Sunday, June 3, 2012

GoDaddy Blogger Subdomain Forwarding

While setting up this blog, I was having trouble forwarding my "www" subdomain correctly within the GoDaddy Domain Manager page to my blogger blog. Currently, I want my top level (naked) domain (http://patrickmriley.net) along with my "www" subdomain (http://www.patrickmriley.net) to both forward to my Blogger blog. This can be achieved by using the GoDaddy DNS Zone File Editor and the GoDaddy Forwarding and Masking window (you might need to do some tinkering here, so grab a drink before trying at home). There is now a utility being offered by GoDaddy to do this but it doesn't seem to work very well for this scenario, so I have drawn up the steps below.

Step 1: Update your Zone file in the DNS Manager (A records for top level and www must point to 64.202.189.170 to tell GoDaddy this is a forwarded domain/subdomain, the blog subdomain should have a CNAME record pointed to ghs.google.com as indicated below)



Step 2: Use the GoDaddy Domain Manager Forwarding and Masking window to forward your domain and www subdomain to the desired subdomain. 


Step 3: Give it a few minutes and see if the forwarding takes effect. This can take up to 48 hours so be patient. If you get it right the first time, you'll save yourself a lot of frustration.

Hopefully this helps someone else out there!

Posted by at
Labels:

4 comments:

  1. UnknownDecember 27, 2018 at 9:02 PM

    Thanks for the good words! Really appreciated. Great post. I’ve been commenting a lot on a few blogs recently, but I hadn’t thought about my approach until you brought it up. 

    Java training in Chennai

    Java training in Bangalore

    ReplyDelete
  2. Jaweed KhanMarch 1, 2019 at 2:50 AM

    Thanks For Sharing your Information The Information Shared Is Very Valuable Please Keep Updating Us Time Just Went On reading the article Data Science Online Training Hadoop Science Online Training AWS Online Training Python Online Training

    ReplyDelete
  3. AmanApril 13, 2020 at 12:29 PM

    Godaddy renewal coupons are the best way to get discount on godaddy products. Use these Renewal coupon to get discount.

    ReplyDelete
  4. ApoorvaOctober 5, 2021 at 4:27 AM

    Such a nice blog which gives informative content. It shares the comparison between all the domains and suggest the best one for buying. bluehost create subdomain

    ReplyDelete

Subscribe to: Post Comments (Atom)