Domains and Folders
I have been confronted today with a question I dont know specifically the answer to. one of my clients has a domain and web hosting from a site, lets name it... host.com;
Now he got an ample amount of space on the hosting account since hes using it only as an online contacts page for himself. Now he bought 3 domain names from another domain hosting site, lets name it... gopapa.com;
The question is he wants each of those domain from gopapa.com to point to a unique folder on his hosting account at host.com...
I told him he could use domain forwarding or the much worse method of framing...
I also tried to tell him to research about DNS and whatnots to no avail...
He wants it to function like a legitimate site. so how does one go about to doing this?
Thanks in advance
Busy posted this at 10:36 — 12th July 2006.
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I don't think you can use a domain name on a folder
gopapa.com => host.com
gomama.com => host.com/folder/
as the dns also works via IP address and the folder doesn't have one - I could be wrong, you could use a redirect page but isn't SE friendly
Changing to a reseller account would be what they wanted, but would be different sites per name
timjpriebe posted this at 15:01 — 12th July 2006.
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I know hosts like Pair.com have this sort of thing built in. He might double check with his host and see if he has anything like that already available.
Tim
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Megan posted this at 15:47 — 12th July 2006.
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Some hosts will let you host more than one domain in one hosting package - that's basically what he wants, right? Poke around in the control panel and see if there's a way to add a domain. Otherwise, ask the hosts or find another hosting plan that allows this.
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Greg K posted this at 17:41 — 12th July 2006.
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I also use pair, and have several domains on my account. One thing to note though, pair gives you a separate IP address for each domain you host.
when you sign up with them, your account gets: [url]http://server[/url].pair.com/username
This in the filesystem is mapped to: /set_path/users/username
What I do is create a new directory for each domain of my "root" web path, and when setting up the domain, point it to those. ie
/set_path/users/username/domain1
/set_path/users/username/domain2
/set_path/users/username/domain2
This makes it much easier to manage. Technically then, the site that is accessable from http://www.domain1.com/ can also be acessed via [url]http://server[/url].pair.com/username/domain1
-Greg
demonhale posted this at 03:01 — 13th July 2006.
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Thanks for all the info, I guess hell have to ask hist host for this... I told him to get a minimum hosting account for the new domain names also, less hassle on his part...
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