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March 2

Configuring an Add-On Domain

I have a web hosting plan that lets me have multiple domains: there's one top-level domain, but I can (for a fee) register additional domains that appear to the user to be top-level as well. The company calls these "add-on domains", although I'm not sure if that's a common term, or just their term.

I've registered two domains, and set one of them up with Wordpress, but I can't figure out how to set up the second one: do I have to install Wordpress again? I don't mind doing that: I just don't want to wipe out all the hard work I put into my original domain. I guess I'm confused about whether I'm supposed to treat these as two independent sites, or whether I'm supposed to just have one install of Wordpress and configure it internally to work with two different sets of web pages. Any help is appreciated. OldTimeNESter (talk) 23:51, 2 March 2017 (UTC)

Don't install Wordpress on the second domain, that would create two completely separate web sites. As for how to combine both sites, we can't answer that here, because it depends on how your hosting provider has set things up. Their help desk is the way to go. Jahoe (talk) 11:51, 3 March 2017 (UTC)

One possible configuration is to have a separate folder with the "add-on domain" and the second domain name pointing to this sub-folder. As Jahoe writes above, your domain registrar and hosting company will know the best way to set up the second domain on their system. Having both sets of files in the same folder will work, but the second domain will not appear independent of the main domain. Dbfirs 14:36, 3 March 2017 (UTC)