Pointing Domain to Web Hosting Package held by another provider

[Shoxt3r]

Hi there,

I’ve recently registered a domain with a provider and setup a hosting package with a different company. What I would like to do is point my domain to a subdirectory on the host so that it appears to be on the same package. For example:

My domain is shoxt3r.com. It is unrelated to my web hosting company. I want to be able to point to a subdirectory held on www.adomainname.com at /newfolder. What would I need to do to “mask” the domain so that it appears as “shoxt3r.com/newfolder”?

So far I have changed the nameservers for the domain so that they match the ones provided by my web host but what is the next step to achieve the above?

Cheers.

Andrew

[Shoxt3r]

Any thoughts please?

[pshyco]

are u using cPanel ??
then bind domain directory where your site is hosted in stand of Public_html

[gate2vn]

@Shoxt3r

My domain is shoxt3r.com. It is unrelated to my web hosting company. I want to be able to point to a subdirectory held on www.adomainname.com at /newfolder. What would I need to do to “mask” the domain so that it appears as “shoxt3r.com/newfolder”?

Is your hosting vendor supporting for domain pointer (or parked domain)?

[Shoxt3r]

@pshyco

are u using cPanel ??
then bind domain directory where your site is hosted in stand of Public_html

I’m not, no. This is purely through either FastHosts or 123Reg’s own control panel.

@gate2vn

Is your hosting vendor supporting for domain pointer (or parked domain)?

They don’t look to be. I have full control over the DNS settings on the domain side of things though. The web host (FastHosts) don’t seem to provide any domain parking facility. I have contacted them since and they forwarded this reply:

@FastHosts

Dear Andrew

Thank you for contacting us back.

With regards to pointing mywebsite.com on another domain’s subdirectory, You can add a CName record on mywebsite.com Advance DNS page .

You can refer to the link below for screen shots on how you can add the CName:

https://help.fasthosts.co.uk/app/answers/detail/a_id/1546/kw/CName/track/AvPx1wpvDv8S~ZyFGmMc~yI5dOEqAy75Mv_g~zj~PP9p

Thanks again for contacting us.

Best regards,

Laurence Sagolili

[gate2vn]

From what I understood your request, you don’t want to point http://shoxt3r.com to http://originaldomain.com/folder, but you want it to be shown as http://shoxt3r.com/folder. Is that correct? In that case, you will need to configure shoxt3r.com as a domain pointer or parked domain of originaldomain.com, and it needs to be configured at your hosting vendor, not from domain DNS.

Is that what you want?

[Shoxt3r]

Yes that’s perfect! Sorry for the late reply. Would i need to transfer my domain over to my web host then rather than keeping it at my domain host? Are there any terms I should look out for to make these changes?

Cheers,

Andrew

[gate2vn]

You don’t need to transfer your domain to the host. If you updated name servers already, just ask your host how to add that domain into your current hosting account as a domain pointer. They should support it.