5 Essential cPanel Settings for Beginners

<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on"><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="background-color: white;"><b><span style="color: red;">cPanel </span></b><span style="color: #333333;">is the leader and industry standard of standalone hosting platform nowadays. The main product <b>WHM/cPanel</b> has been used by most web-hosting providers due to its flexibility, and because it’s easy to manage,customizable and backed by great quality support.</span></span></span></div><div><span style="background-color: white; color: #333333;"><span style="font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif;"><br /></span></span></div><div style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><span style="font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif;"><img alt="Image result for c panel" src="https://www.drupal.org/files/project-images/cpanel_1.png" /></span></div><div style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><span style="font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif;"><br /></span></div><div style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="background-color: white; color: #333333; text-align: left;">Most of us who are involved in the web-hosting industry have heard of what it can do.If you are new to cPanel however, there are a few things that we would recommend that you do during the intial phase. Listed after the jump are 5 recommended initial setups for new cPanel users.</span><br style="background-color: white; color: #333333; position: relative; text-align: left; word-wrap: break-word;" /><a href="https://www.blogger.com/null" name="more" style="background-color: white; border: 0px; color: #00be98; font-stretch: inherit; font-variant-numeric: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; position: relative; text-align: left; vertical-align: baseline; word-wrap: break-word;"></a></span></div><h3 style="background-color: white; border: 0px; color: #333333; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 10px 0px; padding: 0px; position: relative; text-align: left; vertical-align: baseline; word-wrap: break-word;"><span style="font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: small;">1. Get a Strong Password</span></h3><br /><div style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="background-color: white; color: #333333; text-align: left;">Every user by default will get a username and password to login into the cPanel domain owner interface. The same login credential is applied to the default mysql database user, FTP account, email address and also system user login, which you can use to access the server remotely by using SSH (if the server administrator enables this feature).</span><br style="background-color: white; color: #333333; position: relative; text-align: left; word-wrap: break-word;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #333333; text-align: left;">Changing the cPanel login password is a critical first action. If someone is able to retrieve or guess your password, they will get all unwarranted privileges to the server, which is dangerous.</span><br style="background-color: white; color: #333333; position: relative; text-align: left; word-wrap: break-word;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #333333; text-align: left;">There are some cases where a valid user’s registered email account has been hacked into and taken over by a hacker. Inside the email Inbox was the login credential for his cPanel account. When the owner wanted to reset the password (which had been changed by the hacker), he had to contact the web hosting provider. The problem is he needed to use the registered email address for verification as the account owner; nothing can be done.</span><br style="background-color: white; color: #333333; position: relative; text-align: left; word-wrap: break-word;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #333333; text-align: left;">A good password practice should be applied to prevent this kind of problems. Some tips for password management best practice:</span></span></div><ul style="background-color: white; border: 0px; color: #333333; font-stretch: inherit; font-variant-numeric: inherit; line-height: inherit; list-style-image: initial; list-style-position: outside; margin: 1.5em 0px 1.5em 3em; padding: 0px; position: relative; vertical-align: baseline; word-wrap: break-word;"><li style="border: 0px; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0.5em 0px; padding: 0px; position: relative; vertical-align: baseline; word-wrap: break-word;"><span style="font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif;">Change your password frequently</span></li><li style="border: 0px; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0.5em 0px; padding: 0px; position: relative; vertical-align: baseline; word-wrap: break-word;"><span style="font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif;">Avoid dictionary words</span></li><li style="border: 0px; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0.5em 0px; padding: 0px; position: relative; vertical-align: baseline; word-wrap: break-word;"><span style="font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif;">Avoid familiar items like birth date, vehicle registration number or phone number</span></li><li style="border: 0px; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0.5em 0px; padding: 