How to manage Add-on Domains in cPanel

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Overview

How to manage Add-on Domains in cPanel with this article, you will get to know more about Add-on domains allow you to control multiple domains from a single account. An add-on domain links a new domain name to a directory in your account and then stores its files in that directory.

Create an add-on domain

in the first part of how to manage Add-on Domains in cPanel, you will learn how to create an add-on domain

Log in to your cPanel account.
The Control Panel home page will appear, at the Domain menu, click on the Add-on Domains icon.
Enter the new add-on domain's name in the New Domain Name text box. When you enter the domain name, cPanel automatically populates the Subdomain and Document Root text boxes.
To create multiple add-on domains with the same username and different extensions (for example, example.com and example.net ), manually enter a unique username in the Subdomain text box.
To choose a document root other than the automatically populated value, manually enter the directory name in the Document Root text box.

Notes

The house icon represents the cPanel account's home directory.
For example, if you enter example1.com in the Directory text box and the cPanel account uses the /home/example home directory, the Add-on Domain will exist in the /home/example/example1.com/ directory.

Create an FTP account associated with the Add-on domain

- cPanel automatically populates the FTP Username text box. To select a different FTP account username, manually enter the desired username.
- Enter and confirm the new password in the appropriate text boxes.To create an FTP account for the new add-on domain, select the Create an FTP account associated with this Add-on Domain checkbox.
  If you select this checkbox, additional settings will appear:
Click Add Domain.

Notes

The system evaluates the password that you enter on a scale of 100 points. 0 indicates a weak password, while 100 indicates a very secure password.
Some web hosts require a minimum password strength. A green password Strength meter indicates that the password is equal to or greater than the required password strength.
Click Password Generator to generate a strong password. For more information.

To add files to the add-on domain’s home directory, click File Manager.

When you create an add-on domain in the cPanel interface, the system automatically creates a subdomain. To alter or delete the subdomain after you create it, you may alter or delete the information that the add-on domain's website displays.

Also, when you create an add-on domain, parked domain, subdomain, or main domain, the system will attempt to automatically secure that domain with the best-available existing certificate.

Search add-on domains

To search the list of add-on domains, do the following steps:

Enter the search criteria into the Search box.
Click Go.

The interface lists results that match your search criteria.

Enable or disable add-on domain redirection

To disable or enable redirection of an add-on domain, perform the following steps:

Click Manage Redirection for the add-on domain that you wish to manage.
To redirect the domain, enter the link to which you wish to redirect the add-on domain.
Click Save, or, to disable the redirection, click Disable Redirection.