How to Completely Setup Custom Domain with Blogger?

This step will guide you that How to Completely Setup Custom Domain with Blogger using Domain Registrar DNS manager.

1. Go to blogger.com
2. Sign in to your blogger account from which you made your website.
3. Navigate to the “Settings” of your website from blogger dashboard.
4. Scroll down to the publishing section.
5. Click on the “Custom Domain” option.
6. Add your domain name in the field and click on the “Save” button.

   Note: You must use subdomain or www with your domain else it won’t be added.

7. You will get two CNAME records in the error message which you will have to add.
8. The error message will look like.

   We have not been able to verify your authority to this domain. On your domain registrar’s website, locate your Domain Name System (DNS) settings and enter the following two CNAMEs: (Name: www, Destination: ghs.google.com) and (Name: mauw2gkrsaip, Destination: gv-kbfemu4u4hmme2.dv.googlehosted.com). See https://support.google.com/blogger/answer/1233387 for detailed instructions.

9. From the above error message we found two CNAME records to be added.
   1. www                                    CNAME                ghs.google.com
   2. mauw2gkrsaip               CNAME                kbfemu4u4hmme2.dv.googlehosted.com
10. Now, open your domain registrar website and login.
11. Go to client area.
12. Navigate to “Manage DNS Records”.

    Every domain registrar have different interface but you will be able to find DNS manager in there client area.

13. Now, add two CNAME records as founded in the error message.
14. After adding CNAME records, click on the “Save Changes” button.
15. Now navigate back to the tab where you were adding custom domain.
16. Click on the “Save” button to save your custom domain.

    DNS Propagation take some time, in some cases it takes 24-48 hours, so you will have to wait for DNS propagation to complete.

17. After adding domain, it will take sometime to become active.
18. From “HTTPS” section, enable both “HTTPS availability” and “HTTPS redirect” options.
19. From “Publishing” section enable “Redirect Domain” option to redirect yourdomain.tld to www.yourdomain.tld

This step will guide you that How to Completely Setup Custom Domain with Blogger using Cloudflare.

1. Go to blogger.com
2. Sign in to your blogger account from which you made your website.
3. Navigate to the “Settings” of your website from blogger dashboard.
4. Scroll down to the publishing section.
5. Click on the “Custom Domain” option.
6. Add your domain name in the field and click on the “Save” button.

   Note: You must use subdomain or www with your domain else it won’t be added.

7. You will get two CNAME records in the error message which you will have to add.
8. The error message will look like.

   We have not been able to verify your authority to this domain. On your domain registrar’s website, locate your Domain Name System (DNS) settings and enter the following two CNAMEs: (Name: www, Destination: ghs.google.com) and (Name: mauw2gkrsaip, Destination: gv-kbfemu4u4hmme2.dv.googlehosted.com). See https://support.google.com/blogger/answer/1233387 for detailed instructions.

9. From the above error message we found two CNAME records to be added.

   1. www                        CNAME                ghs.google.com

   2. mauw2gkrsaip               CNAME                kbfemu4u4hmme2.dv.googlehosted.com

10. Go to Cloudflare Dashboard.
11. Login or signup with cloudflare.
12. After logging in or signing up, click on the “Add a Site” button.
13. After that, enter your domain name in the field, e.g. aavidtutorials.ml

    Subdomains not allowed!

14. Click on the “Add Site” button.
15. Select your desired plan. I went with “Free” plan.
16. Click on the “Continue” button.
17. It will scan for existing DNS records.
18. If you have already went with first method, then it will fetch “www” CNAME record and the second one you will have to add manually. If you haven’t went with first method, then you have to add both CNAME records.
19. After adding CNAME records de-proxy them from cloudflare.
20. Click on the “Continue” button.
21. Copy Cloudflare’s nameservers.
22. Go to your domain registrar client area and login.
23. Navigate to “Nameservers” section.

    Every domain registrar have different interface so text of section can be different but it will include “Nameservers” in it.

24. Add your cloudflare nameservers in respective fields. e.g. First NS record of cloudflare will go in first field of “Nameservers” section and Second NS record of cloudflare will go in second field of “Nameservers”.
25. After adding Nameservers, click on the “Done, Check Nameservers” button.

    DNS Propagation will take sometime. Usually it takes few hours but in some cases it can take 24 to 72 hours. You will have to wait for DNS propagation to complete

26. After that, you have to set basic settings for security and performance.
27. After setting it up, click on the “Continue” button.
28. It will take sometime for the domain to become active with blogger so you have to wait for that.

    Follow next steps only if you have setup your domain as www.yourdomain.tld instead of subdomain.

29. After adding domain with blogger, you may want to redirect “maindomain.tld” to “www.maindomain.tld” as your site will be serving through that. e.g. “aavidtutorials.ml” to “www.aavidtutorials.ml”.
30. For that, go to DNS section of your website from cloudflare dashboard.
31. Add this CNAME record.

    @                        CNAME                www.@

32. After adding this CNAME record, navigate to “Rules”
33. Click on the “Create Page Rule” button.
34. Add the following rule.

    If the URL matches:
    yourdomain.tld/*
    
    Then the settings are:
    Forwarding URL           301 - Permanent Redirect
    https://www.yourdomain.tld/$1

35. Through above rule we are redirecting any traffic to yourdomain.tld to www.yourdomain.tld. e.g. aavidtutorials.ml to www.aavidtutorials.ml
36. After adding that rule, click on the “Save” button.
37. Now you are done!