0px; position: relative; vertical-align: baseline; word-wrap: break-word;"><span style="font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif;">Use a combination of letters, numbers and symbols</span></li><li style="border: 0px; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0.5em 0px; padding: 0px; position: relative; vertical-align: baseline; word-wrap: break-word;"><span style="font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif;">Use more than 8 characters</span></li><li style="border: 0px; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0.5em 0px; padding: 0px; position: relative; vertical-align: baseline; word-wrap: break-word;"><span style="font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif;">Do not ‘remember’ your password in the browser</span></li></ul><h3 style="background-color: white; border: 0px; color: #333333; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 10px 0px; padding: 0px; position: relative; vertical-align: baseline; word-wrap: break-word;"><span style="font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: small;">2. Understand the server environment</span></h3><div style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="background-color: white; color: #333333; text-align: left;">Make sure you totally understand the server environment before use. Some key things which you need to know are the server operating system and architecture, kernel version, applications (cpanel,apache, php, mysql, perl) version, IP address and hosting package limitation. You can get this information on the main page which usually appears on the sidebar of the cPanel interface. A good hosting server should be run on the updated version of the kernel and applications under 64 bit architecture (x86_64).</span></span></div><div class="sw" style="background-color: white; border: 0px; color: #333333; font-stretch: inherit; font-variant-numeric: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; position: relative; vertical-align: baseline; word-wrap: break-word;"><span style="font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif;"><img alt="Server Environment" height="350" src="http://media02.hongkiat.com/cpanel-settings-for-beginners/server-environment.jpg" style="border: 1px solid rgb(218, 218, 218); font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; height: auto; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; max-width: 100%; padding: 4px; position: relative; vertical-align: baseline; word-wrap: break-word;" width="213" /></span></div><div style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="background-color: white; color: #333333; text-align: left;">The cPanel user should also check the cPanel Service Status (cPanel > Stats > Service Status). You can know how many CPUs are running on the server, total memory usage and also disk space status from here. Inspecting this feature will give you more information about the server’s real-time condition. Make sure all services are up and running as expected. A stable server should run at below 80% of disk usage and below 10% of swap; the server load average should be below 2 times the total number of CPU.</span></span></div><h3 style="background-color: white; border: 0px; color: #333333; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 10px 0px; padding: 0px; position: relative; vertical-align: baseline; word-wrap: break-word;"><span style="font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: small;">3. Check permission (File and directory)</span></h3><div style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="background-color: white; color: #333333; text-align: left;">cPanel users by default will get a home directory under /home/{username}. All files and directories under the user’s home directory should be run on respective permission and ownership. The most critical directory which should be run under correct permission and ownership is public_html. But, before we proceed with the checking, you should know how PHP is handled inside the cPanel server.</span><br style="background-color: white; color: #333333; position: relative; text-align: left; word-wrap: break-word;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #333333; text-align: left;">Create a phpinfo page under public_html. Access the page via browser and check the value of "Server API".</span></span></div><div class="sw" style="background-color: white; border: 0px; color: #333333; font-stretch: inherit; font-variant-numeric: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; position: relative; vertical-align: baseline; word-wrap: break-word;"><span style="font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif;"><img alt="Server API" height="300" src="http://media02.hongkiat.com/cpanel-settings-for-beginners/server-api.jpg" style="border: 1px solid rgb(218, 218, 218); font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; height: auto; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; max-width: 100%; padding: 4px; position: relative; vertical-align: baseline; word-wrap: break-word;" width="500" /></span></div><div style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="background-color: white; color: #333333; text-align: left;">If the value is CGI/FastCGI, then the PHP handler is either suPHP, FastCGI or CGI. Most web hosting provider will use suPHP instead due to security verification and as it is the default handler for cPanel servers. Under this handler, PHP executed as a different process alongside Apache. All file permission should be run under 644, and directory permission, under 755. Permissions higher than this will result in "Internal Server Error" whenever the PHP script is executed.