I'm having a blog with blogger on a custom domain(www.mydomain.com) domain is registered with Godaddy.But now i also want forum in the subdomain like "forums.mydomain.com" or "www.mydomain.com/forums".
Since blogger doesn't allow the second option,how can i build a forum in the subdomain.
p.s I already have a reseller hosting account
Please help me..
I'm already having a hosting account and how do redirect the subdomain of my blog to that space.I have installed the forum software in that space.
Do i have to change anything like CNAME or A record or something like that in the godaddy control panel.
Yes, it should be possible.
Go to your Domain Control Panel and create the sub-domain and set a path to it.
For ex:- forum.domain.com path: public_html/forum
Since, your domain is hosted in xyz hosting company. You must have already set its name servers.
All you have done is created a CNAME records so that domain points to blogger.
Although, your domain is pointing to blogger, you can still create sub-domain and A record will be pointed to your hosting account. If this does not work contact your hosting Company and tell them to point forum.domain.com to your hosting account IP.
Check out this article http://www.drudam.com/2009/10/create-sub-domains-for-custom-domains.html
ok here are the steps to do it properly :).
First of all login to your domain control panel and change your domain's nameservers to that of your hosting.
Now your domain will be pointing to your host. You want the domain root to point to your blogger blog. So we have to hand over the root domain to blogger. To do this we should create a CNAME record for www with value ghs.google.com
You wont be able to create this CNAME(unless you have paid more for some VPS or some hosting which gives you the permission to do it by yourself).So ask your webhost to create such a CNAME for you.When your host creates such a CNAME for you, your domain root(www) will be hosted at google's servers. So you can switch your blogspot domain to the customdomain http://www.yourdomain.com
So now you are done with your blogger blog part.
Next you need the forum on your subdomain.To do that login to your hosting control panel and add the subdomain forums.yourdomain.com and install some forum script there..
I hope this helps. I already have a similar kind os setup for my forums and blog. :)
Additional Stuff : you can enable google apps on the domain if you ask the host to create necessary CNAME A and MX records needed for google apps :)
i forgot to mention something and i can't edit the new post now.. so making a new post..
you cant have yourdomain.com/forums unless you use FTP publishing for blogger
but you can surely use the forum on the subdomain(forums.yourdomain.com) and blogger blog on the root domain(www.yourdomain.com) as i have mentioned in the previous post
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