Hi All, using godaddy to host my website and I’m looking to add another website to the server. How would I do this? Would I have two “index.html” files? How would the server know what goes where?
Thanks all in advance…
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First you have to have at least the Deluxe plan.
The Economy plan (the cheapest one) allows just one website.
If you have the Deluxe plan you just have to create folders for your new websites under the root (main) folder of your account. You can name them however you want, but I recommend you to name them by your domain name (just so it’s easy to organize them).
For example, for your new site (let’s call it mysite.com) create a folder named mysite or mysite.com (or whatever) copy all your (mysite.com) files including index.html to it, and then you just have to point your domain name mysite.com to this folder (from control panel).
And then just repeat this procedure for as many sites as you want.
Since your first site is probably directly in your root folder, and not in it’s own folder, you could create a folder for it also and move the files to it (just to tidy things up) or you could leave it as it is. It’s not a problem.
This depends – are you using a shared server or did you get a dedicated server with go daddy?
Are you running linux or windows?
If linux, you have to edit the /etc/httpd/httpd.conf file and add a host header directive to the file. You will find server alias directions within the file.
If windows, you will have to open IIS and create a new website. Then add host header entries and point it to the new directory structure on the server.
Go daddy can help. This is what I do for a living – let me know if you need more assistance.