Tuesday, December 18, 2012

After Using "Buy a domain", Blog Owners Are Seeing "Server Error" From Google Apps

Ever since Google ended its free Google Apps accounts, we've been seeing reports in Blogger Help Forum: Something Is Broken, about problems encountered when setting up a new Google Apps account, to administer a newly purchased custom domain.
Every time I try to login to Google Apps, using instructions in the email message, I get
Server Error: We could not process your request at this time, please try again later.

Apparently, the limited function free Google Apps accounts, which can be only used for domain maintenance, are not working with the Google Apps account setup wizard, which is used after using "Buy a domain". We are advised that, when this error is seen, you need to use the user name of "bloggeradmin" - and the password of the Blogger account, under which you used "Buy a domain" to purchase the domain - to login to Google Apps.

In some cases, the user name of "bloggeradmin" may not work with the password from the Blogger account in question. In this case, you must reset the Google Apps account, before you can login to Google Apps.

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6 comments:

Fahad Ashfaque said...

Thanks for your helpful post.

How did you have a separate subdomain for blogging ?

I registered a domain through Blogger. I don't really want to use the main mydomain.com to go to the blog. I want to use a subdomain like blog.mydomain.com and I want mydomain.com DNS settings to route to my own web server How do I do that ? Thanks

Bec Z said...

I have tried all your instructions and i still get the error message. Any new information about this issue or advise i could try. So frustrating! Thanks for your blog, it's very helpful

Rebecca Varley said...

This doesn't work for me! What can I do now?

Chasing Joy said...

This was helpful once I realized that the email I needed to send the reset to was bloggeradmin@ my domain. Thank you.

Wolfville Legion said...

the domain registration loop is also never ending for me.... none of the advice on forums / blogs is working .... is there any way to actually contact Google and ask for hlep?

Chuck Croll said...

Wolfville,

You're going to have to post your problem in Blogger Help Forum: Something Is Broken, and ask for help there.