A. An addon domain is a fully functional domain that will work out of a folder in your main site's FTP. This means you can have a completely separate functional website, but it pulls from a folder of your main site. Although it has the appearance of a separate website, you are actually sharing the resources and functions of your main account and getting 2 sites with one account.
Q. READ THIS BEFORE SETTING UP AN ADDON DOMAIN!
You cannot create an addon domain if your DNS hasn't proprograted to our servers already. So after you change the new addon domain name's DNS, you will need to wait 24-48 hours before attempting to create your addon domain.
A. There are three fields cpanel asks for when creating an addon domain:
1. "New Domain Name:" You will put in the newdomain.com. Do not put 'www' in the name!
2. "Username/directory/subdomain Name:" This will be the folder cpanel creates in your main accounts FTP. MAKE SURE that the name you give it doesn't already have a folder. Example... If you want to give it the username 'chris', you cannot have a folder in your account named 'chris' already. If you do and still try creating the username for the addon domain to be 'chris', you will mess a lot of things up!
3. "Password:" fill in any password you want here.
Q. I added an addon domain. Why did it say subdomain added?
A. It creates it as a subdomain by creating the folder within your main sites FTP. Please ignore this! It is a fully functional domain name. It is only called a subdomain when in fact it is an addon domain.
