cPanel addon domain problem

April 13th, 2004, 9:46 pm

my hosting company allows up to nine addon domains. I purchased another domain and I have not been able to get the cPanel to correctly configure the addon domain. specifically, I don't know what to type into the Username/directory/subdirectory field. the server is Apache running on a Windows box. is there a way I can do it manually without messing with the cPanel Addon Domain option? can anyone out there point me in the right direction? thanks. peace

April 14th, 2004, 12:29 pm

You can't really mess up the addon domain option.

But, Cpanel requires the add-on domains already have the whois record pointing to the appropriate DNS servers.

If the whois record has not propagated, and Cpanel doesn't see the correct nameservers in the whois record, it will not let you add it.

The username/directory field is the directory in which this website will be housed.

Do you want another domain pointing to your existing site? (this is known as parking with Cpanel), or do you wish to host an entirely new site on the new domain with your existing hostign account?

April 14th, 2004, 3:23 pm

the domain name has propogated and the domain name points to the correct name servers.

I'm trying to host an entirely new site. my current site is http://www.agoodwinproductions.com and the domain I want to add is http://www.viciousdev.com. when I type the directory that I want the domain to start at it creates the correct folder in public_html but it also creates a subdomain and adds .agoodwinproductions.com to the end of the domain name. I have no clue how to fix it and the hosting company is no help (they seem to know even less than me and I just started).

April 14th, 2004, 3:27 pm

Right, basically when you add a domain name in Cpanel, you have certain pieces of information...

olddomain.com
newdomain.com
newdirectory/username

http://www.olddomain.com is your current existing website.
http://www.newdomain.com is the new website you want to setup, which will live in newdirectory.

When you add http://www.newdomain.com to your Cpanel account, it will do seveal things....

1) Create newdirectory
2) Setup a pointer to newdirectory.olddomain.com (apache vhost & DNS info)
3) Setup a pointer to http://www.newdomain.com (apache vhost & DNs info)

Anything you upload into newdirectory, for example, index.html can be viewed by going to both http://www.newdomain.com and http://newdirectory.olddomain.com.

April 15th, 2004, 5:46 pm

thanks. I set it up and I got an error that said it could not bind the domain to the server due to an outdated protocol so I am going to try to set up domain name forwarding by pointing the nameservers to a forwarding server.

April 15th, 2004, 7:04 pm

Sounds like the system admin needs to update Cpanel & BIND - or maybe his configuration is such that only the Cpanel admin can restart apache from within the admin WHM (or as root from a shell prompt).

May 29th, 2004, 6:56 pm

See i tried that and it works. My problem is when you enter my new addon domain http://www.txdesigns.com it fowards it to txdesigns.texanclan.com like i want it to. But is there a way to keep http://www.txdesigns.com up there.

What i need is it to goto http://www.txdesigns.texanclan.com/index.html but still say http://www.txdesigns.com/index.html.

In conclusion i would like it to work like my primary domain but still point to a subdomain folder. Is that possible?

May 30th, 2004, 2:48 am

Axe wrote:

But, Cpanel requires the add-on domains already have the whois record pointing to the appropriate DNS servers.

This is actually a setting in cPanel that the host chooses to set.

May 30th, 2004, 10:22 am

Yes, a default setting that should not be altered

May 30th, 2004, 11:26 am

is it a good idea to have another domain name ie.domain-name2.com
to be domain-name1.com/domain-name2 ?

pros and cons...

May 30th, 2004, 12:14 pm

Well, it's best to have a specific vhost entry for each domain, not just a domain forwarder.

But I've got several domains hosted on one package, and the URLs work good. You just have to remember to end directories with a trailing slash...

http://www.domain2.com/something == http://www.domain1.com/domain2/something/

http://www.domain2.com/something/ should show correctly.

That's the only real thing to be careful with on Cpanel addon domains.

May 30th, 2004, 12:46 pm

Axe wrote:

Well, it's best to have a specific vhost entry for each domain, not just a domain forwarder.

But I've got several domains hosted on one package, and the URLs work good. You just have to remember to end directories with a trailing slash...

http://www.domain2.com/something == http://www.domain1.com/domain2/something/

http://www.domain2.com/something/ should show correctly.

That's the only real thing to be careful with on Cpanel addon domains.

See its still showing the subdomain or the /folder not the actually domain?

May 30th, 2004, 11:09 pm

guess not. Thank for you help anyways.

June 2nd, 2004, 6:12 am

Anyone?

June 2nd, 2004, 10:57 am

Maybe it's just the way your host has it setup. Have you tried contacting them?