SubDomains & Add-Ons

[vinc_dc43]

Is there anyway to make sure that other than manually editing the httpd.conf file to allow a subdomain to be reached using the following format URL:

www.sub.domain.com

or does one always have to add it manually to the httpd.conf? Can this be scripted into the account creation script?

Also, with add-on domains, is there wanyway they can actually be reached as a standalone domain? as in www.domain.com rather than being a subdomain of the main account...

Or am I misunderstanding how Add-Ons are supposed to work?

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[mmkassem]

Is there anyway to make sure that other than manually editing the httpd.conf file to allow a subdomain to be reached using the following format URL:

www.sub.domain.com

or does one always have to add it manually to the httpd.conf? Can this be scripted into the account creation script?

There is no way to make it auto add : www.sub.domain.com currently because sub-domain is sub.domain.com and not www.sub.domain.com. Many people like to stick the www to everything, I am not sure why. (www is a sub-domain by the way)

They only way to do this is to either:

edit the httpd.conf yourself and add www.sub.domain.com. A record in the DNS zone of the domain

OR

Create the sub-domain from the WHM.

Also, with add-on domains, is there wanyway they can actually be reached as a standalone domain? as in www.domain.com rather than being a subdomain of the main account...

Or am I misunderstanding how Add-Ons are supposed to work?

Do you mean to have it's own home directory ? ex. /home/addonuser

Add-on domains are domains which share the same cpanel & username.

In cPanel they point to a directory inside the main domain public_html. but they are reached from www.addon-domain.com/addon-domain.com

You want you need is:
Shared Accounts (created from the WHM [Reseller WHM or Root WHM]) each has it's own username. cpanel and home dir.

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[vinc_dc43]

Thanks Mahmoud -

I hear what you say about www.subdomains. but clients are clients, and when you have to move an account from one cluster to another its a pain well all these "unknowns" break!

I will have to check about the addon domains. I just had the impression they werent working the way they should be :

Thanks again, Vincent -

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[WeMasterz5]

the only thing I see diff in the conf file is this

ServerAlias www.my.sub.com my.sub.com

mm...was wondering why some worked and some didnt LOL

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[mmkassem]

Originally posted by WeMasterz5
the only thing I see diff in the conf file is this

ServerAlias www.my.sub.com my.sub.com

mm...was wondering why some worked and some didnt LOL

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These might be created from WHM?

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[WeMasterz5]

correct, the subs that do work with the www were made in WHM

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[vinc_dc43]

the simplest way for whm/cpanel to resolve this would be to create an automatic server alias of *.domain.com i think. Alas as yet it cannot.

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