How to Connect Your HOSTAFRICA Domain to Blogger

• This guide provides steps on how to connect your custom domain registered with HostAfrica to your
• Blogger website so visitors can access your blog using your own domain instead of the default blogspot.com address.

• You have an active Blogger website.
• Your domain is registered with HostAfrica.
• Your domain is using the HostAfrica DNS service
  (or your DNS is managed from the HostAfrica Client Panel).
• If your domain is using third-party nameservers (such as Cloudflare), make these DNS changes there instead.

Step 1: Get Your Blogger DNS Records

• Log in to your Blogger account.
• Select your blog.
• Navigate to Settings.
• Under Publishing, click Custom domain.
• Enter your domain in the following format: www.yourdomain.com
• Click Save.
• Blogger will display an error until your DNS records are added.
  You will be provided with:
  CNAME Record 1
  Host Points to www 
  Record ghs.google.com
  
  CNAME Record 2
  A unique verification CNAME generated specifically for your Blogger account.
  Example:
  Host may point to abc123
  Record may be gv-xxxxxxxx.dv.googlehosted.com
  
  
• Keep this page open as you'll need these values shortly.

Step 2: Access Domain DNS

• Log in to the HostAfrica Client Panel.
• From the left-hand navigation menu, expand DNS Management.
• Click Domains DNS.
• Follow the steps in this guide to add your DNS zone:
  Manage Your DNS Records From The HostAfrica Client Panel

• Once created, you can begin managing your DNS records.
  
  

• Click Add DNS Record.
• Configure the record as follows:
  Record Type CNAME
  Host www
  Points To ghs.google.com
  TTL Default
• Click Add Record.

• Click Add DNS Record again.
• Enter the unique values supplied by Blogger.
  Example:
  Record Type: CNAME
  Host: abc123
  Points To: gv-xxxxxxxx.dv.googlehosted.com
  TTL: Default
  Your values will differ from the example above
• Click Add Record.

• To allow visitors to access your blog using the root domain (yourdomain.com), add the following four A records
  Record Type: A 
  Host: @ 
  Value:216.239.32.21
  
  RecordType: A
  Host: @ 
  Value: 216.239.34.21
  
  RecordType: A 
  Host: @ 
  Value: 216.239.36.21
  
  RecordType: A 
  Host: @ 
  Value: 216.239.38.21
• If an A record already exists for @,
  edit or remove it before adding Google's records.

• DNS changes usually begin propagating within a few minutes but may take up to 24 hours to complete.
• During this time, Blogger may still report that the domain cannot be verified.

• Return to Blogger.
• Open Settings → Publishing.
• Click Save again.
• Once the DNS records have propagated, Blogger will successfully verify your domain.

• Redirect yourdomain.com to www.yourdomain.com
• This ensures both versions of your domain point to the same website.

• Under HTTPS, enable:
  HTTPS Availability
  HTTPS Redirect
• Blogger will automatically provision an SSL certificate. 
• This process may take several hours after DNS propagation is complete.

• Your DNS configuration may look similar to the below.
  Type:CNAME
  Host: www
  Destination: ghs.google.com
  
  Type: CNAME
  Host: (Unique Host)
  Destination: (Unique Blogger Destination)
  
  Record Type: A
  Host: @
  Value: 216.239.32.21
  
  Record Type: A
  Host: @
  Value: 216.239.34.21
  
  Record Type: A
  Host: @
  Value: 216.239.36.21
  
  Record Type: A
  Host: @
  Value: 216.239.38.21

• Confirm both CNAME records match the values provided by Blogger.
• Ensure there are no conflicting CNAME or A records.
• Allow sufficient time for DNS propagation.

• Verify that all four Google A records have been added for the root (@) domain.

• SSL certificates are issued automatically by Blogger and may take several hours to become active.