Addon Domain Problem

[udinnet]

Hi there,
I'm using cpanel. Few days ago I got a new domain and I added it as a add-on domain to my cpanel. The cpanel was configured to my main domain(ex:- www.maindomain.com) and not for the new domain(ex:- newdomain.com). So I saw a folder was created for the new domain in public_html/ folder.

Now my question is, yesterday I saw my new site was in google... But it shows the url as http://www.maindomain.com/newdomain.com ????

Actually what was this? Will it keep always like that? What is the possible solution to set the domain as

http://www.newdomain.com

Thanks.

[usman43]

While making a domain addon , entering domain name (lets say newdomain.com) in the filed 'New Domain Name:' at cPanel > Domains > Addon Domains , cPanel automatically fills the 'Document Root:' as public_html/newdomain.com , which means that newdomain.com's web content will load from /home/USER/public_html/newdomain.com folder.
Note that by default web content for main domain (say maindomain.com) loads from public_html and you can load any page or sub directory under it as

http://www.maindomain.com/file_name
or
http://www.maindomain.com/folder_name

here since 'newdomain.com' is a sub directory under public_html , URL: http://www.maindomain.com/newdomain.com will load web content in /home/USER/public_html/newdomain.com that is what you see at google.

To avoid this , make sure you manually fill in 'Document Root:' while creating addon domain and remove the '.com' part from the new domain name. A better choice would be to fill 'Document Root:' as 'newdomain' instead of 'public_html/newdomain.com' which will make the sub directory outside of public_html for new addon domain.

[cPanelTristan]

To avoid this , make sure you manually fill in 'Document Root:' while creating addon domain and remove the '.com' part from the new domain name. A better choice would be to fill 'Document Root:' as 'newdomain' instead of 'public_html/newdomain.com' which will make the sub directory outside of public_html for new addon domain.

This will only work if WHM > Tweak Settings > public_html subdomains only is set to Off by the host. If it is set to On, then subdomains (and addon domains) can only be created in public_html folder.