AddOn domain redirects to subdomain

[radu.costinean]

Hi there,
I have my own VPS, I installed cPanel-WHM and I created my first cPanel account in WHM to manage my domains.
When I created it, I assigned to it the domain website.com. After few days, which is today, I added another domain something.com which has the folder under /home/account-name/public_html/something.com.
The problem is that adding something.com as an addon domain in cPanel, it created a subdomain for website.com too.
Example: something.website.com
So when I first opened in my broweser something.com, it redirected me to website.com/something.com

However I managed to do a redirect of the subdomain something.website.com to something.com. But I don't think that's the proper way it works

So how can i fix this issue, that whenever I add a new addon domain, it won't create a subdomain but a domain.

Thanks
Radu

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Btw I have created an wildcard for website.com to install Wordpress Multisite. I created this wildcard *.website.com as a subdomain

 

[vanessa]

When you create an addon domain, it always creates a subdomain. Don't create a redirect, just add the addon domain and access it normally.

If you don't like how this works, consider using WHM to add the second domain in its own cPanel account.

 

[radu.costinean]

That's strange because I have other domain hosted with a company (shared hosting) and they provide cPanel account. When I added a second addon domain, it created the subdomain, but it was pointing to "something.com" (where something.com is the second domain). Instead now when I went to http://something.com it was redirecting me to http://website.com/something.com/ which is strange
Anyway, thanks for clarifying it

 

[cPanelMichael]

It seems like you might have a script installed that redirects the domain name to the URL you see in the address bar, or you have custom Mod_Rewrite rules added within the account's .htaccess file in the public_html directory that are redirecting the domain name. Please check to see if either of those two scenarios apply here.

Thank you.

 

[radu.costinean]

I suppose you are right, because it might be the htaccess rules I added for Wordpress MU. I am not an htaccess expert and I can't confirm it, but that might be the cause because I don't have other script installed on that server.
Thanks You can mark this thread as solved.

Regards,
Radu