</span></span></div><div class="sw" style="background-color: white; border: 0px; color: #333333; font-stretch: inherit; font-variant-numeric: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; position: relative; vertical-align: baseline; word-wrap: break-word;"><span style="font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif;"><img alt="Server API" height="251" src="http://media02.hongkiat.com/cpanel-settings-for-beginners/server-api-2.jpg" style="border: 1px solid rgb(218, 218, 218); font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; height: auto; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; max-width: 100%; padding: 4px; position: relative; vertical-align: baseline; word-wrap: break-word;" width="500" /></span></div><div style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="background-color: white; color: #333333; text-align: left;">If the value is Apache 2.0 Handler, then you are running PHP under DSO. This handler does not require strict file permission and ownership because the PHP file is totally being handled by Apache. But it is still recommended to have same permission practice as advised in CGI/FastCGI method.</span><br style="background-color: white; color: #333333; position: relative; text-align: left; word-wrap: break-word;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #333333; text-align: left;">You can use cPanel File Manager, FTP client or SSH access (if allowed) to fix the permission and ownership issue. Do not forget to delete the phpinfo page after the information that you want is retrieved.</span></span></div><h3 style="background-color: white; border: 0px; color: #333333; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 10px 0px; padding: 0px; position: relative; vertical-align: baseline; word-wrap: break-word;"><span style="font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: small;">4. Add some protection</span></h3><div style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="background-color: white; color: #333333; text-align: left;">Even though protection and security is totally under server administrator responsibility, cPanel users can take advantage of cPanel flexibilities in adding some protection to your website, domain and cPanel account.</span></span></div><div class="sw" style="background-color: white; border: 0px; color: #333333; font-stretch: inherit; font-variant-numeric: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; position: relative; vertical-align: baseline; word-wrap: break-word;"><span style="font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif;"><img alt="Default Address Maintenance" height="229" src="http://media02.hongkiat.com/cpanel-settings-for-beginners/def-add-maintenance.jpg" style="border: 1px solid rgb(218, 218, 218); font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; height: auto; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; max-width: 100%; padding: 4px; position: relative; vertical-align: baseline; word-wrap: break-word;" width="500" /></span></div><div style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="background-color: white; color: #333333; text-align: left;">Make sure Spam Assassin (cPanel > Mail > Spam Assassin) is enabled. Some web hosting provider do not enable this feature by default because newly registered domain usually do not receive many spam emails. Discard all unrouted email under Default Address (cPanel > Mail > Default Address) with error to sender at SMTP time. Do not use the "blackhole" or "forward to email address" options unless you really need it. Hackers can take advantage of these 2 features to create a DOS attack for the SMTP service.</span></span></div><div class="sw" style="background-color: white; border: 0px; color: #333333; font-stretch: inherit; font-variant-numeric: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; position: relative; vertical-align: baseline; word-wrap: break-word;"><span style="font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif;"><img alt="FrontPage Extensions" height="142" src="http://media02.hongkiat.com/cpanel-settings-for-beginners/frontpage-extensions.jpg" style="border: 1px solid rgb(218, 218, 218); font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; height: auto; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; max-width: 100%; padding: 4px; position: relative; vertical-align: baseline; word-wrap: break-word;" width="500" /></span></div><div style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="background-color: white; color: #333333; text-align: left;">Disable Frontpage if it is not used (cPanel > Advanced > FrontPage Extensions). Microsoft has discontinued FrontPage extension support for the Unix platform and recently many web hosting provider had observed severe intrusion attempts via FrontPage vulnerabilities.