Adding new domains

[Steve D]

I tried to search around in the forums for an answer to this, but no luck. My apologies if it is in fact addressed somewhere in this forum.

Two issues:
1) Everytime a new domain is added, it becomes the default domain, with the public_html symlink reattaching itself to the new domain. This seems a bit screwy to me, so I'm wondering if others have had issues and/or workarounds for this behaviour.

2) How does a user with multiple domains go about assigning an ip address only to that domain, for ssl purposes? Or can this even be done? It seems like when the ip is assigned to the user, it then serves all of the domains of that user.

Hope some light can be shed. I really like DA, but this seems like a potential problem.

Thanks in advance,
Steve

 

[WildFyre]

1) That is the way DirectAdmin is. When a domain is created, the latest domain is the one the public_html links to. Seems prefectly normal to me. Just create links to the other domains.

2) It can be done, but that is up to your provider. You would have to either purchase and/or request an additional IP(s) and have them assigned to your account. Once that's finished, you would then have to change the domain's IP address.

 

[Steve D]

2) It can be done, but that is up to your provider. You would have to either purchase and/or request an additional IP(s) and have them assigned to your account. Once that's finished, you would then have to change the domain's IP address.

Each user can only be assigned a single IP address, though, right? I see that it could be a workaround where the user be set up on a shared IP for some domains and then have to manually change the DNS settings for the domain that needs a dedicated IP address. The new IP address can't be assigned to the user, so it'd be a matter of just remembering that the IP address is in use so that it doesn't become shared.

Is that about right?

Thanks!

 

[nobaloney]

It's a DA limitation. A user can only have one IP# assigned, either shared or owned.

Jeff

 

[Steve D]

Yeah, unfortunately that's a deal-breaker for me. I certainly wouldn't want to set up individual users for all of the domains I manage so I wouldn't make my clients do that. Granted, it's a small percentage of them, but still a need for us. I did try to think of different ways of handling it, but none are easy to deal with.

Oh well, onto testing the next control panel.

Thanks anyways, DA... I really did want it make it work.

Steve

 

[nobaloney]

Make your users resellers limited to the number of domains they need; they can set up their own users.

Jeff

 

[floyd]

Yeah, unfortunately that's a deal-breaker for me.

That seems a little silly to pay hundreds of
dollars more something that most people
will not need.

Either you set up a domain separately or a
user separately. There is not a lot of
difference. Its just as much work for
somebody either way you do it.