Comments on: Resolving That "404 WWW" Blogger Issue

By: Darnell Clayton

Darnell Clayton — Wed, 29 Aug 2007 14:23:00 +0000

Hey Holmes221,

Thanks for letting me know!

As far as browsers go, I only use Firefox (my primary one) and IE7 (my back up).

I rarely use Opera, mainly because the internet looks "really ugly" through it (despite the fact that it is an excellent browser, aside from the beauty issues) and I no longer use IE6 because of security issues.

I'll check those sites to see if I can find a work around for those.

Thanks again for the info!

By: holmes221

holmes221 — Wed, 29 Aug 2007 12:20:00 +0000

are you aware that you haven’t solved your own problem?

I mean http://www.darnellclayton.com/ works but http://darnellclayton.com/ doesn’t.

http://darnellclayton.com/ only works in Firefox but not in IE6 and Opera9.

By: Hezron Mariano

Hezron Mariano — Thu, 21 Jun 2007 05:37:00 +0000

i blindly sign up to google apps with the iblogall.com as the domain. and after i signup for the google apps my blogger hosted blog which i usually publish on http://www.iblogall.com is now gone on internet i recieved “error404″ whenever i typed my domain.

I try to follow your instructions but unfortunately i can’t follow it clearly.

Can you help me with this problem?

I hope you can help me soon.

By: JP

JP — Wed, 06 Jun 2007 12:36:00 +0000

Thanks for this workaround. It went exactly as you outlined. I’m using GoDaddy and it took less than 24 hours for mydomain.com to turn around. Now I’ll actually look into using Google Apps since I signed up for it.

By: Chris Brown

Chris Brown — Sun, 20 May 2007 13:22:00 +0000

Darnell:
Thanks so much for the long answer.

Sounds like I should add to my own company's website with my blog, either using wordpress software or blogger software, but really plan on switching to something like:

blog/resources-results.com or
resources-results.com/blog rather than keep going with a separate domain for the company blog. right?

thanks!
Chris

By: Chris Brown

Chris Brown — Sat, 19 May 2007 09:39:00 +0000

Hi:
I'm at a blogger's crossroads. Last weekend went to SOBCon with 110 other bloggers. By far everyone was touting wordpress, but I've already got over 320 posts in blogspot and a pretty good ranking in links from like minded bloggers (part of my goal). Anyway, what are the advantages of custom blogger over wordpress other than not losing all my work to date?

Is it as flexible as wordpress. Plenty of widgets & plug ins?
Easier to use?
Etc?

thanks!

By: Steve

Steve — Sat, 20 Jan 2007 23:04:00 +0000

Thanks Darnell–I may be a little over my head. I just barely understand that crosstie.org is the real domain and http://www.crosstie is a sub (I think)! I’m going to cut services from GAFYD or delete my GAFYD account until it’s working again. Then I may give it another shot in a month. Maybe I can eventually transfer the domain to Google and streamline things.

By: Darnell Clayton

Darnell Clayton — Sat, 20 Jan 2007 18:10:00 +0000

Hey Steve,

From what I'm seeing, Google Apps and Blogger Custom Domain may not be compatable...at least not yet.

I visited your site and noticed the errors with a GoDaddy parked page, your "start" page, and a 404.

I would recommend creating a new subdomain (say "google") and have it either redirect to the "www" or to your start page.

In theory Blogger and Google Apps should work as long as blogger is not at "www" (because Google Apps uses this field by default).

But since both are unofficially "in beta" (sorry Google, there are still too many bugs) we will have to wait for both departments to work the bugs out of each of them.

By: Steve

Steve — Fri, 19 Jan 2007 20:28:00 +0000

UPDATE:
Today, my new subdomain for a start page (start.crosstie.org) works perfectly, but http://www.crosstie.org is down again with a generic 404 (not the nice orange one from Google). I’m baffled–they both are set as CNAME records with GoDaddy (start and www, both pointing to ghs.google.com) and worked last night even after the blogger outage. However, one is fully managed by GAFYD and my original blogger address (crosspurpose.blogspot.com) goes through the blogger custom domain process. Is it possible that the two Google applications cause the conflict? Do I need to create a second GAFYD for the original blogger address? Also, crosstie.org (no www) goes to a parked page with GoDaddy and seems oblivious. Any ideas?

By: Steve

Steve — Fri, 19 Jan 2007 02:14:00 +0000

Darnell,

Thanks for the help. I keep doing something similar and it works–for a day or so. Then I find I’m right back to the same place and it’s pretty annoying. Every couple of days, I just go back to forwarding my domain to the blog and give up for a bit, fancy URL or not.

What keeps changing? It worked fine when I just used a custom domain and hadn’t set up a Google apps account… I’m pretty tempted to delete it and live without my own email!