Using Addon Domains

The Basics

You can have multiple domain names share the space on your Cpanel account.

It works like this:

Your primary domain, example.com uses the directory ~/public_html for it's website files
Your first addon domain, domain.com uses the directory ~/public_html/domain for its website files
Your next addon domain, addon.com uses the directory ~/public_html/addon for its website files

and so on.

Howto

1. Login to Cpanel (http://example.com/cpanel)∞.
2. Click on Addon Domains
3. Fill in the following boxes:

• New Domain Name: addon.com
• Username/directory/subdomain Name: addon
• Password: (choose a password)

4. Now you can login to your Cpanel account using FTP and upload the file to ~/public_html/addon

Advanced Usage

The Username/directory/subdomain Name: above not only creates the directory "addon", but also a subdomain called addon.example.com and an FTP user account addon@example.com

The FTP user account is useful if you want to give someone access to upload files to the Addon Domain, but don't want to give them your Cpanel password. Just give them addon@example.com for the username and the password you entered above, and they can upload files to that directory only.

The Subdomain is how Cpanel keeps track of which Addon Domains belong to which account. When you want to view website statistics (visitors, referring sites, etc), you'll look for the Subdomain Stats in Cpanel, rather than the primary domain's stats.

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