Addon Domain Document Root Directory

[steve.ancheta32]

a blessed day to all,

I want to host another domain on my hosting account. I want to organize my websites by putting them on separate folders on my account root directory. but every time I add a domain and removing public_html on the document root path, it will still put the addon domain document root path inside public_html.

The reason I need this is because example I put my second domain to public_html/seconddomain folder, i don't want anybody to access the second domain site by www.primarydomain.com/seconddomain.

Many thanks in advance.

 

[descalzo]

that is the way that the system is set up here. You cannot avoid it.

What you can do is use the htaccess file in public_html to bar entry to the subdomain via the main domain.

Edit/Correction:

Use the .htaccess in the subdirectory containing the add-on

RewriteEngine On
RewriteCond %{HTTP_HOST} ^(www\.)?yourmaindomain\.com$ [NC]
RewriteRule ^(.*)$ http://www.yourparentdomain.com [R=301,L]

This way, if they are entering the sub-directory via the maindomain, they will be redirected to the front page of the main domain (you can send them to anypage).

 

[steve.ancheta32]

Thank you so much descalzo for your quick response. I appreciate it so much. And thanks for clarification regarding my hosting account and thank you for the instruction. I will try to do it now.

Another question, if is it possible to change the root directory folder of my main domain to a folder inside public_html? But not by using cPanel>Domains>Redirects. so that I will only see my maindomain folder and addondomain folder inside my public_html folder. I just want it to be neat.

 

[Anna]

public_html will be the document root for your main domain.

It is doable through .htaccess to use a subfolder as document root for the main domain though, let me see if I can round up where I found the info when I was looking for it.

ADD: Believe this is where I found the info when I needed it a while back: http://www.zimplicit.se/knowledge/how-host-primary-domain-subfolder-using-htaccess (site is Swedish, but the important information is in English)

 

[steve.ancheta32]

Thank you so much anna for your quick response. I'm very impress with the help that x10hosting is giving even if the service is free.

I have done the instruction but I'm having 404 error message always.
I have done some research but they have also the same instruction.
I posted here my .htaccess i think this will be needed for you to help me.

RewriteEngine on
RewriteCond %{HTTP_HOST} ^(www.)?kenya.x10.mx$
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_URI} !^/kenya.x10.mx/
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-f
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-d
RewriteRule ^(.*)$ /kenya.x10.mx/$1
RewriteCond %{HTTP_HOST} ^(www.)?kenya.x10.mx$
RewriteRule ^(/)?$ kenya.x10.mx/index.html [L]

Just for testing I only put now one file on the "kenya.x10.mx" subdirectory which is index.html with a basic hello world code.

Add: I tried it on another webhosting company and it works. Maybe something to do with Lotus server that causing me this 404 error..?

 

[steve.ancheta32]

Dear x10Hosting admins,

I humbly ask for any feedback regarding 404 error after I edit the .htaccess file as per instruction.

Sincerely,
Steve