Help moving blog to another site

Edit: Problem is solved! Well, basically, I still can't use the template I wanted on the ftp service, but that's another issue.

Ok all you tech experts and bloggers out there, does anyone know of any way you can still ftp your blogspot blog to an eternal hosting service?

It seems they now have it so you can use a custom domain, but I can't see how you can use the ftp function anymore. When I search for "help" on blogger, they still have the directions of how to ftp your site, but when you go to the "publishing" section, I only see how where you can use the custom domain.

The thing is, before I realized they had made the change, I already bought a custom domain and paid to upgrade my husband's hosting account (where his Web site and ftp blogger blog are) so that I can add my domain to his hosting account. I like the idea of having my blog on an external server because A)I already paid for it, and B)that lets me add additional pages, say for instance I wanted a standing photo page or whatever, I could put it at www.EXAMPLE.com/more.html. I've set things up according to the blogger instructions I could find for a custom domain, and changed the cname on my custom domain to point it to blogspot, but then when I went back and made a test file that could be accessed at www.EXAMPLE.com/more.html, it says page not found  because of course the more.html was in my folder on the external server and that can't be read in the current configuration.

The only other thing I know to do is to make a subdomain on my server of blog.mysite.com and point *that* to the the blogspot blog, and let mysite.com be the main page where I can put additional pages. The problem is, I don't want blog.mysite.com as the blog address, that's no better than having mysite.blogger.com.  I wanted mysite.com, which is what you could do last year when I set one up for my husband.

Any ideas how I can ftp the blogger site? Have they killed that option altogether, or just made it harder to find?

The custom domain is really redirecting traffic with a CNAME (which you can do with a subdomain).  Check here.

The custom domain is really redirecting traffic with a CNAME (which you can do with a subdomain).  Check here.

Thanks, that's what I currently have set up, but redirected to the main domain. As I understand it, to redirect to a subdomain instead, I would have to add something to the name that I want it directed to. I'm not sure how to explain this clearly, but I want to tell people to go to www.EXAMPLE.com, rather than telling them to go to www.blog.EXAMPLE.com. So I'd rather not do a subdomain as it defeats the purpose for me (I mean, just using .blogspot on the name is no more cumbersome than adding .blog to the name). Had I known the ftp option seems to be gone, I would've saved my money setting this other stuff up.

So the question is, is the ftp option really dead with blogger? I'm taking that it is as it seems now the only response I've gotten here (and one response on another board) just talked about doing a subdomain, which isn't what I'm shooting for. If need be, I'll just cancel the upgraded hosting on my hubby's account (which let me add my domain) and keep the domain name only. Really rather sucks, as I liked the setup I created last year for my husband and wanted that for myself without having to change to Wordpress.

It looks like it is still an option here.  I don't have much experience with Blogger/Blog*Spot because I've almost always used WordPress (and b2/cafelog before that).

Ugh, no wonder nothing worked right! I was thrown off by the old instructions as they skip a step, because they still say just go to settings and publishing, which is what I did last year. And when you do that you now get something about using a custom domain first off. It also tells you to change a couple of settings, which I thought I already had changed. Turns out that I *wasn't* using a classic template, doh! Of course! Now there is the added step of the custom domain option, but once you go past that and just change to a classic template, *then* go back to settings and publishing again, it will let you ftp. And of course I had forgotten that with a classic template I don't get some of the features that I want, so I've got some replaning to do.

For anyone else with similar issues, a clip on youtube cleared up the step I was overlooking: