AddOn domain redirects to subdomain

radu.costinean

• May 19, 2014 17:45

Hi there, I have my own VPS, I installed cPanel-WHM and I created my first cPanel account in WHM to manage my domains. When I created it, I assigned to it the domain website.com. After few days, which is today, I added another domain something.com which has the folder under /home/account-name/public_html/something.com. The problem is that adding something.com as an addon domain in cPanel, it created a subdomain for website.com too. Example: something.website.com So when I first opened in my broweser something.com, it redirected me to website.com/something.com However I managed to do a redirect of the subdomain something.website.com to something.com. But I don't think that's the proper way it works :) So how can i fix this issue, that whenever I add a new addon domain, it won't create a subdomain but a domain. Thanks :) Radu [COLOR="silver">- - - Updated - - - Btw I have created an wildcard for website.com to install Wordpress Multisite. I created this wildcard *.website.com as a subdomain

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  vanessa

  • May 20, 2014 01:46

  When you create an addon domain, it always creates a subdomain. Don't create a redirect, just add the addon domain and access it normally. If you don't like how this works, consider using WHM to add the second domain in its own cPanel account.

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  radu.costinean

  • May 20, 2014 10:15

  That's strange because I have other domain hosted with a company (shared hosting) and they provide cPanel account. When I added a second addon domain, it created the subdomain, but it was pointing to "something.com" (where something.com is the second domain). Instead now when I went to http://something.com it was redirecting me to http://website.com/something.com/ which is strange :) Anyway, thanks for clarifying it :)

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  cPanelMichael

  • May 20, 2014 14:46

  It seems like you might have a script installed that redirects the domain name to the URL you see in the address bar, or you have custom Mod_Rewrite rules added within the account's .htaccess file in the public_html directory that are redirecting the domain name. Please check to see if either of those two scenarios apply here. Thank you.

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  radu.costinean

  • May 22, 2014 10:13

  I suppose you are right, because it might be the htaccess rules I added for Wordpress MU. I am not an htaccess expert and I can't confirm it, but that might be the cause because I don't have other script installed on that server. Thanks :) You can mark this thread as solved. Regards, Radu

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