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Daniel,

I take it you mean you used the redirect method?  So, in your hosted site, you had example2.net as a folder? 

What does the url look like when people go on to this site?  Do they still see example.com/example2.net?  Or just example2.net?

Is an “addon domain” yet another thing?  Maybe a cPanel thing, which I don’t use.  And the NS issue - well, if you’re just using the redirect method that doesn’t seem relevant.  Maybe I’ve misunderstood.

Hi,

I was under the impression you were using cpanel from your posts, forgive my mistake.

For those that may stumble upon this topic - the ‘addon domain’ just lets you host an additional domain from your account. A directory is created under your main accounts public_html directory, but essentially all that happens is a relevant virtual host is created with the ‘server’ document root set as this path. Yes you can reach the site by visiting domain1.com/domain2.com/ (i’m sure some clever htaccess could deny this, if needed) however the main point of acces will be just domain2.com. There is no redirection involved.

For those that may stumble upon this topic - the ‘addon domain’ just lets you host an additional domain from your account. A directory is created under your main accounts public_html directory, but essentially all that happens is a relevant virtual host is created with the ‘server’ document root set as this path. Yes you can reach the site by visiting domain1.com/domain2.com/ (i’m sure some clever htaccess could deny this, if needed) however the main point of acces will be just domain2.com. There is no redirection involved.

This has been most educational.  It turns out that’s how it works with my host, too.  Who knew?  The mysterious bowels of it all.

My guys set it up with the “domain pointing manager”. 

So, I put the directory a.k.a. new domain in a folder within the public_html folder.  e.g.,: site#1 is under Home/public_html/index.php and Site#2 is located at Home/public_html/site2/index.php

Here I had a bit of trouble figuring out how to set the $system_path variable in the path.php doc.  System folder is in /public_html/, so what would the relative path to the system folder be?  Not “../system/” as it says in the MSM guide.  At least that didn’t work.  I ended up using the whole root folder thing, which the host gave as “/home/users/web/blahblahblah/public_html/system/”

This is working just fine.  It’s all linked up, and it’s http://site#2.com/  Just like I want!  Now I need to go and design the site! (before I can reveal the actual url.  I’m sure you’re dying to know what you’ve enabled).

Thanks for all your help!  I am most enlightened/empowered/further along on my list of things to do!

I’m still bloody clueless on how to set this up with my host. They use a proprietary control panel and no cPanel like a lot of others.

Apparently I can’t setup two domains on one account. Does this bone me somewhat?

Have you talked to their support? It might not be automatic, but so far I haven’t seen a host who wouldn’t happily sell you an add-on domain.

Welcome to my hosts.

I have signed up with another host that has cPanel. Hopefully good times ahead 😊