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This is in the Blogger directions, but not the directions I followed from Acorn:
  • Create 'A' NAME records for your naked domain (blog.com)
  • Creating A records for your naked domain is important as it allows Google to redirect people who use in your naked domain name (blog.com) to your blog page (www.example.com). If you do not do this, visitors who leave off the www will see an error page.
  • There are four separate A records you will create, and can be done from the same control panel you accessed your CNAME records. Simply point your naked domain (example.com, without the 'www') to each of the following IP addresses:
216.239.32.21
216.239.34.21
216.239.36.21
216.239.38.21
Would it behoove me to add this? Or is this not something I need to do based on how I am trying to set this up? I don't get what I would put in for what they call 'blog.com'..
No you don't want to do this. you aren't using a full domain on your blog, you are using a subdomain.
 
This is in the Blogger directions, but not the directions I followed from Acorn:
  • Create 'A' NAME records for your naked domain (blog.com)
  • Creating A records for your naked domain is important as it allows Google to redirect people who use in your naked domain name (blog.com) to your blog page (www.example.com). If you do not do this, visitors who leave off the www will see an error page.
  • There are four separate A records you will create, and can be done from the same control panel you accessed your CNAME records. Simply point your naked domain (example.com, without the 'www') to each of the following IP addresses:
216.239.32.21
216.239.34.21
216.239.36.21
216.239.38.21
Would it behoove me to add this? Or is this not something I need to do based on how I am trying to set this up? I don't get what I would put in for what they call 'blog.com'..
No you don't want to do this. you aren't using a full domain on your blog, you are using a subdomain.
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swirt said:
No you don't want to do this. you aren't using a full domain on your blog, you are using a subdomain.
Thanks. Will be trying this again on Monday. Not a happy camper here.
 
See if my dns helps you: http://www.iptools.com/dnstools.php?tool=dns&user_data=blog.vbwebsites.net&type=A
 
Morticia:
A quick fix would be to create a subdomain:
"Blog.yourinnname.com"
Then redirect the index page of this new subdomain to the url of your blog on blogger.
So: redirect http://Blog.yourinnname.com/index.html to -> http://yourinnname.blogspot.com
If your Hosting provider can't even support THAT, then THAT is ridiculous...you should be able to do it yourself if you managed to change your A records yourself. There is a should be a redirect URL feature with your package.
Now, if THAT doesn't work, you can do an HTTP/PHP redirect...where you create the subdomain, then inject a small code on the index page to redirect the user
Place this right under your title tag of your index.html page:
<meta HTTP-EQUIV="Refresh" CONTENT="1; URL=http://yourinnname.blogspot.com">
Let me know if that works for you!
 
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