Using multiple domains under the same hosting plan

  • terrywyse

    (@terrywyse)


    14 years, 9 months ago

    I’ve purchased a web hosting plan with GoDaddy and have just started poking around with WordPress (warning: WP noob!).

    I have two domains…let’s call them <primarydomain.com> and <secondarydomain.com>. I would like to run them both from the single web hosting plan since my storage needs are modest.

    I’ve already installed WP for the primary domain and created a sub directory/folder called secondary domain and installed WP there to run the other WP site…so far so good. My problem is I would like folks to be able to access the secondary domain as http://www.secondarydomain.com/ instead of http://www.primarydomain.com/secondarydomain/.

    Is there a way I can make the secondary domain URL show as the “root” instead of as a sub directory of the primary domain without moving any of the files or purchasing a second web hosting plan?

    If there’s a better way to accomplish this, I’m all ears.

    Thanks,
    Terry

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  • do77

    (@do77)

    14 years, 9 months ago

    You could set-up a dummy domain and connect it to your hosting. Then you create two folders, /primary and /secondary and link your domain primary.com with the folder /primary and secondary.com with /secondary.

    Thread Starter terrywyse

    (@terrywyse)

    14 years, 9 months ago

    I’m sorry, could you explain further?

    Not sure what a dummy domain is….both of my domains are registered.

    I did build another site for someone where I had all the WP stuff in a sub folder called /wordpress but then simply moved the index file to the root, changed the paths and it all worked.

    In this case, I think I want folks directed to the sub folder for the second domain but have the URL not show that it’s a sub folder (the primary domain will already have the index file in the root….so I can’t place TWO index files in the root….but I want the second domain to appear AS IF it’s in the root of the domain name.)

    Not sure if I’m explaining that correctly or not….but maybe you can understand what I’m trying to do.

    Terry

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