Just found out about this feature on CPanel, which allows me to point a second domain to my existing domain's hosting plan. This allows me to share resources like bandwidth and disk space. For those interested in knowing more can go here: http://www.accordmarketing.com/tid/articles/add-on-domains.html But my question is, will this cause some kind of duplicate content problem? If the seconddomain.com is 301'ed to firstdomain.com/seconddomain, there shouldnt be any problem right? I hope someone who used this feature before can provide some input. Thanks!
I dunno how that would be a problem. 1. The subdomain that corresponds to add-on domain is not linked to from ANHYWHERE. 2. You can 301 it to main domain.
I did a little test on a unused domain of mine. I checked the headers with this tool. Unlike what another thread says, it seems I can indeed do a 301 like saintdw suggested. According to that post, he got a "redirection limit has exceeded" error, after applying 301 from ht*p://firstdomain.com/seconddomain to ht*p://seconddomain.com. But if you look at my test setup, it appears fine. My test firstdomain -> hiptechblog.com My test seconddomain -> fishplant.com Going to http://www.hiptechblog.com/fishplant and http://fishplant.hiptechblog.com appears to properly 301 to http://www.fishplant.com This is what's inside my .htaccess: RewriteEngine on RewriteCond %{HTTP_HOST} ^fishplant.hiptechblog.com$ [OR] RewriteCond %{HTTP_HOST} ^www.fishplant.hiptechblog.com$ RewriteRule ^(.*)$ http://www.fishplant.com [R=301,L] redirect 301 /fishplant/ http://www.fishplant.com/ Code (markup): I hope some expert can tell me if I've done everything right. This might be useful to anyone else wanting to use cPanel's "Addon Domains" feature. And if I did something wrong, please let me know!
It seems to be working fine there. I have the same thing in my .htaccess and it was set up by my host I guess they are experts His error might be with one of the scripts he's using.
Thanks for confirming, saintdw! Wouldn't have any input if not for you. Seems like not many people uses addon domains. I guess most would just shell out the couple of bucks a month to get a dedicated account.
For those reading this thread, I've removed the test setup above. So don't be surprised with the links doesn't work. And if you follow the above setup, you should be able to successfully use cPanel's "Addon Domains" too!