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**sprint66** · #1 (**permalink**) 23-10-2006, 15:06

I already have a simple copper account here hosting one of my website hosting, and I have several other website hostings hosted else ware. What I would really like to do is be able to move all these website hostings to one account, to ease management. I would also like to make new website hostings without having to open up a new account. What are my options?

Do I add all the domains as addon domains or is there any other way to go around.

**sprint66** · #2 (**permalink**) 23-10-2006, 18:40

I have opened a ticket as well...

**eUKhost.com** · #3 (**permalink**) 23-10-2006, 18:52

Hey sprint66,

We allow hosting unlimited domains / multiple website hostings under all hosting plans that we offer. You can host unlimited addon domains as well as parked domains in any of our web hosting plan.

All you need to do is choose a package from Cpanel Hosting packages depending on your space and bandwidth requirement. If you are looking for windows hosting or reseller hosting then you will need to check Windows Shared Hosting or Reseller Hosting Packages

Please let me know if you have any questions about our web hosting plans or the features included and I'll get back to you with all details as per your requirement. Our helpdesk is the best place to get quick response when you need some solution within short time.

**sprint66** · #4 (**permalink**) 24-10-2006, 08:03

So how would I create an entirely new website hosting in the same account then? Using Add-on domains? Doesn't that create it in a new directory under public_html? I watched the tuturial, but it doesn't really answer my question..

**sprint66** · #5 (**permalink**) 24-10-2006, 09:29

These forums just arn't monitored closely enough for my liking..

**Ryan** · #6 (**permalink**) 24-10-2006, 11:32

Hello Sprint66,

The forum is indeed closely monitored by our Co-Admins and Moderators on a regular basis. You should not expect instant replies as we give top priority to resolution of tickets on our helpdesk and we try to answer forum threads in 2 - 3 hours time.

The addon domain is a fully functional separate website hosting. It's an individual website hosting under your main account and a folder gets created under the public_html under your main user for the addon domain where you can upload all the contents of the addon domain. The only thing is you will not get separate control panel for the addon domain.

**sprint66** · #7 (**permalink**) 24-10-2006, 11:49

Ah, under as in 'outside of'? Probobly best just to try it I guess.

I am a little nervous of having all website hostings under just one account, though I can't think of any particular reason why.

Anyone else do this?

**sprint66** · #8 (**permalink**) 24-10-2006, 13:22

No, it creates a directory inside the public_html directory, ie one thats accessable from the main account domain. This can't be how its done surely?? Anyone else here with more than one website hosting? How do you do it?

**ThePants999** · #9 (**permalink**) 24-10-2006, 13:48

It's accessible from the main account domain, sure - but only if someone knows the name of the subdirectory! Can you specify an arbitrary directory name? If so, just call it 329yg7824g8w4yu or something, and then it's not really accessible from the main domain

**eUKhost.com** · #10 (**permalink**) 24-10-2006, 20:09

Addon domains hosting is similar to virtualization. You host multiple domains or host multiple website hostings on a single account which are basically setup as sub domains on the main domain but the domains you add as a addon domain gets parked on top of the subdomain.

Parked domain on main domain shows website hosting of the main domain. So parked domain on the subdomain would show website hosting of subdomain and the domain that is parked on subdomain is called addon domain.

It might sound lil confusing but read what I've said couple of times and you would understand cpanel in a better way

Apache configuration needs to know what directory to call when someone opens a particular website hosting in the browser and in case of addon domains, it will load the subdirectory of the subdomain. Your addon domain is added as an alias for that subdomain.

**brouwer** · #11 (**permalink**) 24-10-2006, 20:41

You can add the following redirect: www. maindomain.com/addondomain ==>
www. addondomain.com
This solves some problems when you use links, images, etc relative from the root (e.g.

).
I also suggest that you choose a general domain as your main domain when buying a packet, so that it isn't bad that addondomain.maindomain.com works also.

