How to Setup Custom Domain on Blogger with Godaddy Setting up a custom domain on blogger

Blogger provides an option to set up a custom domain to point to your blog. However, There is no common way that this can be done. It depends on where you bought your domain domain.
Many people buy domain names on godaddy, for different reason. We will go through a step by step tutorial on how this process is done.

I have read some tutorials on setting up a custom domain on blogger with +GoDaddy . I noticed that the screen shots are not typical of the current godaddy.com design. This screen shots here are typical of what godaddy.com looks like ,September 2015.

In order to apply this tutorial to you blog, you must have the following
1. a blog hosted on blogger
2. a domain name registered on godaddy.com
          When we talk of setting up a custom domain on blogger, we mean using you own domain name to point to your blog not the way given to you by blogger.

There are two ways this can be done:
 I. on  subdomain for example(sms.ransbiz.com)
You might decide to use a subdomain if you want use your domain name on another website.
For example an oil company that  has a website might want to use blogger to write articles about their service.
if the domain name for the company website is say  ransbiz.com,
the company can choose a subdomain name   blog.ransbiz.com to point to their blog on blogger.

 II. On a top level domain(e.g ransbiz.com)
In this tutorial, i will show you how to set up a top level domain to point to your blogger blog.


 Set up your top Level domain to point to your blog on blogger.
==stetp1
Go to you blogger dashboard==>settings==>basic and click on  set up a third-party url for your blog

 
 



 ==STEP2
Enter your domain name (make sure you use www.) and click on save, the following will display on your screen.

You will need the information indicated with the two red lines

==STEP3
Go to your godaddy account and fine your way to my domais tabs ===>Click manage.
If you can  not do it, then follow the screen shot below(Note that there are several ways to do this )

==STEP4

 Click on the domain name you want to use ==> Click on DNS Zone File

Scroll down to where you see CNAME(Alias)

 under host you will see www  already wriiten.
click on the pencil icon to edit. Under point to, type
ghs.google.com(you can remove whatever is written there)
If you cannot find www already typed under Host, Follow the instructions in the next steps. Make sure you have something like this.
                              HOST                                      Point to
                              www                                       ghs.google.com

 ==STEP5
We have used the first CNAME indiacted on step 2
To enter the second CNAME(See second RED line on step 2)

Click on Add Record at the top==>select CNAME as on the screen shot above   and input the following

In the field for host
Copy and paste  info1 (step2)
Also copy and paste info2.googlehosted.com into the point to field.
Click on Finnish when you are done.
make sure you click on save on the red tab.

At this point we have directed our custom domain to a blogger blog. But we will receive errors when someone type your domain name without the www.
STEP6
To enable this, go to add record==>selecet  A (Host) and enter the following IPs.
Host            Point to

@	216.239.32.21
@	216.239.34.21
@	216.239.36.21
@	216.239.38.21

 

 
After entering the first click on add another untill all the 4 IPs are entered.
Then clik on finnish and again click on save changes displayed in Red.
      At this point, return to your blogger and Click on save.
Your will see the domain name displayed.

Click on edit beside the domain name and  Select the box displaying something like this.

Redirect ransbiz.com to sms.ransbiz.com. 

                         Your can now enjoy your custom domain on blogger.
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Agriculture Green House setting a better future for Africans

