HELP!! - Linking a Domain to a site made in Google Sites

elh_2009 · 4 Mar 2019 at 09:43

Hi

I was hoping one of you lovely people could help me out.

Me and a mate have started our own Gaming page, we have all the social media ect and over the weekend purchased a domain name from Google.

We have started to build a site using Google Sites, we wanted something we could both access as i have very limited experience of HTML and my mates wouldn't have access to something like Dreamweaver.

Heres our problem, when trying to link the site to the domain it was asking for verification, we think we have managed to do this via a "CNAME"? it was also asking for "DNS" which i couldn't figure out how to do. Now when we try to link to the domain it is coming up with a error, "The URL is already in use with another Google Service" I have no idea how to find what this service is and how to remove the service.

Can anybody help as currently we have the domain redirecting to the address Google sites uses, which isnt ideal

Thanks in advance

elh_2009 · 4 Mar 2019 at 11:31

so ive managed to sort the url in use issue, i think it was because we had forwarding setup, however i am now getting the below error (ive taken out the website name as i didnt want to self promote on here)

This site can’t be reached
www.------.co.uk’s server IP address could not be found.

Search Google for

ERR_NAME_NOT_RESOLVED

touch · 4 Mar 2019 at 14:20

Name not resolved means you dont have the DNS setup correctly.

Try working through the steps in this link: https://support.google.com/sites/answer/9068867?hl=en

elh_2009 · 4 Mar 2019 at 14:28

touch said:
Name not resolved means you dont have the DNS setup correctly.

Try working through the steps in this link: https://support.google.com/sites/answer/9068867?hl=en

hi

i have done this and its still not working, i am very limited with my knowledge

touch · 4 Mar 2019 at 19:22

Could you post a screenshot of the DNS settings you have?

elh_2009 · 4 Mar 2019 at 21:05

Here you go, i posted everything i can see, i have no idea which one is needed

https://ibb.co/ZWwV7cP
https://ibb.co/pyHyGkv
https://ibb.co/k6whYRV

touch · 4 Mar 2019 at 21:17

I think the www cname record you have should point to ghs.googlehosted.com rather than your own domain name.

edit: also, when you're making changes to DNS, it can take a while for the change to take effect. You can see the "1h" under TTL column. That means the record will be cached for 1 hour so it could be anything up to 1 hour before the changes you make are seen

elh_2009 · 4 Mar 2019 at 21:38

touch said:
I think the www cname record you have should point to ghs.googlehosted.com rather than your own domain name.

edit: also, when you're making changes to DNS, it can take a while for the change to take effect. You can see the "1h" under TTL column. That means the record will be cached for 1 hour so it could be anything up to 1 hour before the changes you make are seen

Thank you, i will try that and see what happens.

elh_2009 · 4 Mar 2019 at 21:50

touch said:
I think the www cname record you have should point to ghs.googlehosted.com rather than your own domain name.

edit: also, when you're making changes to DNS, it can take a while for the change to take effect. You can see the "1h" under TTL column. That means the record will be cached for 1 hour so it could be anything up to 1 hour before the changes you make are seen

That worked, thanks mate, very very much apperciated.

rowenavaa · 11 Mar 2019 at 06:50

This thread thought me a lot. thanks