Another blog is already hosted at this address
Okay, this blog post is intended for those with situation as below:-
- You are blogspot blogger. :)) (Of course, you are)
- Bought domain at godaddy.com thru blogspot’s “purchase a domain”
- And lastly, you get “Another blog is already hosted at this address” when trying to point your blogspot to your new domain.
With the purchase of domain thru that, you will be given a googe apps account. You can retrieve the details in the email sent to you after your domain is purchased.
Solution:
1. Log in to your Google Apps account as administrator.
2. Go to Service Settings -> Sites
3. Go to Web address mapping
4. There will be one entry only namely www. Select it and delete the record. Proceed with all the delete warning and confirmation. It’s safe. No worry here.
![](http://www.hugolim.com/wp-content/uploads/2008/10/3.png "Select entry \\"www\\", delete it")
5. After you have finished with the deletion. Go to your blogspot dashboard and try to point to your new domain again. NOTE: In blogspot dashboard there, put your domain name with www prefix. Example: put www.hugolim.com instread of just hugolim.com and you do not need to check “redirect www.hugolim.com to hugolim.com”
6. That’s all. Very straightforward is’nt it. :D Happy blogging!
Technically, if this solution worked for you, then the reason why you getting this error would be…. google apps’s webservice(sites) is utilizing your domain thus your blogspot failed to get your domain linked up with it.
Resources:
I got by brain worked from these links:-
- http://blogging.nitecruzr.net/2007/06/another-blog-is-already-hosted-at-this.html
- http://www.consumingexperience.com/2007/01/blogger-google-apps-godaddy-custom.html
- http://www.hugolim.com/2008/05/setting-up-custom-domain-for-blogspot/
And if my solution above doesn’t work and you think its google’s database problem. Ask google to manually clear your domain from their database here https://spreadsheets.google.com/viewform?key=pZHHZdeYKeHitQbvxkvwnCg&email=true
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11 Responses to “Another blog is already hosted at this address”
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Jacob Rollin on October 27th, 2008
Thank you. You explain it very well unlike everyone else. Other people should learn to explain things like you. Thank you so much.
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Hugo Lim Reply:
February 5th, 2009 at 11:34 am
welcome welcome, glad my article helped!
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Tasses on January 31st, 2009
You have no idea how much this helped me. I have been trying to get anyone to help me from Google for five days. In 3 minutes, it was fixed with your tutorial. Thank you so much!
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Hugo Lim Reply:
February 5th, 2009 at 11:34 am
B-) thats a compliment! thankssssss. glad to help around :D
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deeheidz on April 28th, 2009
thanks so much for this! my head was breaking over this problem! you saved me! :D
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Hugo Lim Reply:
April 28th, 2009 at 9:14 pm
hahah no problem. glad to help!
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LP Sullivan on May 8th, 2009
Awesome! I couldn’t find a solution for so long, then I tripped on your site. A beer in your honor, sir…
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Hugo Lim Reply:
May 8th, 2009 at 11:53 am
surely no problem! glad it helps.. cheers~~~!!!!
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ShiverLady on May 23rd, 2009
I still have the same problem, unfortunately. I did not have another web address listed in my “Web Address Mapping” section, so I don’t know why I keep getting this error:
“Another blog is already hosted at this address”
when I try to merge the account to my new custom domain (yes, I purchased it through blogspot). So I am going the other route and asking Google to manually clear my domain. I hope it works. I will get back with you and let you know. Otherwise, I am clueless and will come back looking for more help! *crossing fingers*
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Hugo Lim Reply:
May 24th, 2009 at 9:49 pm
hey there, how’s the fix going on? if you really can’t fix the problem drop me an email, i will go through with you ya!
cheers~
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grrrrr_8 on June 11th, 2009
THANK YOU!!!!!!!
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