How to publish a custom URL on Blogger!

This seems to be a frequent question on Google groups - therefore i thought i will write it down.

Log into your blogger account and click > settings > publishing > click on advanced settings and write your domain name - it should be http://www.yourdomainname.com and click save settings.

Then log into your DNS (Domain Name System) control panel and point your server to ghs.google.

"DNS server determines what site a given address takes you to. So far, you have a domain name but none of the servers on the internet know what to do with it yet. To take care of this, you need to create a CNAME record for your domain with the DNS, associating your domain with ghs.google.com."

For example - your registrar is yahoo small business - log into your account - click Domain Control panel > advanced DNS settings > click add record add www. and enter ghs.google.com - then click submit so that it looks like www.yourdomainname.com

1. In the Source field, enter only the sub domain you want to use. For example, if you designated www.mydomain.com as the address of your blog, enter www in the Source field.
2. Enter ghs.google.com in the Destination field.
3. Click Submit

The above 3 points are taken from blogger help - BUT this does not work properly - if you follow the above steps your domain will get a 404 error notice.

to circumvent that you need to modify your "A record" and point it to blog spot/blogger server

the blogger server is 72.14.207.191 - so if you modify your a record as above - it should point your domain to your blogger account.

Hope this helps!