Addons and Subdomains
 

Hi all.

I was wondering if anyone can help me?

A friend of mine has registered some extra domains and he was told by his hosting company that he could add them to his current hosting account as Domain Addons through his Cpanel, he could then upload his files and the site would be visible as a standard domain.

I helped him a little as I have had my own site for several years now and used to build websites for some of the small business in my area, for free I might add.

We did as instructed by his host, but, we can only visit the sites as SubDomains, which is not what he wants. The hosting company has not been very helpful at all, but that is another thing.

I have searched the web and it appears this is a pretty common problem when adding domains as Addons but there doesn't appear to be any solution.

Thanks in advanced if anyone can shed any light on the subject, such as is there a setting in a htaccess file that would solve the problem.

Re: Addons and Subdomains
 

A sub domain generally points to a specific area of the site - like www.bbc.co.uk would be the main domain and say news.bbc.co.uk is the sub domain.

If you got multiple domains on the account then you should be able to control each one through the cpanel and do what you like with them.

Re: Addons and Subdomains
 

You are right.

You create the Addon Domain from within Cpanel, which we have done but isn't as easy as that.

Once you have added the Addon you should be able to access it by just typing the address addon.com into the browser address bar, but that is not happening, you have to address it as a subdomain.

I am currently talking to a guy employed by Cpanel on their forum, he told me to change the path to the Addon so that it was below the public_html folder, but that doesn't work. In the actual Cpanel documentation it tells you to place the Addon inside the public_html folder, so where do you go from there.