Subdomain and Document Root Help

sidcaan

• April 19, 2020 01:46

Hi, I"m having some problems and wondering if anyone can help me please. I have setup the following subdomain with the document root: clients.domain.tld > /public_html/clients I want the content to be only available via the URL "clients.domain.tld" but right now it is also accessible via the URLs "www.domain.tld/clients" and "domain.tld/clients". How can I disable the latter 2 URLs so that it is only possible through the subdomain only? Thank you.

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  cPanelLauren

  • April 21, 2020 18:42

  So those latter two URLs are present because the folder for the subdomain exists inside the root domain's document root. The only way to avoid this would be to move the data outside the document root - so outside of public_html and into /home/$user/

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  sidcaan

  • April 22, 2020 19:37

  Thank you @cPanelLauren, I did think of that but then thought that maybe it won't be accessible via the web. Will try it and if there's any issues I'll ask here.

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  sidcaan

  • April 22, 2020 20:20

  @cPanelLauren tried your suggestion, but unfortunately the document root cannot be outside of public_html. It just isn't physically possible. Any other suggestions?

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  cPanelLauren

  • April 22, 2020 20:38

  It is possible but it may be that your provider has restricted document roots to public_html which is a setting that can be changed in WHM's Tweak Settings interface. Otherwise, it's not possible to do as far as I am aware - besides redirecting domain.tld/folder to sub.domain.tld which is possible to do in the cPanel interface.

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