</span></span></div><div class="sw" style="background-color: white; border: 0px; color: #333333; font-stretch: inherit; font-variant-numeric: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; position: relative; vertical-align: baseline; word-wrap: break-word;"><span style="font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif;"><img alt="Disable_functions" height="85" src="http://media02.hongkiat.com/cpanel-settings-for-beginners/disable-functions.jpg" style="border: 1px solid rgb(218, 218, 218); font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; height: auto; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; max-width: 100%; padding: 4px; position: relative; vertical-align: baseline; word-wrap: break-word;" width="500" /></span></div><div style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="background-color: white; color: #333333; text-align: left;">Check the PHP disabled_function using phpinfo page. Make sure all critical functions have been disabled inside the server. If not, create a php.ini file under public_html and add the following line:</span><br style="background-color: white; color: #333333; position: relative; text-align: left; word-wrap: break-word;" /><code style="background-color: white; border: 0px; color: #333333; font-stretch: inherit; font-variant-numeric: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; position: relative; text-align: left; vertical-align: baseline; word-wrap: break-word;"><b>disable_functions=exec, passthru, shell_exec,system, proc_open, popen, curl_exec, curl_m ulti_exec, parse_ini_file, show_source</b></code></span></div><div class="sw" style="background-color: white; border: 0px; color: #333333; font-stretch: inherit; font-variant-numeric: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; position: relative; vertical-align: baseline; word-wrap: break-word;"><span style="font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif;"><img alt="" height="228" src="http://media02.hongkiat.com/cpanel-settings-for-beginners/hotlink-protection.jpg" style="border: 1px solid rgb(218, 218, 218); font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; height: auto; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; max-width: 100%; padding: 4px; position: relative; vertical-align: baseline; word-wrap: break-word;" width="282" /></span></div><div style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="background-color: white; color: #333333; text-align: left;">Enable hotlink protection (cPanel > Security > Hotlink Protection) to prevent others from stealing your bandwidth. People might just link your image to their websites, making it part of their contents. Only allow your websites URL to access static contents like .jpg, .jpeg, .gif, .png and .bmp.</span></span></div><h3 style="background-color: white; border: 0px; color: #333333; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 10px 0px; padding: 0px; position: relative; vertical-align: baseline; word-wrap: break-word;"><span style="font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: small;">5. Notification and Monitoring</span></h3><div style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="background-color: white; color: #333333; text-align: left;">It is required to put a secondary email to receive notification by cPanel. By default, the user’s registered email will always be the primary contact. Under Update Contact Info (cPanel > Preferences > Update Contact Info), add a secondary email as a backup in case the primary email is unreachable.</span><br style="background-color: white; color: #333333; position: relative; text-align: left; word-wrap: break-word;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #333333; text-align: left;">Subscribe to any monitoring tools available online to monitor your website and domain availability. Even though some web hosting providers offer this service for free, you might need to have another external monitoring point for more accurate results. Make sure you configure the monitoring system to trigger and send alerts to your email so you will receive notifications immediately. Sites like http://www.monitor.us and http://www.siteuptime.com offer free monitoring tools based on geographical locations.</span></span></div><h3 style="background-color: white; border: 0px; color: #333333; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 10px 0px; padding: 0px; position: relative; vertical-align: baseline; word-wrap: break-word;"><span style="font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: small;">Conclusion</span></h3><div style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em; text-align: justify;"><span style="background-color: white; color: #333333; text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif;">This article is not intended for new cPanel users only. It also serves as a reminder for those who already familiar with cPanel as well. By practising these best configuration practices it may help you to become a better and more responsible website/domain owner.</span></span></div><br /><span style="font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif;"><br /></span><span style="background-color: white; color: #333333;"><span style="font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif;"><br /></span></span><span style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: Verdana, Geneva, sans-serif; font-size: 12px;"><br /></span></div>

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How To Setup/Host Custom Domain On Blogger

