[Chaos]

Hey everyone! I saw a few posts suggesting that it is possible to host multiple sites. But, after double checking the rules, it states you may not make 2 hosting accounts. So, I asked my friend and he said Subdomains. But, I read their description in my Cpanel and it is for parts of your website.

Example: Info.Runeaid.Novahost.org


So, I was just wondering how exactly you could do it. Thanks for the help in advance.

[Darkneo]

If you are talking about on Novahost, then you can either do a subdomain like you want there or you can buy a domain name for each additional site and use add-on domains. I'll walk you through the process for both to possibly help out other people.

Sub-domains: It actually really simple. In cPanel, you go down to to the subdomain link in the domain section. At the top of the page, it asks for the subdomain name you want to make, fill it in. Below that, you have the domain root, if you haven't uploaded anything you want yet then you can make it anything, but if you have a folder called phpBB, then you wanna fill public_html/phpBB(the folder has to be in your public_html folder). For example, if you want to create a subdomain forums.yourdomain.com, and the folder is called phpBB you put forums as the subdomain and phpBB as the document root. Now hit create I believe it could also go several folders deep but you have to show the complete path to the folder, ex. public_html/forums/phpBB

Add-on Domain: For this you have to go to the add-on domain page under the Domains sections. You have to already own the domain and point it the the server's nameservers. For novahost, they are ns1.novahost.org and ns2.novahost.org. Then you type in the domain in the top box, along with a ftp name which will also be the subdomain name. Yes, add-on domains also have a subdomain name relation to the main site so they be be accessed through www.youraddondomain.com or subdomain.yoursite.com. Now in the next box, you also need to fill in the document root again. If you use the ftp login you just created to sign in, that is where you will be allowed to edit with the new ftp username. Now type in your passwords and make sure they match, now just hit Add Domain and you'll be all set

[Upendran]

Add-on domains

Edit: Pooh! I am late by few seconds

[Chaos]

I'm trying it out right now. Thanks.

[Darkneo]

Upendran, he wanted to know exactly how to do it

Chaos, I hope it works for you

[Chaos]

Thanks, also, where do I enter ns1.novahost.org and ns2.novahost.org? Exactly what section in the Add-on domain creation?

[Darkneo]

No, the ns1.novahost.org and ns2.novahost.org is if you own a domain, you type that into the nameservers area of your domain management with your registrar.

[Chaos]

Oh, okay thanks. I created a subdomain and am working on it now. I'd prefer if it didn't have Runeaid in it, but I'll live. Thanks for the help.

[Darkneo]

If you do decide you want a domain, you can try co.cc, i'm not sure if they can be directly added into cPanel though, i think at one time Nathan needed to add those ones, i'm not sure though, it was either those, uni.cc or both. If you decide to use one of those, try it, and if it doesn't work then ask him.

[Chaos]

Thank you.

[Darkneo]

No problem, if you have anymore questions, let me know

[Chaos]

Thanks again!

[Chaos]

My website is now up! Here is the link.

Site Advertisement

There's my website! It's pure forum, please tell me what you think.

This post has been edited by Chaos: 12 March 2010 - 01:57 PM

[Darkneo]

Remember if its less than 24 hours since the last post and there were no replies in between, edit your last post. Double posting is bad

[Chaos]

I'm having some trouble making my forum 'home.html'. It keeps making this stripped version of my forum appear, and I can't figure out how to make it the home page. I have to put it in this 'Forums' folder inside of my 'Siteadvertisement' subdomain folder. Does this seem weird to you?

[pecky]

I get a 404

When cPanel created the sub-domain it created a folder. The folder that it generated acts like its own public_html basically folder/file.html would act as /file.html

And to make it the homepage you need to call it index.html or index.php

[Chaos]

Thank you! That cleared up some of my problems. But, I think I completely ruined my forum. :s



Edit: The forum is still stripped down.

This post has been edited by Chaos: 12 March 2010 - 03:57 PM

[Zarel]

Darkneo, on 12 March 2010 - 08:58 AM, said:

If you do decide you want a domain, you can try co.cc, i'm not sure if they can be directly added into cPanel though

Older versions of CPanel had a bug where you could not add third-level domains as an addon domain, causing the problem with co.cc. The version of CPanel we use fixes that bug, so it is no longer an issue at NovaHost.

[Darkneo]

I thought we had but I wanted to make sure

[Chaos]

Thanks for all the information. Later on I'm going to give a 2nd shot at my site and hopefully everything will work.