Manage a sub-folder as a cPanel Domain

I have an IIS server hosting websites where each user has sub-folder, e.g. host.domain.edu/user1, host.domain.edu/user2. I am moving a lot of my hosting to cPanel and was wondering if there is a way to recreate this, allowing each user to have their own cPanel account, yet still be able to have web traffic go to the sub-folder.

My first thought is that perhaps I can create a cPanel account for host.domain.edu that I would manage and then create individual cPanel accounts for sub-domains like user1.host.domain.edu but have them as a directory under host.domain.edu so that web traffic would work to both locations.

Is something like this possible/supported?

 

Thanks for the quick reply. I tried what you suggested and I must be doing something wrong. I created a domain called faculty.domain.edu. I then created some accounts

faculty_name_1.faculty.domain.edu
faculty_name_2.faculty.domain.edu

My goal for those sites to be accessible at

faculty.domain.edu/faculty_name_1
faculty.domain.edu/faculty_name_2

When WHM creates the individual faculty accounts it doesn't put their root under faculty.domain.edu's public_html, it creates them at the root of /home on the WHM server. I even tried making faculty.domain.edu a reseller and created the accounts under that reseller but it behaves the same way.

Perhaps I'm doing something cPanel was not designed to do or I have to manually edit the Apache configs?

Thanks again for any help!