Sub Domain Questions

[madyogi]

So, a friend of mine registered a domain at GoDaddy.com. As a favor, I'm going to design his site and temporarily host it at my bluehost domain, boxmediasolutions.com. I want it to be accessible when someone types in his domain name. I assume I can set this up as a sub domain with my bluehost domain, but I'm not sure what steps I need to take to make this happen.

Can anyone help?

Thanks!

[areidmtm]

Change his domains name server to ns1.bluehost.com and ns2.bluehost.com

Then add the domain to your account iusing "Add-On Domains" option in cPanel.

[podners]

I'm like the writer of this question but the add-on domains are ones I own as well.

I looked at the add-on domains panel but left there scratching my head... then I went thru the 'getting started' tutorial but it didn't cover add-ons (I did set up the webdisk which is something I wish we had when I started with Bluehost a couple years ago!)

I know I should have searched the forum before I posted this message, but I'm looking for an explanation or at least an example of what to put in the blanks and what they mean.

Thanks.

Kelly
www.podners.com

[strmtrupr2]

Hi,

How do you setup an alternate location for subdomains?

Currently, cPanel offers a text box to put in a different location. However, it always defaults to within the www root:
/home/artistl1/public_html/public_<subdomain>

It may help secure things if the subdomains were not within the root for www.

Does anyone else have an opinion about where would be a good place to store subdomains?

For example, my vision would look like this:
www.<domain>.com -> /home/<userID>/public_html/
wiki.<domain>.com -> /home/<userID>/public_wiki/

Not like this:
www.<domain>.com -> /home/<userID>/public_html/
wiki.<domain>.com -> /home/<userID>/public_html/public_wiki/

Also, there is a link in the user's home directory called www, which points to the www subdomain location. Why is this not needed for additional subdomains?

-thanks

Scott

[areidmtm]

Hi,

How do you setup an alternate location for subdomains?


They way the server is set up, you cant. Directory of sub domains cannot be changed.