Adding current DNS Zone to Hosting Account

[OJMadSnake]

Hi All,

Currently have a domain (example.com) that has been created as a DNS Zone as the administrator. I am now trying to add this domain to a hosting account, but am not able to as the domain already exists.

I tried adding the domain to /etc/virtual/domainowners:

example.com: example

but this doesn't add the domain to the user account.

Would be grateful for any help or pointers.

 

[Richard G]

Try this:
https://help.directadmin.com/item.php?id=58

 

[OJMadSnake]

Try this:
https://help.directadmin.com/item.php?id=58

Hi Richard,

I did have a look at this one yesterday, but I don't believe the DNS Zone has an owner. This would be to move a domain from one hosting user to another.

 

[Richard G]

A Domain (so DNS zone) always has an owner, which is the user having the domain in his account.
This help section I pointed to would indeed be to move a domain from one hosting user (account) to another hosting user (account) on the same server.

If you added it as admin to your account, it's under account admin, you can see it if you login as admin and choose user level on the right hand side.
In that case the command from this help section simply would be be:

./move_domain.sh domain.com admin newuser

ofcourse you have to create that newuser account first if that account does not exist yet. Nothing more to it.

It doesn't matter if the domain is added normally or as a domain pointer. If the domain account is empty, you could also consider deleting the domain name from the admin account and adding it again to the other hosting user.

 

[SeLLeRoNe]

I think he just createad a DNS zone from the DNS Administration page.

To create a user or simply to add a domain with the same name you need first thing remove the DNS zone, than adding the domain via DA will re-create the DNS zone automatically.

Best regards

 

[OJMadSnake]

I think he just createad a DNS zone from the DNS Administration page.

To create a user or simply to add a domain with the same name you need first thing remove the DNS zone, than adding the domain via DA will re-create the DNS zone automatically.

Best regards

You are right about the setup, sorry that wasn't clear in the initial post.

I ended up making a placeholder domain for the user (example2.com) and replicated the DNS entries here. I then deleted the DNS zone from the administration page and changed the domain to example.com, so there was only a few seconds where there was no DNS information for the domain.