I am pretty new to this and I am getting more clients asking me to build them a website.
Usually what I do is have them create two accounts, one for domain hosting and another for website hosting.
But then I have been researching addon domains lately and have been considering that for ease of use since I can manage multiple sites under one cPanel.
My question is for website designers that have a growing clientele, what do you do in cases like this?
Should I go with addon domains for my clients?
Thanks
]]>I just bought a new domain and added it to my hosting as an addon domain. The setup is as follows.
primarydomain.com.au
addondomain.com.au
addon files are stored at;
primarydomain.com.au/addondomain
I extracted wordpress zip file to the addon subdirectory and went to the addondomain.com.au to install. I follow the installer to set up the SQL database. When it says that that is done and it is ready to run the installer, I then get directed back to the beginning of the SQL database setup.
I then find that the config.php was created on primarydomain.com.au, not addondomain.com.au.
How can I tell the installer itself to use the addon domain instead of the primary domain?
]]>I substituted every instance of mikejkelley.com/ncp/blog with nickelcitypixels.com/blog and finally figured out that I had to substitute any mention of path= /ncp/blog with /blog too. I then edited wp-config.php to reflect the “new” site and paths.
After two days of troubleshooting I got (almost) everything to work. The site shows up as do the blog posts and images. Login works fine. But the posts themselves do not. Clicking on a post elicits a 404. The (seemingly) correct URL appears in the address field, eg:
https://nickelcitypixels.com/blog/2016/01/02/testinglinks/
but the error message mentions the ncp directory still:
Not Found
The requested URL /ncp/blog/index.php was not found on this server.
Additionally, a 404 Not Found error was encountered while trying to use an ErrorDocument to handle the request.
Even new posts fail to work. Index.php exists, so the request must be wrong. It seems I’ve failed to completely edit out /ncp/ somewhere, but where?
]]>I am fairly new to this but concerned about getting things tied in knots.
I have installed WP multisite on my public_html. I have several domains listed which I want to run as individual websites, they are listed in both the sub-domains and addon domain sections in cpanel.
In the file manager I can see these domain folders but they only contain a single cgi-bin folder in each.
When I try to add these domains as new sites I only get error 505. In another topic I tried to resolve this. Sadly help wasn’t forthcoming so I did a few trials.
I installed WP into one of the addon domains and sure enough I now have a WP site for this domain. However, it doesn’t link to my network, it has to be logged into individually even after I attempt to add it as a new site on my multisite setup.
Now I can work on these sites individually and not use the multisite system but for ease of sharing plugins etc I would prefer to use the multisite as admin for all my sites.
What do you think? Have I missed something simple? Is my setup heading for a problem? I am I better installing WP into the subdomain or addon domain?
Any help gratefully received.
]]>I have installed multisite to my hostgator shared hosting and it works fine for the primary domain and any sub domains, ie example.com and somethingelse.example.com in that I can see those sites and can log into the dashboard. I have not tried anything beyond that as I have a problem with addon domains.
For addon domains I can see the site at addondomain.com but cannot sign in to the dashboard at addondomain.com/wp-login.php, when I type the user and password all I get is a redirect in the address bar and the login screen again.
Many have reported something similar when using Firefox, but this happens with IE FF and Chrome on both Windows and Linux machines so I think it is something that I have not done in the setup that is causing the problem.
My registrar is name.com all domain names have the dns pointing to the ip with an A record and a wildcard set for sub domains.
On the server the addon domains are pointed at the public_html folder that multisite is installed in.
Any ideas what I have missed, appreciate the help thanks.
Sam
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]]>I signed up for the deluxe package which allows you to set up 1 domain as your main domain, then you create addon domains under that domain. So I made folders for each of my domains and transferred files to each of them accordingly.
Everything seems to work fine, except for the site that I had wordpress installed on. I took all files exactly as they were before and put them in the addon domain folder for that particular site and I am getting the error seen here: www.thereleasedpress.com
I am thinking that maybe I need to edit some information in a config file or something along those lines? I found another topic here that I thought would be helpful but I don’t really follow what this person did, nor am I sure if that’s what I should be doing:
https://www.ads-software.com/support/topic/158528
This topic seems to focus more on an error that is ocurring because they have a blog on their main site AND and addon. My problem is just having issues with a blog in one of the addon domain folders.
I also cannot login to that wordpress account since the login page is doing the same thing…so that makes it impossible for me to look into the blog options. Does anyone know if there is another way to get into my login area with this error going on?
Can anyone help me out? If I’m not being clear about anything please let me know. I hope I didnt lose the blog!
Thanks in advance!
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