Parked Domain

[Mark]

Hey all,

My main domain is archeron.org - and I registered a new domain we'll call 'parked.com'

I chose to park the domain under archeron.org, and set the redirect to http://archeron.org/parked/

Now, it has been about 2 hours since I bought the domain, and different companies show the domain as registered, and not available.

I have the directory + an index.html created in public_html/parked

However, I cannot access the domain via parked.com or parked.archeron.org

Any ideas? Thanks!

- Mark

[Depeche]

What happens when you go there? What error. What what?!!

[Mark]

Just the standard Firefox error, 'Page not available'

DNS is set to hostmonster default:

ns1.hostmonster.com
ns2.hostmonster.com

Same as the main domain.

[Mark]

Okay, DNS activated and it's working...

BUT:

I want it to display as parked.com when people go to it, not redirect itself to my domain, does that mean I need to use it as an add on? Little confused on how to do this part.

Basically, I want it to say parked.com when I go to parked.com, NOT to display parked.com as archeron.org/parked

[shadmego]

You would need to add it as an addon, not a parked domain.

A parked domain is one that points to the master domain.

For instance, my church has an old website we will call www.old.com (http://www.old.com). Our new site is called www.new.org (http://www.new.org). We recently informed our old host we will not longer be keeping the old site, but we want to keep the name. Once I transfer the domain to HM, and pay the extra money, if I leave it as is, it will be considered a "parked" domain, which is to say if you go to either www.old.com (http://www.old.com), or www.new.org (http://www.new.org), they will both point to the same website, and the browser will show www.new.org (http://www.new.org).

This is fine for us, but if I wanted to create it's own site, I would have to set old.com up as an addon domain. That way it would have it's own "URL" so-to-speak.

~regards

[Mark]

Excellent!

Thanks, works perfectly =)

[Mark]

Another issue has come up...

I setup a new Wordpress installation under the newdomain.com - Currently it is set up as an Addon domain under my main site, archeron.org

Now, I cannot access the Wordpress site from the URL I setup "newdomain.com/blog" it does not exhist. However, I CAN access it from archeron.org/newdomain.com/blog

How can I set newdomain.com to not 'look for' anything to do with archeron.org?

Add on domains set new folders under the main domain, which is why I assume I cannot use newdomain.com in the same fashion.

How can I make newdomain.com/blog work?

[vincent_thinkman]

whenever u creat an addon domain u should note to fill Document Root correctly . I think u have been fill it as public_html/archeron/newdomain.com
Thats ur mistake
change the document Root to public_html/newdomain
u can also delete the addon n try to creat it again .
usually when I wanna creat a forum , I make a subdomain for the forum.better ur site has a indexpage , I mean whenever users go to newsite.com they will meet a welcome page and they can go to ur forum easily . so ur forum root is forum.newsite.com its look better I think. maybe u wanna add something more to newsite.com example joomla and etc
so u need a welcome page.