Is it possible to host two domain names in one share hosting?

[skyhigh007]

Hi

Is it possible to host two domain names under one share hosting account? Ex: www.domain-name1.com and www.domain-name2.com

[Gabe]

Yes, this is possible using 'Addon Domains' from within cPanel. However, both domains will be managed within the same cPanel account.

If you need a separate cPanel account for each, you will need to move to a reseller package or simply have multiple shared accounts.

[skyhigh007]

would it affect all the files between two domains ?

[Gabe]

The most typical set up is to have the main domain name run off of /public_html and the addon domain run off of /public_html/domain2.com.

However, I don't recommend this because it gets very unorganized when the main domain has a lot of files. T

he alternative would be to set the following structure:

/public_html/domain1.com
/public_html/domain2.com

This will keep files for each domain independent of each other. However, to get this set up you would need to set up a ticket so that we can change the Document Root of your main domain name.

[skyhigh007]

If you change the Document Root of my main domain name, will there be any side effects to my current main domain website and later on?

[Gabe]

If your scripts use any absolute server paths they would need to be updated, but other than that, everything should continue to operate the same once moved over properly

[skyhigh007]

Can you give me an example of how the paths would be like?

[NpaMattAlan]

/home/yourusername/public_html/some-script.php

Forums, blogs, and CMS systems use this alot.

And if you changed it, it would become /home/yourusername/public_html/domain1.com/some-script.php