Redirects in add on domains not working?

[brianjh]

Hi,

I'm using BlueHost as my hosting company and I have a website hosted.

My site works fine, I use a redirect from www.mysite.com >> www.mysite.com/forum
Everything works great

Now when I add a add on domain such as www.mynewsite.com I cant make redirects work

I want to redirect www.mynewsite.com >> www.mynewsite.com/dir

So what I did was in cpanel I went to add on domains then at the Domain Redirection option I chose to setup redirection.

I said redirect www.mynewsite.com to www.mynewsite.com/dir

However when I try to access my site I get the following

www.mynewsite.com/dir/dir/dir/dir/dir/dir/dir/dir/ and so on

So I tried it this way

www.mynewsite.com to www.mynewsite.com/dir/ with a forward slash and the same thing happens.

BlueHost is telling me that the only way you can do a redirect with an add on domain is by editing the .htaccess files.

BlueHost is saying it is a problem with cPanel

Are they giving me a bunch of hoopla. Should my redirects work through cPanel?

Thanks