{"id":34119,"date":"2021-09-30T02:31:06","date_gmt":"2021-09-30T02:31:06","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.hostduplex.com\/kb\/?post_type=ht_kb&p=34119"},"modified":"2021-09-30T18:11:06","modified_gmt":"2021-09-30T18:11:06","slug":"how-to-setup-a-cpanel-addon-domain","status":"publish","type":"ht_kb","link":"https:\/\/www.hostduplex.com\/kb\/article\/how-to-setup-a-cpanel-addon-domain\/","title":{"rendered":"How to setup a cPanel addon domain"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

An addon domain is a fully functional domain name attached to an already existing web hosting account via a control panel, such as cPanel. This will allow you to create\u00a0additional services, websites, email addresses and fowarders, all within the same control panel as your primary domain.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Related: What is an addon domain and how do they work?<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

  1. Login to cPanel<\/li>
  2. Once on your dashboard, click on Addon Domains. You can use the search bar or scroll down to the Domains section to find it<\/li><\/ol>\n\n\n\n
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    3. Enter the new addon domain\u2019s name in the New Domain Name<\/em> text box. cPanel will automatically fill in the Subdomain<\/em> and Document Root<\/em> text boxes<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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    4. If you wish to create an FTP account for your addon domain name, check the option Create an FTP account associated with this Addon Domain<\/strong>. The FTP username will be filled automatically. Set a password and click on Add Domain<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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    Congratulations! You’ve succesfully created an addon domain. You can manage it on the Modify Addon Domain section below Create an Addon Domain.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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    An addon domain is a fully functional domain name attached to an already existing web hosting account via a control panel, such as cPanel. This will allow you to create\u00a0additional services, websites, email addresses and fowarders, all within the same control panel as your primary domain. Related: What is an…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"inline_featured_image":false,"footnotes":""},"ht-kb-category":[3,20],"ht-kb-tag":[161,23,162],"class_list":["post-34119","ht_kb","type-ht_kb","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","ht_kb_category-account-management","ht_kb_category-cpanel","ht_kb_tag-addon-domain","ht_kb_tag-cpanel","ht_kb_tag-domain"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hostduplex.com\/kb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/ht-kb\/34119","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hostduplex.com\/kb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/ht-kb"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hostduplex.com\/kb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/ht_kb"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hostduplex.com\/kb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hostduplex.com\/kb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=34119"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.hostduplex.com\/kb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/ht-kb\/34119\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":34143,"href":"https:\/\/www.hostduplex.com\/kb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/ht-kb\/34119\/revisions\/34143"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hostduplex.com\/kb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=34119"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"ht_kb_category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hostduplex.com\/kb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/ht-kb-category?post=34119"},{"taxonomy":"ht_kb_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hostduplex.com\/kb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/ht-kb-tag?post=34119"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}