A Guide To Setting Up Sub-Domains

First things first:

To add a Sub-Domain you must first login to your control panel using :
http://www.lunarpages.com/login.php or http://yourdomain.com:2082
or http://yourdomain.com/cpanel/ or the secure logins https://server.lunarpages.com:2083/ and http://server.lunarpages.com/cpanel

Making sure of course to change 'server' for your server and 'yourdomain.com' for your domain

You will then be prompted to press a button with the text 'Proceed To Control Panel' on it. This is just added security, just Press it and carry on...

Inside your control panel
Here you see a screen full of information about your account and lots of Icons which you would use to control/change the settings of your account, add or update pages, and a lot more.

Sub-Domains

What's A Sub-Domain?
a Sub-Domain is a URL which looks like this http://subdomain.yourdomain.com , 'subdomain' being what you choose and 'yourdomain' being your domain.

With A Lunarpages account you get 15 free sub-domains.

To add a Sub-Domain you must first login to your control panel as I demonstrated above, then click on the following Icon:



you will then see a screen appear with the option to create a Sub-Domain, fill in the box and click 'Add' as shown below.



In the image above the domain is 0verd0se.co.uk and the subdomain is called 'subdomain' so it would be accessible by typing http://subdomain.0verd0se.co.uk in the address bar of any browser.

If your Sub-Domain is succesfully added you will get the message:

SubDomain Adder
The subdomain, subdomain.0verd0se.co.uk has been added.

By default if you create a Sub-Domain, it will create a folder in your sites main directory (public_html) and whatever is in that directory will show up when the Sub-Domain is accessed.  If you would like your Sub-Domain to redirect to a differnt folder then you must setup redirection.

To setup redirection click the 'Go Back' link which will take you back to the main Sub-Domains page.

You must now select the Sub-Domain you want to redirect and press the 'Setup Redirection' button.



On the next page that appears, simply type in the URL you would like the Sub-Domain to be pointed to and press the 'Save' button.

If you would like to add FTP accounts to your Sub-Domains you can check out this thread made by the wonderful Michelle http://www.lunarforums.com/forum/viewtopic.php?t=21643&highlight= 

Enjoy  

A Quick Guide To Setting Up Addon Domains

Before You Add A Addon Domain, you must change the settings at your domain registrar to point to Lunarpages.


You Must Also First E-Mail sales@lunarpages.com to order your Addon Domain Hosting, This will cost $2.50 a month charged in a lump sum to pay up until the end of your hosting contract.  You cannot add an addon domain until this has been activated

To find out what nameservers to use for your server check this thread.

To find out more about changing nameservers for particular registrars check this link. If your Domain registrar isn't in the 'Changing nameservers list' you can ask in the forums for some advice, or contact your domain Registrar.

First things first:

Once your addon domain Hosting has been activated you must login to your control panel using :
http://www.lunarpages.com/login.php or http://yourdomain.com:2082
or http://yourdomain.com/cpanel/ or the secure logins https://server.lunarpages.com:2083/ and http://server.lunarpages.com/cpanel

Making sure of course to change 'server' for your server and 'yourdomain.com' for your domain

You will then be prompted to press a button with the text 'Proceed To Control Panel' on it. This is just added security, just Press it and carry on...

Inside your control panel
Here you see a screen full of information about your account and lots of Icons which you would use to control/change the settings of your account, add or update pages, and a lot more.

Addon Domains

What's An Addon Domain?
An add-on domain will make it possible for you to have several websites (with email) on just one account.


Remember: Before You Add A Addon Domain You Must Change The Nameservers Of Your Domain To Point To Your Lunarpages Server, and have purchased hosting for it via sales@lunarpages.com!

To add an Addon Domain you must first login to your control panel as I demonstrated above, then click on the following Icon:



Once you click this link a new page will load, this is the page where you add your Addon Domain name, you will need to type the URL of your Addon domain into the text box labelled 'New Domain Name' and the text box labelled 'Username/directory/subdomain' (this is the directory name that your addon domain site will be situated in) press the 'Add Domain!' button, demonstrated as follows.



If your Addon Domain was successfully added you'll get the message:


Enjoy

well ofcourse

question... i have added several sub domains.  now how do i ftp files into that root folder for the sub domain?     and how long do i have to wait to do this (i just set up the sub domains about 10 minutes ago)

Edit: Things have been clarified. While the cpanel still says "Welcome olddomain.com", I can get into the new directory through the old public_html. I think things were still transitioning, and that's why I wasn't seeing it. Also, I was expecting it to be the opposite -- or something...nevermind. I should have been more patient

Message before the edit:

I changed my primary and delegated my now-former primary to an addon. It didn't go very smoothly, as the lp workers initially changed the former primary into a parked domain (this thread was helpful in assuring me that I wasn't going crazy and mis-defining what an addon is). Although I haven't heard anything back from them, that seems to be rectified.

However, I don't know how to access the directories of my new domain under cpanel (I layed out my question in a bit more detail here). I log in through the lunar pages secure login, and everything seems to be for my old primary. I'm new to this stuff, so I'm probably missing something basic. My login info will still be what it's always been, right?

Any help would be great.

Thank you, that was very helpful. I do have a question:

I just purchased a domain name and added it as a parked domain. For example, let's called parkeddomain.com. I would like to have that parked domain redirected to a subdomain of my main domain, so it would be like this:

parkeddomain.com ---> subdomain.maindomain.com

I already added the parked domain and created the subdomain. How do I set up the redirection? I was told that I should do a 'mod_rewrite', but I am not familiar with what that is or how to do it, and I don't know if that would be the best/only way. Could you please give me an idea? I thought this would be something I could easily do from the Cpanel, but it looks like it's more complex.

Thanks in advance.

Hello, Randy. I already tried that, but this option seems to be used to redirect a folder inside your main domain to something else. The beginning of your domain is pre-selected, so I am not able to do parkeddomain.com ---> subdomain.main.domain.com. It simply won't let me choose my park domain as the origin, just the main one.

Thanks for the quick reply.