Tuesday, April 11, 2006

 

Addon domains and email addresses.

What is addon domains?
For those who have a webhosting + a domain name, say hostingone.com, and just bought a second domain name say, domaintwo.com and didn't bought a web hosting together with it, you can just point domaintwo.com to a folder in hostingone.com/domaintwo. This is not a redirection. You can't do alot of things with redirection. Adding a addon domain will make the folder in hostingone.com act just like another hosting.

Cut the crap. So, how to setup addon domain?
Go to Cpanel. Add addon domain. Then go to the control panel where you bought your domain name( domaintwo.com ). Change the Nameserver for this domain to point to the same nameserver as hostingone.com. Once the DNS has propagated across the web (might take 24-48 hours) then you can start using your new domain!

Setting up email forwarders.
You also can have all your email@domaintwo.com to point to your hostingone.com mailbox. When you created the addon domain for domaintwo.com, the server will create a subdomain in hostingone.com using the foldername ( if your folder name is domaintwo then your subdomain will be domaintwo.hostingone.com). Because of this you are able to forward any email from domaintwo.com to your email@domaintwo.hostingone.com.

Just go to the 'mail' option in your cPanel and add forwarders. write down the email address that you want and choose @domaintwo.com from the drop down list , and fill in the second box with whateveremailyouwant@domaintwo.hostingone.com . Just make sure the 'whateveremailyouwant' is a valid email address.

Good luck understanding this very confusing tutorial!

Tags: Addon Domain | Domain Name | Email Forwarding

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