<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on"> <span style="font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif;"><span style="background-color: white; color: #333333;">Blogger has already introduced custom domain name. If you purchase a domain name through Blogger, there’s no issue in setting it up because Blogger automatically configures CNAME. However if you purchased the domain name separately, you have to manually configure it. This post I’m going to show you how to host your own domain name on Blogger. </span><a href="https://www.blogger.com/null" name="more" style="background-color: white; border: 0px; color: #999999; font-stretch: inherit; font-variant-numeric: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; position: relative; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; word-wrap: break-word;"></a><span style="background-color: white; color: #333333;"></span><br style="background-color: white; color: #333333; position: relative; word-wrap: break-word;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #333333;">Mainly you have to follow 4 major steps, they are: </span></span><br /> <ol style="background-color: white; border: 0px; color: #333333; font-stretch: inherit; font-variant-numeric: inherit; line-height: inherit; list-style-image: initial; list-style-position: outside; margin: 1.5em 0px 1.5em 3em; padding: 0px; position: relative; vertical-align: baseline; word-wrap: break-word;"> <li style="border: 0px; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0.5em 0px; padding: 0px; position: relative; vertical-align: baseline; word-wrap: break-word;"><span style="font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif;">Adding custom domain on Blogger</span></li> <li style="border: 0px; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0.5em 0px; padding: 0px; position: relative; vertical-align: baseline; word-wrap: break-word;"><span style="font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif;">Getting your domain ownership verification token</span></li> <li style="border: 0px; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0.5em 0px; padding: 0px; position: relative; vertical-align: baseline; word-wrap: break-word;"><span style="font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif;">Change DNS (Domain Name System) settings</span></li> <li style="border: 0px; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0.5em 0px; padding: 0px; position: relative; vertical-align: baseline; word-wrap: break-word;"><span style="font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif;">Verifying Domain name ownership on Blogger</span></li> </ol> <span style="font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif;"><span style="background-color: white; color: #333333;">If you don’t have a Blogger account first you have to create it, if you have a Google account you already have a Blogger account, so just log-in to Blogger. </span></span><br /> <h4 style="background-color: white; border: 0px; color: #333333; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 10px 0px; padding: 0px; position: relative; vertical-align: baseline; word-wrap: break-word;"> <span style="font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif;"><br style="position: relative; word-wrap: break-word;" />Step 1: Adding custom domain on Blogger</span></h4> <ol style="background-color: white; border: 0px; font-stretch: inherit; font-variant-numeric: inherit; line-height: inherit; list-style-image: initial; list-style-position: outside; margin: 1.5em 0px 1.5em 3em; padding: 0px; position: relative; vertical-align: baseline; word-wrap: break-word;"> <li style="border: 0px; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0.5em 0px; padding: 0px; position: relative; vertical-align: baseline; word-wrap: break-word;"><span style="font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif;"><span style="color: #333333; font-weight: inherit;">Go to </span><a href="http://www.blogger.com/" rel="nofollow" style="border: 0px; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; position: relative; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; word-wrap: break-word;" target="_blank"><span style="color: blue;"><b>http://www.blogger.com/</b></span></a><span style="color: #333333; font-weight: inherit;">.</span></span></li> <li style="border: 0px; color: #333333; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0.5em 0px; padding: 0px; position: relative; vertical-align: baseline; word-wrap: break-word;"><span style="font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif;">Now if you already have a blog, select which blog should use the new custom domain name.</span></li> <li style="border: 0px; color: #333333; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0.5em 0px; padding: 0px; position: relative; vertical-align: baseline; word-wrap: break-word;"><span style="font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif;"><span style="font-weight: inherit;">Go to your selected blog's </span><b>“Settings > Basic”.</b><span style="border-image: initial; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; height: auto; line-height: inherit; margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img alt="blogger settings" border="0" height="103" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEibzLUVqWcijSbTSAyr6ZNkBDpUGC6awyDWqQcEjLMGMwUFN7qonIxH_QiE38mSotph0p18uQGNhdhHBpY9-VeWJLd_4KTl9EKURmCkz3hYE-6iniotDtxtR83nCUJril0CaUpxKm_3v-k/?imgmax=800" style="border: 0px solid rgb(218, 218, 218); display: block; float: none; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; height: auto; line-height: inherit; margin: 10px auto 0px; max-width: 100%; padding: 4px; position: relative; vertical-align: baseline; word-wrap: break-word;" title="blogger settings" width="450" /></span></span></li> <li style="border: 0px; color: #333333; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0.5em 0px; padding: 0px; position: relative; vertical-align: baseline; word-wrap: break-word;"><span style="font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif;"><a href="https://www.blogger.com/null" name="more" style="border: 0px; color: #00be98; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; position: relative; vertical-align: baseline; word-wrap: break-word;"></a>Under the “Publishing”, click “Add custom domain”.