SubDomain Wordpress Fantastico Questions

[7heather7]

I have my parked domain that I use for business. I also want to use the hosting to create a personal blog-not affiliated with my regular domain. So I registered a new domain (add on) and labled it an unparked subdomain in my business domain files.

I ran fantastico to install a wordpress blog and it would only allow me the url of:

domain/subdmain/blog

I want my blog URL to be:

subdomain.com

I have not waited for the DNS to propogate- could this be part of the problem? What do I need to do in the set up with Fantastico to have my blog url be my subdomain?

Thanks in advance!

[MiguelEgas]

I learned that addon domains work differently than subdomains. If you place your new domain as a subdomain, then it allows you to publish and interact directly to it. This is because in a subdomain you actually own the specific domain. , Where is an add ons you can use a domain under your domain only. Example:

I own the domain: mydomain.com I can add domains as addon's for example microsoft. But they will always show up to DNS server as www.mydomain/microsoft.com or something like that. In other words the main domain is always listed. Browsers will need the www.mydomain/subdomain to find it.

If however I buy a domain called mynewdomain.com and use it as a subdomain to mydomain.com it actually creates a folder under mydomain.com and the address www.mynewdomain.com will go directly to that folder. Browsers will only need www.mynewdomain.com to find it.

Hope this helps.

[7heather7]

ok. I think I've got that. I was fiddling around in the control panel and it looks like I cannot edit it much until DNS propegates. I did register it as a newdomain and paid the $10. So once it propegates I need to set it up as a subdomain.

Any ideas on how to set it up in fantastico so it shows up as www.newdomain.com instead of www.newdomain/domain.com?

[wolfe]

I've got one main domain and 3 subs, so have done this several times (including most recently last night). It's a very nice straightforward process.

This assumes you've got www.main.com and www.sub.com (which can also be addressed as sub.main.com or main.com/sub).

Do check that your domain, sub, has shown up in subdomains (and/or addon, as appropriate) -- this is under the "Domain" menu area in cpanel.

Then, click on Fantastico, New Installation (of Wordpress). Fantastico's WP blog install will present you with a dropdown box, and you just select the domain you want, as sub.com. (If this doesn't occur, check settings in the domain section of cpanel). I suggest not selecting the other option of sub.main.com, just in case.

You can also optionally specify a directory (e.g. 'blog') if you wanted your blog to appear in www.sub.com/blog instead of www.sub.com.

Then, just create and you should be fine. Note that for ftp purposes, your files will be in something like:
main.com/public_html/sub/...

but to the person using your blog, they'll never see it as part of the main domain, unless they happen to get lucky and type sub.main.com.

Do be advised -- WP 2.10 (even new installs) seem to be creating problems for some people (including me). If you're able to wait a bit, you might want to wait for some of the bugs to be fixed, or just cross your fingers and plow ahead. Good luck!

-wolfe

[7heather7]

Ack! This is way harder than I thought it was.

I figured it out and ran fantastico to install wordpress on the newdomain- that worked.

I am used to blogger, so I am a little clueless as to how I find and install a template and valid CSS...???

Any ideas?