Is there a long delay if applying a redirect?

Ok, today I put an Addon domain to my account. It was successful. Naturally, this addon domain shows up as really a sub domain. I made a folder under my original domain name to put the files for the addon domain. I then redirected the addon domain name to that folder and index.html file. I used a trailing / as instructed. Now, when entering the domain name, it only shows my directory with Parent Directory and cgi-bin directory. It is not going to the index.html page I have pointed to. I've tried everything but it still doesn't go there. I'm totally new at using cpanel for this. Is there supposed to be a long delay before this redirect will happen?

 

No, I actually don't see the index.html file, just the parent directory and cgi-bin dir. If index.html was actually there, I guess it would display and not be listed. I must be still doing something wrong. I know I uploaded the index file twice into the new folder I made under my original domain.

 

To add another domain to my hosting account, is the addon feature the correct way of doing this? It's the only way I could figure. I sent a ticket 10 days ago to my host asking this question but as of today, they still haven't answered me. They must have thought it was a stupid question and chose not to answer me. I know my host account says I can have 20 domains and I have several more to add and just started learning the ropes of it today, or at least attempting to.

 

I appreciate the help, Mike. I think I did all the addon domain right, it must be the redirecting I'm doing wrong.

 

You're right. The redirect was where I was going wrong. I finally managed to get it all to work. My goal was to move my old site that was a subdomain under freeservers.com to my own domain. The only thing I don't like about what I see is that now if a user goes to my new addon site with just the domain name, it goes to it fine, but the address in the browser window shows as a subdirectory of my main domain on my hosting account. I wish it would just show the domain they typed in in the first place. I thought the original domain the addon domain was under remained anonymous.
Thanks a lot for the help, Mike. I really appreciate it.
Russ

 

There were no redirects and the htaccess files are empty/0 bytes. I added another addon domain and it's behaving correctly and appears as it's own domain. I've been into Addon Domains and Sub Domains and made sure redirects were not in place but my original addon is still showing up under my top domain.

 

After more than 24 hours, the addon domain started appearing correctly. So, either my original question about a delay was valid or once you've applied a redirect and even if you remove it, it's the REDIRECT that may take 24 or more hours to clear up.