</span><img alt="add custom domain" border="0" height="93" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhmMFQty91xDaKvjQos_IWuMjNK_jpq6XHgsj7591jASc_J8-g0YavLS9I-LBWwY26wXZ7Eyaq984l4dTMcJUZhNrWaa_ew64nOxOGecMYtxJL38n5OQA_mgdB7MUVEEKiraNP5ZBNdXDE/?imgmax=800" style="border: 0px solid rgb(218, 218, 218); display: block; float: none; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; height: auto; line-height: inherit; margin: 10px auto 20px; max-width: 100%; padding: 4px; position: relative; vertical-align: baseline; word-wrap: break-word;" title="add custom domain" width="450" /></li> <li style="border: 0px; color: #333333; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0.5em 0px; padding: 0px; position: relative; vertical-align: baseline; word-wrap: break-word;"><span style="font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif;">Now in the “Advanced settings” type your new domain name URL.</span><img alt="custom domain name" border="0" height="228" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiVDEXMYJrczquHylPEVv1nhjsacw7FElSC0T3DPBbQvw9ysxv5vIuXPjjoSclaTl2p4lMP5XsUeeVwdo2C5e4cQ1h9I94U4u2vbnRbA07Gqo3RUlzuYkRBKtk4yTcgRXHbpDPWgQXhkLk/?imgmax=800" style="border: 0px solid rgb(218, 218, 218); display: block; float: none; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; height: auto; line-height: inherit; margin: 10px auto 15px; max-width: 100%; padding: 4px; position: relative; vertical-align: baseline; word-wrap: break-word;" title="custom domain name" width="450" /></li> <li style="border: 0px; color: #333333; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0.5em 0px; padding: 0px; position: relative; vertical-align: baseline; word-wrap: break-word;"><span style="font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif;">Click “Save” button. Then Blogger should display this error: “We have not been able to verify your authority to this domain. Error 12. Please follow the settings instructions.”</span></li> <li style="border: 0px; color: #333333; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0.5em 0px; padding: 0px; position: relative; vertical-align: baseline; word-wrap: break-word;"><span style="font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif;">Click “settings instructions”. If you click this link before that error (above), you can’t configure CNAME correctly.</span></li> </ol> <h4 style="background-color: white; border: 0px; color: #333333; font-stretch: normal; font-weight: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 10px 0px; padding: 0px; position: relative; vertical-align: baseline; word-wrap: break-word;"> <span style="font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif;"><br style="position: relative; word-wrap: break-word;" />Step 2: Getting your domain ownership verification token</span></h4> <ol style="background-color: white; border: 0px; color: #333333; font-stretch: inherit; font-variant-numeric: inherit; line-height: inherit; list-style-image: initial; list-style-position: outside; margin: 1.5em 0px 1.5em 3em; padding: 0px; position: relative; vertical-align: baseline; word-wrap: break-word;"> <li style="border: 0px; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0.5em 0px; padding: 0px; position: relative; vertical-align: baseline; word-wrap: break-word;"><span style="font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif;">Now you will be redirected to the “How do I use a custom domain name for my blog?” page.</span></li> <li style="border: 0px; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0.5em 0px; padding: 0px; position: relative; vertical-align: baseline; word-wrap: break-word;"><span style="font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif;">On this page, tick the “On a top-level domain (www.example.com).” option.</span><img alt="host location" border="0" height="188" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiTQ0BWly3w1iBwT1JQujx_8PgO5lcJgDgFkRg8uvFMjdIl_x_3p55wpMYZeMMRX4T7-lCy1o6i1smAgF22eph2UOSKDWivH1uHpay31WcTYyU61nVjmwPCKSDA8-ZQvbXznZ9ZG_3Ab_I/?imgmax=800" style="border: 0px solid rgb(218, 218, 218); display: block; float: none; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; height: auto; line-height: inherit; margin: 5px auto 10px; max-width: 100%; padding: 4px; position: relative; vertical-align: baseline; word-wrap: break-word;" title="host location" width="350" /></li> <li style="border: 0px; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0.5em 0px; padding: 0px; position: relative; vertical-align: baseline; word-wrap: break-word;"><span style="font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif;">Once you’ve chosen an option, setup instructions appear. At the beginning of the instructions you should see something similar to the screenshot below.