A popular request is the ability to add additional domains to your hosting account that will resolve (point to) a separate website other than your current website. With OK Public, this is entirely possible and addon domains give you the ability to create a whole new website with its own domain under your current hosting account.

There may be special cases in which hosting accounts don’t have this feature enabled. If you think you should have this ability but are having issues with addon domains, please contact us.

How to Create a New Addon Domain

Please Note: Some of the control panel images may not coincide with your control panel exactly. But the basic concepts are the same no matter which control panel your account is currently setup to use.

1. Login into your control panel (http://yourdomain.com/cpanel) and click on “Addon Domains” or “Manage Addon Domains” from the home page of your control panel.
   
2. You should then see the follow fields or similiar fields along with an “Add Domain!” button:
   
   Here is an explanation of the fields:
   • New Domain Name: The new domain name that you are adding to your account
   • Username/directorysubdomain Name: This is the field that you use to tell the system which directory the new domain name should point to. This new directory will reside in the public_html directory in your account. So for instance, if you type in “newsite” in this field, the domain name will then resolve to the files in the directory “public_html/newsite/”
   • Password: This field is present because a new FTP account will be created with the addon domain that resolves just to this new website directory. This is handy if you are setting up a site under your hosting account for a friend for instance. Let’s say you set the password to be “password” (please don’t ever do that in real life though!). You’ve set the directory above to be “newsite” and now, once you click “Add Domain!”, there will be a new FTP account with the username “newsite@yourdomain.com” (note that your domain name, the new one you’re adding, will be appended to the end of the new FTP and account) and the password “password”.
3. Click “Add Domain!”

And that does it!

Please Note: It may take sometime for the new domain name to actually resolve to the directory you specified. It could take up to 24 hours, but more than likely it will resolve within a few hours.

Also Note: If you’re adding on a domain name that wasn’t ordered with OK Public, then you’ll need to change the DNS (domain name server) settings with the company that you registered the domain with. Here you’ll find the correct DNS entries that you’ll need to set.

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