Hosting multiuple add-on domains... with mod_rewrites

stuff10

• July 14, 2016 09:39

Hi, First post here, so please be gentle. I have a VPS with WHM and cPanel, with root access. One of my websites, example.com allows users to create their own websites, eg: example.com/site1 example.com/site2 example.com/site3 etc I would like the users to be able to use their own domain for this, so: site1.com shows example.com/site1 site1.com/page1 shows example.com/site1/page1 site1.com/page2 shows example.com/site1/page2 site2.com shows example.com/site2 site2.com/page1 shows example.com/site2/page1 site2.com/page2 shows example.com/site2/page2 etc I understand that I can do this by adding add-on domains, however... The sites are using htaccess mod_rewrite to generate the URLs. So /http_docs/site1/ doesn't exist as a folder, the actual path to the website files would be example.com/files/index.php?site=1 How can I set the server up so that: site1.com shows example.com/site1 site2.com shows example.com/site2 Etc I'm a novice when it comes to WHM and cPanel, so any help would be greatly appreciated. Many thanks, Rob

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  cPanelMichael

  • July 14, 2016 18:22

  Hello, You can use the "Manage Redirection" option in "cPanel >> Addon Domains" after creating the new addon domain. This will let you redirect the addon domain name to the URL of your preference. Or, if I understand correctly, the Mod_Rewrite rules are automatically generated, so you would simply configure the document root for each addon domain name to the directory where the .htaccess file with these rules is stored. Thank you.

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