How to create Addons Domain in Your cPanel

cPanel has made it easier to manage your domains in a single place. In this post, we will go over how to add another domain to your existing cPanel account. This tutorial will require that you have a hosting account and have access to cPanel to add the domain.

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What is an addon domain?

Enter the Best cPanel Hosting dashboard “Addon Domains” feature allows you to manage multiple domains from a single hosting account. Unlike with Parked domains, Addon domains are expected to be completely different websites all hosted inside the same cPanel account. You can also create additional sub-accounts (for example, email addresses) for your addon domains.

How do I add the addon domain to cPanel?

To add an addon domain, we can use cPanel’s Addon Domains feature, in the Domains section of the cPanel interface.

1. Enter the domain name in the New Domain Name field. In this case, we will enter cpdocs.com.

2. Ensure the FTP username is appropriate in the next field. In this scenario, we will leave it as its default value, cpdocs.

3. Make sure that the document root is in the appropriate place. In this example, we will use the default value, /home/$user/cpdocs.com/.

4. Enter and confirm the password you want to use with this domain in the appropriate fields. Note- There is a checkbox to create an FTP account when adding your addon domain. Unless you specifically need an FTP account for the addon domain (i.e., allowing limited access to a developer or similar), we do not recommend creating this FTP account.

5. Click the Add button.

Verifying our DNS settings

When adding an addon domain, cPanel will automatically create a DNS zone file for the domain. From the Zone Editor interface, we can see that the A record for ‘cpdocs.com’ is set to 209.59.172.159, the cPanel account IP address. If you do not see those options, your account may not have the correct feature permissions. The next step is to talk to your hosting provider to have the Advanced DNS Editor feature added. Once these are enabled, you will be able to see all of the DNS records assigned to your domain.

Please make sure when editing the A record for your addon domain, there is a period at the end of the domain name.

Conclusion:

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