wack0

hi!

i was wondering if it is possible to buy a new domain name, and then have that domain name added under my current hosting plan so that it is like a separate website?

basically i have a site now:

visuallycreative.com

but i want a new site:

whatever.com

and i want to build pages under that.

so whatever.com/pages

can this be done without having to buy a whole new hosting package?

DewKnight

You can do this with an addon domain. You will need to purchase the domain, then go the the Addon Domain section in your cPanel, and add it. The files in a new folder in your public_html directory, but will appear like a whole new domain.

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wack0

awesome thanks!

wack0

okay, i did what you said. i bought the name, put it in my addon domains, and now when i navigate to my new domain i get a 404. what else do i need to do?

EDIT: nvm i just read some other thread on addon domains

wack0

okay i got the nameservers set and everything else, except now when i go to my new domain i get:

Forbidden
You don't have permission to access / on this server.

i did a chmod 777 on the add on domain folder and i still get the same error. help!

MarkRH

Assuming your new domain is whatever.com and its base directory is in /public_html/whatever/ do you have an index.html (or .shtml, .php, etc..) file in there?

If you have indexing turned off, and no index file is present for it to load, you'll get that. Oh, and chmod that directory back to 755. 777 is bad juju.. a security risk.

Try loading a page specifically, such as whatever.com/mypage.htm to see what happens.

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wack0

Mark,

I did as you said and chmod'd back to 755

I then was able to access index.html specifically but still not via the .com

how do I turn on indexing?

MarkRH

If you can load http://www.whatever.com/index.html but not http://www.whatever.com then something else is wrong. Can you post the working URL here and the one that fails? Also, look in your Error Log in Cpanel to find out what directory it is trying to load from that is giving the error. What path/file is it trying to load?

You may need to submit a ticket to support to make sure your add-on domain is loading out of the proper folder and that it looks for any index.* files to load.

Make sure you did not set up some kind of redirection for your add-on domain. That is not necessary.

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wack0

here is the working url: http://www.wtfimbored.com/index.html

and www.wtfimbored.com does not work.

this is what my error log says:
Directory index forbidden by rule: /home/visuall/public_html/wtfimbored/

i will submit a ticket. thanks!