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This is the only strategy that worked for me. Thanks rustdawg for Blogger really needs to put out more complete and less ambiguous My main beef is under the Publishing tab, where the example provided Anyway. Its all behind me. Catching up on sleep now. Thanks again. On Feb 4, 4:46 pm, Rustdawg wrote: > A very BIG THANKS to gergely.takacs in this thread (http:// > The problem stems from Google Apps for Your Domain....here is how I > 1. Go to your domain registrar, (I needed reset everything to their > 2. Logged into Google Apps for Your Domain or create a new account if > 3. Once logged in, from the "Dashboard" choose to ONLY add "Domain web > 4. Use the CNAME subdomain that has been giving the message "Another > 5. From here I chose to create a simple "Google Pages" webpage just to > 6. Back on the Dashboard of Google Apps for Your Domain, choose to > 7. Go to your blog on blogger.com and change the custom address to the > 8. In my case, when I would click the "View Blog" link...blogger now > 9. This step my be redundant and actually just require time for the > 10. All of these actions soon caused the "Google 404 not found" page > 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 > I would again like to thank gergely.takacs for his information, and I > Rustdawg
this post, and to nitecruzr for your informative blog on the subject.
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.
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.
> A solution has been found.....
> groups.google.com/group/blogger-help-troubleshoot/browse_thread/thread/
> 289f09679002b73f/4eeef06e4fcd8984?lnk=gst&q=Another+blog+is
> +already&rnum=5&hl=en#4eeef06e4fcd8984)
> fixed the issue of the "Another blog is
> already hosted at this address." error.
> default settings) and create (or change if already existing) a CNAME
> named "www" and point it to "ghs.google.com"
> 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)
> pages" and click the "Add selected services" button.
> blog is already hosted at this address." error in Blogger as the
> address you want to publish to. (In my case "www")
> confirm that my address (http://www.theviralweb.com) was indeed
> working.
> remove the "Domain web pages service"
> problematic address (In my case "www.theviralweb.com"), blogger should
> now allow it.
> took me to the Google Pages page I had just created in Google Apps for
> Your Domain.
> 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.
> to appear for my site address.
> domain (http://www.theviralweb.com) was now working and opening my
> blog.
> 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.