Before you can create an addon domain in cPanel and successfully use it, you must change the name servers for the addon domain name to match the name servers of the primary domain of your cPanel. The cPanel will allow you to create an addon domain even if the addon domain you are adding is not registered or is not propagated to the server you are setting it up on. This makes it easy to avoid downtime if you are moving an existing domain from another host or server over to your cPanel as an addon domain.
About addon domains
Addon domains are handled like subdomains as far as the server is concerned, but to the outside world they are separate domains.
When you setup an addon domain, you enter the domain name only (without www. or http://). The system will automatically suggest an appropriate subdomain and document root. The subdomain and FTP account will be automatically generated by cPanel upon creation of the addon domain. You do not have to create those manually.
The FTP account which is created will only have access to the document root you have specified for the new addon domain.
Addon domains do not have their own cPanel, however, you may create or modify anything for your addon domain that cPanel will create or modify for your primary domain ( E-mail accounts, redirects, fantastico installations, subdomains, etc. ).
Web stats for your addon domain will be found within the icon of the web stat program you select in cPanel. If you are using an older cPanel theme such as "X", you will need to look under subdomain stats to find the web stats.
You may actually load your addon domain in one of three ways:
- http://addondomain.com/ ( As an addon domain )
- http://addondomain.com.primarydomain.com/ ( As a sub domain )
- http://primarydomain.com/addondomain.com/ ( As a sub folder )
Unless otherwise specified by a script you have installed on this addon domain, all three examples should load the very same content.
