Not sure how to ask this, but I recently parked another domain into my account. I want it to be a separate website with nothing to do with my main site, other than to share the resources. I at least figured out how to make each of my sites respond to their own .com; but internally, what I put as the index page for one domain shows up as the index for the other.

I tried the addon domain business, but I had to have one be part of the URL for the other:

I want there two be two separate domains:

www.donaghe.biz

www.vita-man-lc.com

And I don't want there to be anything related about them. I thought hostony was capable of allowing this when it says: with the Special offer I am supposed to be able to have "full domains", each with it's own directory, structure, mailserver, databases, ftp, logins, etc.

But that's not how it is. Under addon domains, I had something like this:

www.donaghe.biz/vita-man.com

Under parked domains, when I change the index for vita-man, the index changes in donaghe.biz.

And it certainly is no better as a subdomain. So is there really a difference?

You're almost there !

A parked domain will always point to an existing domain.
That way you can have example.com and example.net and example.org
all sharing the same webpages.

A sub domain is exactly that. SUB
blog.example.com shop.example.com example.example.com
basically a sub folder under your main site.

What you are looking for is the addon domain.
Kinda confusing but this can also be accessed as a subdomain
as it is a sub directory under your main site.

Like my web site....
myshop.artrocity.com is the same as music-movies-shop.us
all the files are in the myshop folder but the DNS at hostony makes
sure it resolves to the music-movies-shop.us

Hope this helps...

Addon domain is a separate domain under your account. It have it's own content, mail accounts, ftp accounts, it's stats.
In the mean time addon domain is technically an alias for a subdomain on your main site.

Actually I began with an addon domain, but as I said, it was set up so that I had to have my main domain as part of the URL:

donaghe.biz/vita-man-lc.com or something like that.

I want the two to be separate. I want donaghe.biz to be one

and vita-man-lc.com to be two.

It's not working that way.

I think that this is what you need.

http://help.hostony.com/

some tutorials on CPanel
and how to create an ADDON domain.

Nope. Sorry.

I do NOT want to have donaghe.biz/vita-man-lc.com together in the same URL

I want the new domain to have it's own URL

www.vita-man-lc.com

I do not want the two associated or one dependent upon the other. I want each to have their own index page. I do not want the index pages to update the other.

As I said, I began with the addon domain and was disappointed, because it's not it's own domain. Call it what you will the addon domain is nothing more in appearance than a subdomain.

Thanks for your help, however.

Ron Donaghe

I have
my4x4toys.com
clineranch.com
lynneslearningloft.com all under the site I registered as my4x4toys.com.

these are all seperate domains.

you add additional domains just like stated above, thru the addon domains option. works like a charm.

Yes. that's exactly what I want. I'll try going back to addon domains. My problem with it, however, was not being able to separate out the domains and having to have one follow-on the url after the other, as if it was a subdomain. And I couldn't figure out how to be able to have an index.html in one without it updating in the other.

Ron

1. Visit http://help.hostony.com to know how to configure your domain names
2. Also you will need to change name servers for all of your domain names to ours (this info was sent to you at your account activtion e-mail).

It does create a subdomain, but the addon domain points to that subdomain. Say your addon domain is "addon.net" and your sub folder is called "subfolder." To update the index page for addon.net you'd update the index.html file in subfolder. It will have no effect on your existing domain. That index.html file will still be the one which people see when they type in your main domain name.

In other words, the addon domain doesn't create a whole new account, it just lets you point a domain name to a folder (any folder you choose) in your existing account.

I hope this cleared things up a bit.

Thanks for everyone's help. I got it done.

Ron