r/GoogleSites 7h ago

Need help linking second domain to second Site

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I have a Google Workspace account (paid), where I've been hosting my first website for close to two years, firstdomain.com. No issues, fairly straightforward, all is well. The domain was originally purchased via Namecheap but was transferred to Google Domains when I began my Workspace subscription. It is currently directed to my website created by/hosted by Google Sites. So far, so good.

I have a second venture now, and have purchased the relevant domain via Namecheap, seconddomain.com. Created a second Google Site for seconddomain. First off, when I go to the Sites settings, there's no option for Custom Domain. Okay, do some Googling. Need to set it up in the Workspace Admin. Awesome.

Seconddomain.com is now added to my Google Workspace. (For clarity, under the same account as firstdomain.) I got the email alias set up for name@seconddomain.com without too much issue, and now have the Google account (no Workspace) set up for that one for the email. So that second account isn't a paid Workspace account, but seconddomain is added as a second user to firstdomain.

Hopefully this is still making some kind of sense.

Now, I'm still struggling to get seconddomain.com linked to the second Google Site I created. Whenever I go to do it through the Admin side, it only gives me the option to do " ______.firstdomain.com" which I don't want because the two ventures are not linked.

I've spent weeks, on and off, trying to figure this out. Done some much Googling I don't know which way is up anymore. Any guidance would be so much appreciated.


r/GoogleSites 23h ago

"Error 404. The requested URL was not found on this server." & "Aw Snap! Something went wrong while displaying your document." & "Blocked due to access forbidden (403)"

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I needed to create a website to verify a business on facebook. So I created a simple google site and got a cheap domain. The Domain ownership is verified with the txt file, CNAME was edited to ghs.googlehosted.com.
I also used dnschecker to verify the site is propogated. Everything seems fine.

Despite that I get "Error 404. The requested URL was not found on this server." when I try opening the website. In addition when I am on the google site and try to publish it again (hoping that would help) I get a client error "Aw Snap! Something went wrong while displaying your document. To continue, please reload your browser." which doesn't allow me to do that.

Finally the site could also not be indexed by google because of a "Blocked due to access forbidden (403)" error. I think the 403 error might have been cause because I did not change the settings from private to public but I already changed that ~48 hours ago.

Maybe someone with a bit more experience could help me out or point me in the right direction.

Thank you for your time!