Introduction and Gratitude

This is my first blog post Yay 🎈

And firstly thank you to Hashnode for creating this awesome platform for developers and allowing us to express ourselves via blogging.

The Problem I Ran Into

If you registered a domain with Google Domains [Domains.Google] and also signed up for a hashnode blog. Now rather than pointing out your root domain [domain.com] to your hashnode blog [hashnode's subdomain ex: blog.hashnode.dev], if you want to point out your subdomain [subdomain.domain.com] to your hashnode's blog then this blog post is for you :)

[or if you are just interested to gain some valuable knowledge then also you can proceed to read and you'll find it interesting ].

I'm going to share a solution to a problem that I ran into...

I couldn't find the complete solution [from A to Z] in one place over the internet so I had to find it on my own and connect all the dots myself.

And I speculate that others might be also facing the same issue so here I'm sharing the step-by-step process to fix this issue which will save others time, effort and energy.

I registered a domian [Aaroncayc.me] through Google and after signing up for a hashnode account, I wanted to run my blog under my subdomain for ex: blogging.aaroncayc.me
So this is how I did it...

The Solution to a Problem

Here is the step-by-step solution which you need to follow to map your subdomain to your hashnode blog:

Step 1
Click your Avatar Icon on the top right of any page and select 'My blog' from the drop-down menu.

Then click on Blog Dashboard:

OR

If you haven't created any blog yet and just signed up for a hashnode account then:
Click your Avatar Icon on the top right of any page and select 'Manage your blogs' from the drop-down menu.

Then click on Blog Dashboard:

Step 2
Now you're in Blog Dashboard. Under the General Settings menu, you will find the 'Domain' at the bottom. Click on it:

Step 3
Then click on Custom Domain:

Step 3
And enter your subdomain without http:// or https://
for ex: blogging.aaroncayc.me and then hit the Update button
Note: Here 'blogging' is my subdomain and aaroncayc.me is my main domain.

Now you will see something like this, see the below screenshot [if you noticed DNS config, SSL, Status all are disabled because the subdomain isn't propagated yet, in other words, the subdomain isn't mapped yet]:

Step 5
Then go to Domains.Google: domains.google.com/registrar
and click on Manage

Step 6
Then click on DNS from the left-side menu

Step 7
Now you have to enter three pieces of information:
Host name
Type
Data

And this is what you have to fill in:

1. Enter your desired subdomain in 'Host name' field ex:
Host name: blogging
2. In Type field select: CNAME
3. In Data field enter: hashnode.network

Step 8
Now hit the Save button and you'll see something like this:

Step 9
Now go back to your hashnode dashboard to check the status of your domain mapping and you will find something, similar to the below screenshot [this time you'll notice DNS config, SSL, Status all are enabled showing green color because the subdomain is propagated successfully, in other words, the subdomain is mapped Yay 🎈 success 🏆]:

This shows all is working fine right now 😀. And we can now visit https://blogging.aaroncayc.me/

This is how I fixed the issue and I hope it will help you to get this done for your subdomain without wasting hours or days searching endless articles and going through a massive energy-draining process.

Thank you so much 🙏 for reading and being with me up until this point, I appreciate your time.

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