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Gregory Levonian

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More options Feb 19 2007, 4:03 am

From: Gregory Levonian

Date: Mon, 19 Feb 2007 09:03:43 -0000

Local: Mon, Feb 19 2007 4:03 am

Subject: Re: A Solution to "Another blog is already hosted at this address." error

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This really pissed me off.

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.

Again thanks!!

On Feb 5, 2:46 am, Rustdawg wrote:

> A solution has been found.....

> 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.

> Rustdawg

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