Domains, sub-domains and help needed.

simpletom

simpletom

simpletom

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Hi

Right, don't laugh.

I have two domains registered under Register1. One is for my own use as a messing around thing and the other is under the name of a project I am aiming to be serious about.

I have hosting seperate, 5quidhost are the providers.

The aim is that I want these two to be virtually seperate. One will have daft stuff like holiday pics and so on, while the other will have content delivered by Moodle. However, I want a different splash page and so on for both.

Using the CP (control panel, not the Gary Glitter type of CP) I can see that there are controls for sub-domains.

I am lost, can somebody, in a nutshell, expalin what is the best way of going about this and also the most secure. I don't want my personal one associated with the 'professional' one.

I know next to nothing about this stuff and not pretending I do. I can, however, use Moodle and install it on to the webspace.

Many thanks.
 
so on domain1.com you want 2 sites so what you could do is create a sub domain for each splash page.

Example sub1.domain1.com | sub2.domain1.com

Sub1.domain1.com folder called Sub1 = holiday pics e.t.c
Sub2.domain1.com folder called Sub2 = moodle content

Get me?
 
optitech-uk said:
so on domain1.com you want 2 sites so what you could do is create a sub domain for each splash page.

Example sub1.domain1.com | sub2.domain1.com

Sub1.domain1.com folder called Sub1 = holiday pics e.t.c
Sub2.domain1.com folder called Sub2 = moodle content

Get me?
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Yes, that sounds cool. Now, to muddy the waters the CP allows 'Addon Domains', with the explanation :

"An addon domain allows you to reach a sub-domain when entering the name of the addon domain into a browser. This means that you can host additional domains from your account, if allowed by your hosting provider."

So, if I am reading this correctly, I can avoid the whole 'subdomain' thing and therefore having my personal name included in the 'domain1' part?

As you can understand, I really don't want my personal name used as it looks a little naff and may attract unwanted attention. I am a faily ICT literate lecturer who wishes to develop distance learning seperate form my work's proceedures. a private project to be used as a portfolio, if you like.

I appreciate your help so far.

What I want is:

www.myname.org.uk - points to my carcrash of a site.
www.mynewlearningsite.org.uk - points to my Moodle site.

Again, many thanks.
 
simpletom said:
Yes, that sounds cool. Now, to muddy the waters the CP allows 'Addon Domains', with the explanation :

"An addon domain allows you to reach a sub-domain when entering the name of the addon domain into a browser. This means that you can host additional domains from your account, if allowed by your hosting provider."

So, if I am reading this correctly, I can avoid the whole 'subdomain' thing and therefore having my personal name included in the 'domain1' part?
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An addon domain is used when you own another domain and you want to add it so you don't have to pay for 2 webspaces.

Lets say domain1.com is your main site and it allows addon domains you could add domain2.com to your existing setup but this will point to a subfolder in root. For example domain1.com > root/ | domain2.com > root/ > domain2/

Hope this is all clear.

simpletom said:
As you can understand, I really don't want my personal name used as it looks a little naff and may attract unwanted attention. I am a faily ICT literate lecturer who wishes to develop distance learning seperate form my work's proceedures. a private project to be used as a portfolio, if you like.

I appreciate your help so far.

What I want is:

www.myname.org.uk - points to my carcrash of a site.
www.mynewlearningsite.org.uk - points to my Moodle site.

Again, many thanks.
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In this case what your looking for is an addon domain so using the method above it would be www.myname.org.uk to root/ | www.mynewlearningsite.org.uk to root/ > mynewlearningsite.org.uk folder.

Catch my drift?

Remember: A sub domain is LIKE www. part of the website so you could have site1.domain1.com or site2.domain1.com.
Remember: An addon domain allows to point a new url to a sub folder of main site domain1.com > root/ | domain2.com > root/ > subfolder

Hope this helps.
 
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