</span><img alt="cname ownership verification code" border="0" height="105" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjIPl1l9Efk1f6G2a8sEZc8ZnJN17xEnIWe-BZFnHT2aO2mLdh3l94axulUoV3PbhYAcZRw6M_JpG7_3Lz0RtAkT6OKBauDlw7-ITHnYRp8OVVCzQToPeBqhCMcwy14dulmi1gGO3gWuew/?imgmax=800" style="border: 0px solid rgb(218, 218, 218); display: block; float: none; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; height: auto; line-height: inherit; margin: 10px auto 15px; max-width: 100%; padding: 4px; position: relative; vertical-align: baseline; word-wrap: break-word;" title="cname ownership verification code" width="500" /><span style="font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif;">Pay attention to the two codes highlighted in the screenshot. Those are your domain ownership token. In my example the codes are “J6VKJNRFUXD3" and “gv-JWLTPCFOOA27RPMP3PPRPPW4KZUGVEMMZK365WBH4UHOPYEFUBMA.domainverify.googlehosted.com.”. <b style="border: 0px; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; position: relative; vertical-align: baseline; word-wrap: break-word;">Your token will be different</b>. </span></li> </ol> <h4 style="background-color: white; border: 0px; color: #333333; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 10px 0px; padding: 0px; position: relative; vertical-align: baseline; word-wrap: break-word;"> <span style="font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif;"><br style="position: relative; word-wrap: break-word;" />Step 3: Change DNS settings</span></h4> <ol style="background-color: white; border: 0px; color: #333333; font-stretch: inherit; font-variant-numeric: inherit; line-height: inherit; list-style-image: initial; list-style-position: outside; margin: 1.5em 0px 1.5em 3em; padding: 0px; position: relative; vertical-align: baseline; word-wrap: break-word;"> <li style="border: 0px; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0.5em 0px; padding: 0px; position: relative; vertical-align: baseline; word-wrap: break-word;"><span style="font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif;">Go to your domain name registrar’s “DNS console” panel and log-in.</span></li> <li style="border: 0px; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0.5em 0px; padding: 0px; position: relative; vertical-align: baseline; word-wrap: break-word;"><span style="font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif;">Navigate to the “Host Records” click edit.</span></li> <li style="border: 0px; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0.5em 0px; padding: 0px; position: relative; vertical-align: baseline; word-wrap: break-word;"><span style="font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif;">Add a CNAME (Canonical Name) record.</span><ul style="border: 0px; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: inherit; list-style: disc outside; margin: 1.5em 0px 1.5em 3em; padding: 0px; position: relative; vertical-align: baseline; word-wrap: break-word;"> <li style="border: 0px; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0.5em 0px; padding: 0px; position: relative; vertical-align: baseline; word-wrap: break-word;"><span style="font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif;">For Host Name/Name/Label or Host” field, enter “www” without quotes and</span></li> <li style="border: 0px; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0.5em 0px; padding: 0px; position: relative; vertical-align: baseline; word-wrap: break-word;"><span style="font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif;">For Address/Destination/Target or Points To field, enter “ghs.google.com” without the quotes.</span></li> </ul> </li> <li style="border: 0px; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0.5em 0px; padding: 0px; position: relative; vertical-align: baseline; word-wrap: break-word;"><span style="font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif;">Now add another CNAME record. This is for domain ownership verification. </span><ul style="border: 0px; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: inherit; list-style: disc outside; margin: 1.5em 0px 1.5em 3em; padding: 0px; position: relative; vertical-align: baseline; word-wrap: break-word;"> <li style="border: 0px; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0.5em 0px; padding: 0px; position: relative; vertical-align: baseline; word-wrap: break-word;"><span style="font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif;">In the Host Name field, paste the first code you get in step 2.3, ex: "J6VKJNRFUXD3".</span></li> <li style="border: 0px; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0.5em 0px; padding: 0px; position: relative; vertical-align: baseline; word-wrap: break-word;"><span style="font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif;">In the Destination field, paste the second code, ex: “gv-JWLTPCFOOA27RPMP3PPRPPW4KZUGVEMMZK365WBH4UHOPYEFUBMA.domainverify.googlehosted.com.”.</span></li> </ul> <span style="font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif;">(<b style="border: 0px; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; position: relative; vertical-align: baseline; word-wrap: break-word;">Use your own codes generated in step 2.3</b>, don’t use the two codes above).</span></li> <li style="border: 0px; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0.5em 0px; padding: 0px; position: relative; vertical-align: baseline; word-wrap: break-word;"><span style="font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif;">Now we should add A (Address) records. If you already have A records, modify them. If not, click “Add” button.