How do I connect a sub-domain hosted elswhere onto x10hosting?

[nzstephe]

Hey,
I am a newbie and not sure how to do one (probably simple) task, I want to connect a sub-domain which was created/hosted by another hosting service to x10hosting without changing the nameservers. How can I setup the subdomain to be used on x10?

 

[Sharky]

That depends on the other hosting service but I'm not entirely sure you can. You could use a simple http/html redirect to forward all users to your x10.mx subdomain...

<meta HTTP-EQUIV="REFRESH" content="0; url=http://.x10.mx/">

...or...

RedirectMatch 301 ^(.*)$ http://.x10.mx/

...in your .htaccess on your other host

 

[nzstephe]

Hey Sharky,
I meant as in adding it as an add-on domain. I've been trying to add a subdomain of my main website to x10 since yesterday and having trouble doing that. My subdomain was setup on GoDaddy. Could you still help?

 

[Anna]

To be able to set domains as addon, or parked, we actually do require that you set our name servers, if they are not set you will get an error.

 

[Sharky]

You'll need to set up an A record to point to the server's IP, but may have to temporarily set your nameservers to ns1.x10hosting.com and ns2.x10hosting.com whilst you do so, for cPanel to verify the domain.

GoDaddy's support site will be your best place to look for help - my domains aren't hosted through GoDaddy so I have no experience using their config. I would suggest and recommend setting your domain up through CloudFlare, however, for improved site resource loading performance - it's basically a free CDN.

 

[nzstephe]

Thanks Anna and Sharky!! Much appreciated!!

 

[Sharky]

Just be aware that by adding it as a DNS 'A' record, it's somewhat unsupported. Also in the rare event that the server IP address changes, you may/will experience some downtime as the change will require you to action it.