Multiple Domains - The Same Website?

jeanpaul1979 said:

Hey all, I want to register a handful of domains and point them to the same folder on my Hostgator account that uses Cpanel.

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Why?

jeanpaul1979 said:

The problem I got from support is that it is only possible when I park them on top of my primary domain. And when I do that all those new domains will end up in my primary domain folder which is totally unrelated to the domains I want to register now.

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If you want multiple domain names to point to the same folder then you'll need to park them. You can use the "addon" method, but they'll each point to a seperate folder.

If you want to use the parked domain method you can use mod_rewrite to point them to a common folder.

If your primary domain was primarydomain.com and you wanted to have the parked domains parked1.com, parked2.com, etc. point to primarydomain.com/parked-domain-folder/ your rewrite rules would look something like the following

RewriteEngine on
RewriteCond %{HTTP_HOST} !primarydomain\.com$ [NC]
RewriteRule (.*) /parked-domain-folder/$1

jeanpaul1979 said:

Plus I want to do this more then once with different website subjects so having all my sites in one folder would just be a big mess.

Anyone know of a solution for this scenario?

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You could adjust the rewrite rules accordingly, but it doesn't look like you have the technicall skills to do that yet.

It would be easier if you upgraded to a reseller account. You could then create an account for each group of domains.

If I knew why you wanted to do this, I might be able to give you a better solution

Just use sub domains. What's the point of having different subject niches all pointing to the same website?

Do you have access to your httpd.conf file? If so setup domain aliases, i.e.

ServerName example.com:80
ServerAlias example2.com
ServerAlias example3.com
etc...

I have taken older domains that used to be profitable and just pointed them to other affiliate program along the same line. Not sure why you would buy several domains and point them all to the same page to start. Maybe they are misspellings?