Add on domain

[lovelylovely]

whats is addon domain

is it if my host allow me to addon domains
i enter the info and when someone type www.xxx.com he will be pointed to that directory where i kept its files

like xxx.mydomain.com is that rigth and will it show the www.xxx.com or xxx.mydomain.com in address bar


if thats the case whats the difference in addon domain and subdomain

 

[IAmAllanShore]

You need to have the nameservers set to the same nameservers that your main domain is hosted with.
Is that:
Name Server:NS1.SERVERINOTE.COM
Name Server:NS2.SERVERINOTE.COM

What they are currently set as.

That error means the nameserver of your hosting account isn't registering as being the nameserver of the domain you are trying to add on.

Either that or cPanel is having problems

Try again now, or set the nameservers to the same as your hosting nameserver.

-Allan

 

[grindlay]

CPanel Fix

Thanks.
I managed to work around by going into WHM > Tweak Settings >
and checking the boxes:
[Allow Creation of Parked/Addon Domains that are not registered]
[Allow users to Park/Addon Domains on top of domains owned by other users. (probably a bad idea)]
Don't know why this was required, because the domains are registered and pointed correctly.
Anyway, that let me create the add on domain, and everything was fine.
I went back and unchecked the boxes, restarted BIND and it still worked.
I think you're right about CPanel - maybe a bug?

 

[jeter4982]

AddOn domains = rule.
Lots of confusion in this thread, and I am not the best writer, so here we go:

For an addon domain, your first step is to set the nameservers on the domain you want to add to your hosting account to the same as your "primary" domain (The one associated with the hosting account.)

For me, that is preesh.com .

Then, you go to the cPanel and choose "addon domain". If my addon domain is 411.cc (Which it is, so you can follow along) , then for addon domain I enter: "411.cc" . For the subdirectory/name, I will enter: "411" and for the password choose whatever you want.

This will do 3 things. First, a subdomain is added to preesh.com . So, you can see that http://411.preesh.com works. It also adds a directory on your main domain, see http://www.preesh.com/411/ . As well, if your domain's nameservers are now updated, 411.cc will resolve as a standalone website at http://www.411.cc (Which it does).

To update http://www.411.cc now, I login to FTP/whatever and get to my main directory which for me would be publichtml/preesh , once there, find the "/411" folder and that is where everything for my domain is.

I have 150 addon domains hosted with one service right now that each one resolves on its own without forwarding/framing/masking. This increases SE results, as well as giving a lot more of a "personal" touch to each domain.

So, it is NOT forwarding or parking, it is like having a brand new hosting account for each domain name, but you just don't get new resources, you share bandwidth and disk space with your original domain.

Does that make sense?

-Allan

Excellent explanation Allan! I never knew what Add On domains were. I always thought you had to buy a reseller account to do this, but now I am happily surprised. :D

Tom

 

[rawandy]

Addon domains is "serveralias" in apache right?.

Andy