Wednesday, May 26, 2010

How to host multiple sites on iPage

When I registered my second domain on iPage I ran into a problem getting the proper content to the new domain I had put up. Here's a step by step guide to hosting a second domain on the same iPage account.

For the explanation we will have SiteA as your original primary domain, and SiteB as your secondary site that you are trying to get your new page content to. The trick is using the domain pointing manager. Here is how you do it--

Step 1. From the control panel click the File Manager link.

Step 2. From the Manage Files sidebar click New Directory and name it SiteB. (This will of course be your new website name here)

Step 3. From the drop down horizontal menu hover over the Domain tab and choose the Domain Pointing Manager link.

Step 4. This will list your registered domains. On the SiteB list, click the drop down menu and choose Subdirectory. In the Points To box type "SiteB/". Save settings.

Step 5. From the drop down horizontal menu hover over the Website tab and choose the FTP link.

Step 6. Scroll down to the Create New FTP Account and make a new Username and Password. In the FTP (Home) Directory type in "SiteB/".

There you go. In your web editing software now when you're using files for the new website use the login/password that you created specifically to go to your new domain. This way you can't accidently send things to your other website.

I hope this was helpful. If you have any problems leave me a comment and let me know.

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16 comments:

  2. I did everything in your steps perfect with no problems but the images in my "SiteB" will not show up when you view the site. Know of any reason why this happens? Thank you

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  3. Are you still updating your blog? 04/17/11 @ 1:04p.m.

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  4. Not really. Hah. If you're still having the problem post a link to your website so I can check it out. I've used the above technique a dozen times with no problems. Could just be a simple piece of code giving you the trouble.

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  5. thank you for posting this - I have been messing with this for the past 3 hours - I was about to throw in the towel and I found your post. Thank you - Shane

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  6. awesome worked perfectly - Shane

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  7. wow exactly what i was looking for thanks!!!

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  8. I've done this already but the problem I come across is when you set up your site;

    www.exampleA.com (Primary)
    www.exampleB.com (Secondary)

    you can still access your secondary content from the primary site??

    www.exampleA.com/exampleB

    How do you stop that???

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  9. Thanks. This helped a lot. This process is not there on iPage's site even.

    Affordable Internet Marketing

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  11. Great help, thanks :)

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  12. Thanks so much!!! I have looked everywhere to help me with this and your tip was the only one that helped! Great help thanks :)

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  13. Hello, It is helpful.but i am still confused. could you make a youtube? probably it will be easier for me to understand. Thanks a lot

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  14. Thanks for this, MASSIVE help. Appreciate the time you took.

    Cheers,
    dmh

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  15. That's all well and good but how do you get siteB to stop pointing to the index file in the root where siteA is stored? Type "www.siteB into a web browser and siteA comes up. The index file in your sub directory isn't being opened.

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  16. If you ever come across this, Charles, please know that you have saved me a lot of time.
    I thank you, sincerely.

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