Green house Farming

For many people especially those in the Western world, Africa is synonymous with diseases, wars, conflicts and famine. We are a continent programmed to be at war with itself. Our ignorance is a fuel to our misfortunes. Our greed is a catalyst to our disintegration. The original BUSINESS PLAN that was written on Africa has been very effective and continuous to be. This is why Africa and Africans continue to live in the bubble.
To be FREE, we must start asking relevant questions and implementing sustainable solutions. So, therefore:
- Ask why Africa alone has more charitable organizations than any other continent in the world, yet we are worst than we were before independence;
- Ask why over a trillion dollars has come to Africa in AID yet Africa is still sick and poor – ?#?DambisaMoyo is criticized over her book, “Dead Aid”;
- Ask why the first University was in Africa yet the African education curriculum is almost obsolete – why does brain drain continue to exist;
- Ask why General education graduates make up over 60% of the unemployed population in Africa yet General education is still preferred over Technical /Vocation Training schools in Africa;
- Ask why the old and original books written in Africa and by Africans have been paraphrased and then burnt;
- Ask why we continue to give away our natural resources and prefer to buy/ import the finished products;
- Ask why the African immigrant population is the most educated in the West yet Africa still remains largely underdeveloped;
- Ask why most African countries do not own their currencies and have no reserve banks despite the wealth that resides in it;
- Ask why the West introduced Christianity yet all its “Prophets” live and reside in Africa;
- Ask why the number of Christians in Africa is doubling while the West is facing a steep decline of same;
- Ask why there are more churches in Africa than there are vocational schools;
- Ask why the so-called GLOBAL Malaria eradication campaign in 1952 not include Africa? Then ask about the origin of diseases like HIV/AIDS, Ebola etc;
- Ask why they will spend over a trillion dollars to cure an illness rather than spend a thousand dollars to prevent the same illness;
- Ask why the xenophobia is frequent in Africa – why we do hate ourselves and envy our kind but quick to love others even blindly;
Ask why they did it to Mohamed Boudiaf(Algeria), Melchoir Ndadaye(Burundi), Um Nyobe (Cameroon), Francois Tombalbaye (Chad) , Ahmed Abdallah (Comoros), Marien Ngouabi(Congo), Gaddafi (Libya), Patrice Lumumba (Kinshasa), Robert Guei (Ivory Coast), Sadat (Egypt), Amilcar Cabral (Guinea), Ratsimandrava (Madagascar), Eduardo(Mozambique), Mainassara (Niger), Ahmadu Bello, Akintola, Fajuyi, Saro Wiwa, Murtala (Nigeria), Abdirashid (Somalia), Steve Biko(S. Africa), Karume(Zanzibar), Olympio(Togo), Luther King(USA), Tupac(USA), Notorious BIG (USA) and even JF Kennedy (USA)
- Ask why the unity of Africa is somewhat practically impossible nowadays?
?#?Africans were born FREE, our continent was DIVIDED UP, our countries were COLONIZED, our leaders were NEOCOLONIZED and now our minds are going through RECOLONIZATION – we must balance the equation to invite CHANGE...
- Ask why over 60% of Africans are farmers yet no Africans own the largest farms;
- Ask why over 60% of Africans are farmers but the same farmers are the poor, hungry, malnourished;
- Ask why these greenhouses have existed for over 500 years but Africa and Africans are only feeling them now.
Agriculture is the only thing we know and will do best – that’s why slavery existed in the first place. Agriculture is the only platform through which Africa can gain UNITY.
Oh my Africa!!! Ohhh my Africans!!! The problem is not the government, not our colonial masters, not the religion but our MINDSETS – the NECROTIC process at play. We must employ intuition over intelligence and then develop sustainable solutions to our crisis so as to balance this equation.
My plans are simple and practical:
• In 2013 I introduced and tested the affordable greenhouses in Cameroon;
• In 2014 I experimented with and grew a wide variety of produce and then established a sustainable B-model;
• In 2015 I have introduced the locally made drip irrigation system and established a one-stop shop platform; the GreenHouse Academy and GreenHouse Cooperative;
• By 2017, well create agriculture communities in target areas and engage in the production of a variety of crops for target markets.
• By 2018 the GreenHouse curriculum becomes embedded in the education system of Cameroon; the GreenHouse Cooperative becomes the new Marketing Board; GreenHouse Asset Management becomes the new investment platform for Cameroonians at home and abroad; Greenhouse products make it on every shelf; the GHV brand and model becomes emulated in other countries;
• By 2020 we must have deployed over 3000greenhouses; collaborated with over 200 vocational & technical schools; trained and graduated over 6000 students; engaged over 1000 Cameroonians on my investment platform; established a transformation unit to transform, bottle and package any excesses;
• By 2025 these affordable greenhouse are all over West Africa; unemployment is reduced by 17% in Cameroon; sustainable agriculture is achieved and Cameroon becomes a major producer, consumer and exporter of a variety of produce from these greenhouses.
• By 2050, the world’s population reaches 9 billion and Africa should be self-sustainable and will feed the rest of the world. Africa will begin to see and feel UNITY.
The colonial masters and missionaries started with a business plan. I have done same. And, as long as I am alive, I KNOW THERE IS HOPE FOR MY FAMILY, MY VILLAGE, MY COUNTRY, MY CONTINENT AND THE WORLD AT LARGE.
If this is my purpose in this life then you have a purpose too.
By Roland Fomundam

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