Make Your Blogger Custom Domain Work With or Without ‘www’

Tuesday 6 August 2013

Make Your Blogger Custom Domain Work With or Without ‘www’

So, your custom domain is not working without prefixing ‘www’ and you are getting error messsage 'Error 404, requested URL not found on server' that’s why you have landed here. Many newbie Bloggers are facing the same issue with their blogs, this simply means that there is a problem with their blog redirection or we can say that their naked domain such as bloglution.com is not redirected to www.bloglution.com. There are hundreds of solutions available over internet but you don’t have to mess up with them as Blogger provides this redirection option itself. If you try to change your Blog Address under publishing tab, Blogger wouldn’t accept it and gives you a message that ‘Blogs may not be hosted at naked domains (ex: yourdomain.com). Please add a top-level domain (www.yourdomain.com) or subdomain (blog.yourdomain.com)’. Many newbie’s try this also, but ignores the basic redirection option below it.

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This tutorial will work only if you have added your custom domain correctly, I have written a post earlier on ‘Adding custom domain to blogger, go through it once to check if you have added it correctly. 

Make your custom domain work with or without ‘www’
       
      (1)   Go to your blog’s dashboard.
      (2)   Click on ‘Settings’ and then ‘Basic’.
      (3)   Go to ‘Blog Address’ under ‘Publishing’ and then click on ‘Edit’.

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      (4)   Under ‘Advanced settings’, check if you have selected the redirection option which says ‘Redirect domain.com to www.domain.com’. Select it if you have not.

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      (5)   Click on ‘Save’ and you are done.

Many of us forgot to select this option after adding custom domain and that’s the main reason why our naked domain didn’t work or get redirected to ‘www.domain.com’. Do let us know how many of you forgot to select this option.

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20 comments:

  1. Manaday Mavani29 September 2013 at 13:39

    Thanks for this Sandeep! After 2 years of active blogging I noticed this that my naked domain was giving 404 error. I never noticed that part. :(

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  2. fahad29 September 2013 at 18:41

    hi my domain www.fastpcdownload.com is not redirecting when i try fastpcdownload.com
    even i have enabled the above option please help

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  3. emily13 October 2013 at 01:49

    What a powerful little check box. Thanks for posting this, as I've been banging my head against a wall to get this sorted out on my site!

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  4. Arabic School17 October 2013 at 09:13

    I tried this and i found that this option was not chosen so I selected to redirected, but still didn’t work or get redirected when entering my domain without www. Any help?

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  5. Unknown22 October 2013 at 11:04

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  6. Unknown22 October 2013 at 11:08

    @Fahud Mahmood, have u got the solution. .??
    i am also suffering from the same error even when i have enabled the redirect option from my blogger dashboard.. Please reply

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  7. Elizabeth23 October 2013 at 18:58

    This was such a simple solution that I feel silly for overlooking it! Thank you for posting this as I am new to the whole DNS game haha.

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  8. Unknown2 November 2013 at 14:05

    Thanks For Sharing This nice info.We are find here always nice and top level info all time.Some Time my Site Show Error 404.
    SEO Blogger  Tricks

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  9. Anonymous8 November 2013 at 13:57

    Blogger no longer provides custom domain. Read on how to set up a custom domain in 30 minutes http://www.morldtechgossips.com/2013/11/how-to-get-and-install-custom-domain_7.html

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  10. blogging tutorials15 November 2013 at 00:08

    do i have to change all links inside my blog post which located to specific part in the post ? or it will be redirected to the new domain

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  11. Games Freezer16 November 2013 at 03:05

    Thanks for this, it worked!!!

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  12. The Meat Pie27 November 2013 at 06:33

    This does not work completely you need to add A Records....

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  13. whatsapp for pc30 November 2013 at 08:59

    its working but you need to put A records thanks

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  14. Kevin @ WarmingDrawerReview.com4 December 2013 at 08:11

    Just apply this on my new niche site : warmingdrawerreview.com

    Let's see if this really working, and you saved my life buddy :D

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  15. studioxcess10 December 2013 at 15:51

    Great post!!! do we canonicalization the url, is this gonna work ?

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  17. RajuSravani21 October 2018 at 14:04

    thanks for solving

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