</span></li> <li style="border: 0px; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0.5em 0px; padding: 0px; position: relative; vertical-align: baseline; word-wrap: break-word;"><span style="font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif;">You have to add 4 separate A records, pointing to the following Google IP addresses:</span><ul style="border: 0px; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: inherit; list-style: disc outside; margin: 1.5em 0px 1.5em 3em; padding: 0px; position: relative; vertical-align: baseline; word-wrap: break-word;"> <li style="border: 0px; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0.5em 0px; padding: 0px; position: relative; vertical-align: baseline; word-wrap: break-word;"><span style="font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif;">216.239.32.21</span></li> <li style="border: 0px; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0.5em 0px; padding: 0px; position: relative; vertical-align: baseline; word-wrap: break-word;"><span style="font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif;">216.239.34.21</span></li> <li style="border: 0px; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0.5em 0px; padding: 0px; position: relative; vertical-align: baseline; word-wrap: break-word;"><span style="font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif;">216.239.36.21</span></li> <li style="border: 0px; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0.5em 0px; padding: 0px; position: relative; vertical-align: baseline; word-wrap: break-word;"><span style="font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif;">216.239.38.21</span></li> </ul> </li> <li style="border: 0px; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0.5em 0px; padding: 0px; position: relative; vertical-align: baseline; word-wrap: break-word;"><span style="font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif;">Enter each IP into an “Address” field. In the corresponding “Host Name” field, enter your domain’s naked URL (without “www”, e.g example.com).</span><img alt="blogger custom domain dns settings" border="0" height="199" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgn4aY6yB5IlJahxPVFTxe2i8yaUB6oxAPDwWxc8spUkU50dQ6xuTUfBRAVdmTPnRziUaZoIpGQ05vWmF99G1jnFqgn2Ye_bqmvTzBoxFKfoNsa_bhHMQkV2kyR1QCgXCGYktcgUY6H0Nk/?imgmax=800" style="border: 0px solid rgb(218, 218, 218); display: block; float: none; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; height: auto; line-height: inherit; margin: 10px auto 15px; max-width: 100%; padding: 4px; position: relative; vertical-align: baseline; word-wrap: break-word;" title="blogger custom domain dns settings" width="500" /></li> <li style="border: 0px; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0.5em 0px; padding: 0px; position: relative; vertical-align: baseline; word-wrap: break-word;"><span style="font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif;">Finally click “Save” button and wait for a few minutes to update all your domain settings.</span></li> </ol> <h4 style="background-color: white; border: 0px; color: #333333; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 10px 0px; padding: 0px; position: relative; vertical-align: baseline; word-wrap: break-word;"> <span style="font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif;"><br style="position: relative; word-wrap: break-word;" />Step 4: Update your Blogger settings</span></h4> <ol style="background-color: white; border: 0px; color: #333333; font-stretch: inherit; font-variant-numeric: inherit; line-height: inherit; list-style-image: initial; list-style-position: outside; margin: 1.5em 0px 1.5em 3em; padding: 0px; position: relative; vertical-align: baseline; word-wrap: break-word;"> <li style="border: 0px; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0.5em 0px; padding: 0px; position: relative; vertical-align: baseline; word-wrap: break-word;"><span style="font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif;">Now go back to “Settings > Basic > Publishing” on Blogger and again enter your custom domain name with “www”.</span></li> <li style="border: 0px; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0.5em 0px; padding: 0px; position: relative; vertical-align: baseline; word-wrap: break-word;"><span style="font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif;">Tick “redirect” option.</span></li> <li style="border: 0px; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0.5em 0px; padding: 0px; position: relative; vertical-align: baseline; word-wrap: break-word;"><span style="font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif;">Finally click “Save” button. If it again displays “Unable to verify authority…” error, wait for a few hours to update your DNS settings and again add your domain name. This time no need to follow Host Records modifications, just add domain name to Blogger publishing section.</span></li> <li style="border: 0px; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0.5em 0px; padding: 0px; position: relative; vertical-align: baseline; word-wrap: break-word;"><span style="font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif;">That’s it, now your blog has a custom domain name.</span></li> </ol> </div>

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