Multiple domains under one site.

Discussion in 'DNS/Domain names' started by paddleon, Jul 27, 2015.

  1. Read the FAQ and various forum messages but still a bit puzzled on how to do this based on my attempt to add a domain pointer. The goal is to add two new domains (one registered and hosted outside of Winhost and one registered and hosted at Winhost) to the primary site.

    Main Winhost domain and site is located at the root:
    WinhostPrimary.net

    Outside Winhost domain nonWinhostdomain.net has a new folder set as application starting point in a subfolder of WinhostPrimary.net.
    WinhostPrimary.net/nonWinhostdomain

    To my understanding, the required steps to accomplish this are:
    1. Add a domain pointer to WinhostPrimary.net that points to www.nonWinhostdomain.net.
    2. Change the name servers at nonWinhostdomain.net to point to the NSx Winhost name servers.
    3. Setup the URL rewrite rules.

    The secondary Winhost domain Winhostsecondary.net and also has a new subfolder under the primary root and is an application starting point. This is where I've stumbled so far. When attempting to add a domain pointer to WinhostPrimary that points to Winhostsecondary.net, it fails with "Domain name is already hosted at Winhost.

    So my guess is you have to edit the A record fields for WinhostSecondary to point to the IP address of WinhostPrimary and then do URL rewrites.

    Is this correct?

    If email aliases are used for the new domains, they will receive email as before but all outgoing email will use WinhostPrimary for the headers.

    Is this correct?
    Am I missing something?

    Thanks for any help.
    Gene
     
    Last edited by a moderator: Oct 14, 2015

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