Subdomain and park domain

[nimafire]

hello. on cpanel system users can creat subdomain with their park domain.
but in directadmin we cant do it and this option (creat subdoamin) enable only for Main domain.


tnx

 

[ditto]

For me, the feature I miss the most in DirectAdmin, is real domain parking abilities. The use of Domain Pointers is limited, and does not fulfill my (my customers) needs.

What about if you created a new checkbox in Domain Pointers called "Domain Parking"? When ticked, this could create a Domain Pointer that point to a domain on a different user account created by the admin user just for that purpose. This user account could have a fully hosted subdomain or a regular domain, and this domain could be solely for the purpose of Domain Parking. This feature could then be turned on or off by the server admin in the configuration file.

Please, I don't think I am the only one whising we had domain parking in DirectAdmin.

 

[DirectAdmin Support]

Hello,

Can you clarify what you mean by:

users can creat subdomain with their park domain

I think I'm following your wording ditto, where it's just a parked domain added onto any domain type in an existing User account (full domain, subdomain, etc..).. where the parked value points to the "creators" location, in the same way, for example, a suspended account does.

Suggestions and discussion is welcome on this.

John

 

[ditto]

Also, at the same time you consider to add Domain Parking abilities, would you consider to expand the functionality for the "Site Redirection" to also let us redirect domains wich is only added to the "Domain Pointers"? At the moment we can only redirect fully hosted domains because the domain name in the field for "Local URL Path" is prefilled.

For example, I have a customer who have a domain in "Domain Pointers" wich he would like to redirect to a spesific page on another domain name, but he don't want to redirect it to the front page of this domain, but to a spesific page on that domain.

Another alternative might be to let us use "Domain Pointers" to also redirect domains to any page on another domain name.

Thank you for your feedback and for considering all these things!

(The reason we don't want to fully host these domains, is because I only let my customers fully host a small limited number of domains, so the customers then might have more domains that is not having any webpages, and so they don't want to spend all of theirs allowed numbers of fully hosted domains for these domains.)

 

[nobaloney]

Suggestions and discussion is welcome on this.

Here's what we do now, John:

We have a site on it's own IP#: http://freeparking.nobaloney.net/

When we want to park other sites pointing to that content we simply change the DNS to point to that IP#. It works.

But what I think would be best as a generic solution for DirectAdmin would be to give a reseller a park, similar to the suspended page he's got now.

Then the reseller can click on Park and the domain would be pointed to /home/RESELLER/park just as now it's pointed to /home/RESELLER/suspended when the reseller clicks on Suspend.

For me it could work exactly the same way, disabling mail, etc., just as it does for suspend, but others may want to be able to offer mail to a parked domain.

Jeff

 

[tlchost]

For example, I have a customer who have a domain in "Domain Pointers" wich he would like to redirect to a spesific page on another domain name, but he don't want to redirect it to the front page of this domain, but to a spesific page on that domain.

Another alternative might be to let us use "Domain Pointers" to also redirect domains to any page on another domain name.

Several of the registrars offer the ability to have domain1.com point to domain2.com/snaggle

The difficulty is that some customers do not use registrars who offer that service and look to us to provide it.

 

[nobaloney]

And some of us like to act as our own registrar for our clients .

Jeff

 

[tlchost]

And some of us like to act as our own registrar for our clients .
Jeff

Oh right....Since I've never been able to all things equally well, I tend not to offer the entire pig, including the oink.

 

[nobaloney]

Yeah... well the way I see it is I don't want my clients going to GoDaddy (for example) for domain registration, and maybe staying there for webhosting.

Jeff

 

[ditto]

Here we go again: I am transferring a customers domain to my server, ones the transfer is completed he want me to redirect the domain to a specific page on another domain name that he already have in his account on my DA server.

Wich way is the best to do this at the moment? Is the only way to add the new domain as a fully hosted domain in his DA account and setup a redirect with .htaccess or "Site Redirection", or is there any other way?

I am hoping to find another way to do it, so that the new domain name don't have to be a fully hosted domain in his account.

Maybe it is possible to add it as a Domain Pointer and manually do something with DNS?

Example:
http://newdomain.tld and http://www.newdomain.tld should both point to a URL like this on his existing domain: http://maindomain.tld/index.php?main_page=index&language=en

I don't think I have any other choice then to add his new domain as a fully hosted standalone domain in his account, and then setup a redirect, is that correct? Thanks!

 

[nobaloney]

That's the easiest way unless you're an experienced systems administrator. And if you are, then you've probbly figured out you can do it by making changes to your apache configuration, and then to chattr certain files immutable so they won't be managed by DirectAdmin.

I consider teaching people how to break DirectAdmin to be outside the scope of answers I give on this forum; perhaps someone else could give you details.

Jeff

 

[ditto]

Thanks. I don't want to hack the core code of DirectAdmin, so I just use a fully hosted domain and a redirect, then.

Hopefully DirectAdmin will soon give us both real domain parking and domain forwarding abilities!

 

[nobaloney]

It would be very hard to hack the core code of DirectAdmin, since it's a compiled C++ system .

Jeff

 

[ditto]

It would be very hard to hack the core code of DirectAdmin, since it's a compiled C++ system .

Of course. But I think you understood me.

 

[nimafire]

Hello,

Can you clarify what you mean by:

I think I'm following your wording ditto, where it's just a parked domain added onto any domain type in an existing User account (full domain, subdomain, etc..).. where the parked value points to the "creators" location, in the same way, for example, a suspended account does.

Suggestions and discussion is welcome on this.

John

i mean on cpanel system after user add his parkdomain forexample domain2.com

on subdomain seting he can creat something like this:
subdomain.domain2.com

but directadmin only allow users to creat subdomain with their main domain:
subdomain.domain.com

 

[nobaloney]

If you add domain2.com as a full domain, you can add subdomains for it.

Jeff