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24th of January, 2008
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For this example, I'm going to use "accountdomain.com" to represent
your primary account domain name and "newdomain.com" as the new domain
you are wanting to park or addon.
Parked Domains - Parking a domain just points the new domain
name to your primary account domain. So, if you were to park
"newdomain.com", it would point to the same directory that
"accountdomain.com" is pointing to.
Addon Domain - This is usually option most are after. Adding a
domain on makes it appear as if the new domain is hosted on it's own
account, even though the files are still located under your primary
domain. If you were to addon "newdomain.com", a user browsing to your
site will see "newdomain.com" in the URL, but it will be redirecting it
to a specific folder under your primary domain.
For example:
www.accountdomain.com/new would be the folder I setup for www.newdomain.com. Whenever a user browses to www.newdomain.com, they will only be able to see the files within the www/new/ folder on your account.
How to setup an addon domain:
- If you registered your domain
with someone besides midphase, make sure that the name servers are
pointing to dns1.midphase.com and dns2.midphase.com and wait a full 48
hours before proceeding with the rest of this.
- Login to your midPhase control panel. (Check your welcome e-mail for login credentials). www.accountdomain.com/cpanel
- Click on the "Addon Domains" menu option under "Domains and Stats"
Complete the form as follows:
New Domain Name: newdomain.com
Username/directory/subdomain name: new
Password: apassword Whatever you put in the
"Username/directory/subdomain" name will be the folder that is created
under your primary account. It will also be the default username for
mail and FTP.
- If the propagation from Step #1 is complete, typing in www.newdomain.com should then work.
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