Domain/DNS on godaddy or other pointing to subdomain on my hosting account?

[angelagail]

Hello,
Im new to domain/hosting issues, but until now i have simply been forwarding domain names from godaddy to my hosting on webhosting buzz.
How do i point the DNS of a domain in godaddy to a subdirectory in my hosting account ? is this possible?

[Alan B]

Sure. In cPanel, create a sub-domain with the name you want. That sub-domain will resolve to a sub-directory of the same name, accessible either by:

subname.yourdomain.com

or

yourdomain.com/subname

In your domain control panel at Godaddy, enter subname.yourdomain.com as the domain to resolve to from however you're pointing the domain. (There are several ways to point one domain to another, I'm not sure how you're doing it or what Godaddy allows. You could always host the domain name here at WHB, so you can manage it in your WHB account.)

[angelagail]

oopse i worded this wrong. i meant subdirectory.

how can i get the godaddy url to go to the subdirectory on my hosting account ?
i know i can forward it, but that just throws the site into a frame and doesnt allow direct linking to internal pages of the site.

would i point the godaddy dns to:
NS100.WHBDNS.COM
NS101.WHBDNS.COM

and then what?


thanks!!
angela

[Vitaliy K.]

Angela,

Could you please specify what exactly would you like to do?

If you want the domain name to be hosted with us, you just need to point it to the above mentioned name servers.

In case you want the domain name hosted at GoDaddy, and you want just this subdomain to be hosted with us, you need to add a corresponding A record for this subdomain at your GoDaddy domain control panel (this would be an A record pointing to our server's IP address) and then, if this domain name is the main domain name for your hosting account at WebHostingBuzz, you just need to create this subdomain in your cPanel, and if it's not the main domain, you will need to add this subdomain as addon domain.

Hope this helps.

[angelagail]

no, i have a hosting account with webhostingbuzz.
the root directory for my webhosting is assigned to a url at godaddy > mysite.com

i would like a subdirectory in my main hosting account (mysite.com/subdirectory) to be anothersite.com , a different domain that was registered with godaddy.
if i point the dns to webhostingbuzz, how do i specify that the domain root be a specified folder in my hosting account, rather than the root directory?

[angelagail]

i had just worded it wrong in the title, i didnt mean subdomain, i meant subdirectory.
i would like to keep my domain at godaddy, but point it to a subdirectory in my webhostingbuzz hosting account.

[angelagail]

Hello?

i am working on client sites and am having trouble figuring out how to properly point the dns of a godaddy domain name to a subdirectory in my hosting account.
if i point the dns to the whb nameserver, how do i specify that i want the site files pulled from my account/my subdirectory? without forwarding the domain?

[Vitaliy K.]

Angela,

Your description perfectly matches the addon domain feature in cPanel. When creating an addon, a subdirectory for this domain's content will also be created (it's indicated as Document Root during the creation).

You can find more information and a tutorial on our wiki.

A video tutorial is available here.

[angelagail]

the site im trying to host is wearetheseries.com


well i did the a/cname in zone file in cpanel as such:

wearetheseries.com.thegraphixlab.com.	14400	IN	A	64.22.77.244
www.wearetheseries.com.thegraphixlab.com.	14400	IN	CNAME	thegraphixlab.com
ftp.wearetheseries.com.thegraphixlab.com.	14400	IN	A	64.22.77.244

then i went into godaddy and set the nameservers to:

NS100.WHBDNS.COM
NS101.WHBDNS.COM

and edited the A Record there to ip address:

64.22.77.244

then i went to add-on domain in cpanel which created a subdirectory, i moved the site files into that subdirectory, but it never completes the addon domain thing, it gives me an error:

Error from park wrapper: Using nameservers with the following IPs: 74.81.66.214,184.95.32.70 Sorry, the domain is already pointed to an IP address that does not appear to use DNS servers associated with this server. Please transfer the domain to this servers nameservers or have your administrator add one of its nameservers to /etc/ips.remotedns and make the proper A entries on that remote nameserver.

what does this error mean?
in godaddy now the dns manager says "not hosted here" so that part worked at least, but im not sure now where its resolving because when i navigate to the URL wearetheseries.com i get "server not found"

did I do all of this right? or is there something that I did wrong? are these the correct name servers/IP address?

[angelagail]

the entries for the main domain in the zone file look like this:

thegraphixlab.com.	14400	IN	A	64.22.77.244
localhost.thegraphixlab.com.	14400	IN	A	127.0.0.1
mail.thegraphixlab.com.	14400	IN	CNAME	thegraphixlab.com
www.thegraphixlab.com.	14400	IN	CNAME	thegraphixlab.com
ftp.thegraphixlab.com.	14400	IN	A	64.22.77.244

so i just copied all of the info from those and applied it to my new entries, was that correct or did i do that all wrong?

[Wesley S.]

Angela,

According to whois wearetheseries.com is pointed to NS61.ABSTRACTDNS.COM and NS62.ABSTRACTDNS.COM and that's how it should be because your are hosted on on the reseller server that uses current name servers.

As for a/cname in zone file in cpanel : you should have used wearetheseries.com without thegraphixlab.com. But it looks like it's all set now and your domain resolves correctly.