I think that with a reseller host plan, you can have different public_html folders for each domain, correct me if I'm wrong...

**eUKhost.com** · #12 (**permalink**) 24-10-2006, 21:01

You are right brouwer,

Reseller hosting plan is altogether different and in a resellers hosting plan you can setup different accounts with different main domains. Reseller account is good for those who wish to sell hosting to other customers but those who have their own multiple website hostings should choose normal shared hosting plan.

Those who are new to cPanel / WHM find it difficult initially to understand all features covered in WHM but it takes hardly few minutes if you go through the tutorials we have in our support section. Reseller hosting complicates things for those who setup different accounts for domains owned by them. You can imagine saving ftp information of 15 different website hostings and publishing changes on those 15 website hostings using 15 different login details would make you pull your hairs

**sprint66** · #13 (**permalink**) 24-10-2006, 21:06

Will need to re-read all this tomorrow, its late now and my brain is frazzled!!

**sprint66** · #14 (**permalink**) 25-10-2006, 09:10

So probably the thing to do is to create my webdesign company website hosting as the 'root' or 'default' website hosting if you like, then have all my other website hostings as add-on domains.

Once I have setup the additional website hostings I can then point a domain to it? For example if I have mysite.com as my main website hosting and anothersite.mysite.com as an add-on domain, I can then use the cpanel to make anotherdomain.com display the website hosting at anothersite.mysite.com?

Anyone got an example of this in action?

Chris

**brouwer** · #15 (**permalink**) 25-10-2006, 13:02

Yes, if you have 'www.mainsite.com' as main domain and 'www.anothersite.com' as add-on the following url's point to the same site:
-www.anothersite.com
-anothersite.mainsite.com
-www.mainsite.com/anothersite

For the first two, the root for url's relative to the root (links, images, stylesheets,...) is '/'. For the last it's '/anothersite'. This can cause problems when you use such url's when someone comes on an url like 'www.mainsite.com/anothersite/something', because it has a different root. To prevent this, all you have to do is to add a redirect that redirects 'www.mainsite.com/anothersite' to 'www.anothersite.com'.

**sprint66** · #16 (**permalink**) 25-10-2006, 13:15

Yes, I understand that, thanks...

As I had to move to eUkHost in a hurry, I didn't really have time to think to think about all this. My default website hosting is www. t3tuning.co.uk How easy would it be to move this to an add-on domain, so I can move in my web-design website hosting to the root? If my main domain is www. t3tuning.co.uk, and I set up an add-on domain of www. t3tuning.co.uk to move it to, what would happen?

**eUKhost.com** · #17 (**permalink**) 25-10-2006, 14:27

When you setup the addon domain from your control panel, you are requested to mention the directory name for the addon domain and ftp password alongwith it. You will need to upload contents of your addon website hosting to that particular directory only. That directory is inside your public_html

Subdomain created for that addon domain and addon domain itself would show contents of that particular directory and if you setup a redirect for the subdomain as suggested by "brouwer" then it would be helpful to setup path for images and other webpages in your addon website hosting.

**berbilfruit** · #18 (**permalink**) 06-11-2006, 12:00

A related question to this...I have just bought gigscene.net which I want to point to gigscene.co.uk (which I also own).

I parked it as I thought this was the right thing to do but I really want some kind of redirect, so people know .co.uk is the right address to use.

Should I be using some kind of forwarding/redirection? Thanks

**eUKhost.com** · #19 (**permalink**) 06-11-2006, 13:41

Options +FollowSymLinks
RewriteEngine on

RewriteCond %{HTTP_HOST} !^www. gigscene.co.uk [NC]
RewriteRule ^(.*)$ http://www.gigscene.co.uk/$1 [R=301,L]

Just add above code in .htaccess of your public_html. This will sort the problem.

**berbilfruit** · #20 (**permalink**) 07-11-2006, 06:29

Worked a charm, many thanks : )