Aug
23
2010

Redirecting Naked Domain to its www subdomain : A Problem in Blogger Custom Domain Redirection

An article by webNivaran Comments

Many of you must be having a blog on blogger/blogspot. There is a option in the blogger settings section, to host your blog on a custom domain.

If you want to host your blog on a domain name of your choice, first you need to register that domain name and then set it to point to blogger servers using a cname record. You will get a detailed tutorial for this on blogger help section here.

But blogger allows only the use of a subdomain to host your blog. You cannot host your blogger blog on a naked domain like http://example.com. You need to create a subdomain like http://www.example.com or http://blog.example.com to host your blog. The process of creating a cname record for a domain is explained here.

And then there is a option to redirect the naked domain on its subdomain you are using for your blog.

Now, the problem arises here. If you’ve registered you domain name through blogger, then this redirection option of redirecting the naked doamin on the used subdomain will work fine. Otherwise, it will not work.

If you already own a domain name and want to have your blogger blog hosted on that, then first you’ll have to create a subdomain for this. And host your blog on this subdomain by using the cname records in the DNS control panel of your domain.

Now, to redirect your naked domain on this subdomain you’ll need a bit of web space to host files for redirection.

Remember, if you use a separate hosting with your domain, you’ll need to update the name servers of your domain name and also you will have to create the cname once again using your hosting control panel.