need help redirecting an addon domain to hostgator hosting

[bobbytoat]

Hi,

I have a hosting with hostgator. Decided to offer free hosting to a friend, he bought a cheap domain from name.com ($5.99 for a dot com, what a deal!)

I have added that domain as an addon domain but having trouble redirecting his domain to a subdomain I created for him. Anyone mind giving me tips on how to solve this problem?

Usually do I need to change the nameservers of the domain only or do I also have to change settings in the DNS management?

[Bloggeries]

What package are you with with hostgator? You should be able to just make another account of if you have the $7.95 package.

[bobbytoat]

I am using baby plan, and just created an addon domain for him (on a subdomain folder), is it not supposed to be done this way for 2nd and subsequent domains?

[Bloggeries]

On baby plan I'm pretty sure you have 1 domain. That's it. That's all. Subdomains are different.

blah.bloggeries.com is a sub domain. I wouldn't point abc.com to blah.bloggeries.com if that makes sense

[rjleaman]

While you're talking about this - I've got a related question (but for the next-size-up hostgator acct, whatever the heck they call it - one that allows lots of add-on domains, anyway): once you point the new domain's nameservers at Hostgator acct, do you have to wait for it to resolve before setting up the add-on domain via cPanel, or can you do it straightaway? Maybe a dumb question - but it's been a while, I can't remember, and their support doc's a bit unclear on that...

[PaulR]

Originally Posted by rjleaman

While you're talking about this - I've got a related question (but for the next-size-up hostgator acct, whatever the heck they call it - one that allows lots of add-on domains, anyway): once you point the new domain's nameservers at Hostgator acct, do you have to wait for it to resolve before setting up the add-on domain via cPanel, or can you do it straightaway? Maybe a dumb question - but it's been a while, I can't remember, and their support doc's a bit unclear on that...

You should be able to set it up right away, it may not work until the domain fully resolves itself.

[rjleaman]

Dandy! As long as the add-on gets setup promptly, the actual propagation can take its sweet time... Thanks, PaulR.