By Kelly Golden, Directional Media Group
When looking through search engine to find out how to create a domain mapping system is almost impossible to fin the right information that you need. We decided to give you examples and the code that is needed to do so.
We have a number of different projects in the work right now, and don't what to pay for new hosting platforms for each domain name. What you can use to make this work is an .htaccess rewrite. Don't know what that is? Well basically what it does is tell your domain DNS to rewrite the pointing to a new folder, or sub folder.
For example you own two sites www.abc.com which helps kids learn how to read, and you want to create a different site say for math www.123.com , but you want both site hosted with the same package. So what you would need to create is an .htaccess file to point the two domains to different locations. Below is a sample .htaccess file using the addresses we talked about. Content you want to emphasize.
Notice that each domain point to a different sub-folder. It isn't necessary to have both pointing to a sub-folder just the newly added domain. The folder is named after the %{REQUEST_URI} !123/ notice the 123 that is what we named our folder under the primary htdocs folder or on some domains the root folder (sometimes also called www).
You can copy the code from above, and paste it into a notepad document, and all you have to remember to do is save it as a .htaccess file.
Where do I place this File?
You're going to have to place the .htaccess file under your root folder, whether it be htdocs, or www. If all is followed your new domain will be pointed to a separate folder on your main account. Good luck!
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