem is resolved by following the steps > mentioned.......At first I was too lazy to follow the steps but hey it > REALLY worth it............
> However I wud condense it into just 4 steps: > 1.Change CName records to www. > and point to ghs.google.com > 2.Disable and enable the webpage service in Google apps and then > publish a sample page. > 3.After you see the sample page again disable the webpage service. > 4.Now point the blogger to the original website.It will not > give"another blog ishosted" error.
