Different owners for subdomains?

[primerano]

Is it possible to run blog.example.com and IANA — Example domains under different users?

I find that over time I end up with several apps under several subdomains. In the past one of those apps was compromised and this resulted in all my apps being vulnerable.

Because of that I run all my apps as different users.

It also seems a little crazy to me that the subdomains are under the main public_html directory. This means I can get to blog.example.com from example.com/blog.

Is there a way to segragate things? I think i can change the path for a subdomain easily enough but changing the owner would be even better IMO.

 

[PlotHost]

For me the best option is to create different cPanel accounts for subdomains. One cPanel account for sub1.example.com , another cPanel account for sub2.example.com ...

 

[robertlee749]

In my sense its possible,when we have to choose different names then its possible to different owners for subdomains.

 

[cPanelMichael]

Hello

Yes, it's acceptable to create a new account for each specific subdomain. You will need to ensure that subdomain is not already added to an existing account before creating a separate account for it.

Thank you.

 

[cPanelTristan]

If you don't want to create a new account, but also don't want the subdomains within public_html to possibly cause a compromise to the whole account, you can place the subdomain into /home/username/subdomainname location by changing the documentroot field for the subdomain on creation in cPanel > Subdomains area.

This would ensure the subdomain is separated from public_html content for the main domain and any other subdomain folders.