Hi all,
would anyone be able to possibly give me some guidance..
Basically, i have a 'shared hosting' account with a large internet hosting provider, and my account lets me have multiple seperate domains within this folder structure.(note: not aliased domains and not sub domains). so, my goal is to have 2 domains set up. i have already purchased
the two domain names i need:
The first domain is
the 'primary' domain
name for
the root folder(eg. www.example1.com) and
the second domain
name is set for one of its sub folders(eg. www.example2.com is set to
the folder www.example1.com/sites/music).
The problem is that when apache returns a page of
the second domain back to
the browser, apache writes
the hyperlinks as if it's a sub folder of
the first domain ( eg. www.example2.com/index.html. comes out as http://www.example1.com/sites/music/index.html).
Now, I have done some reading on this, looking though "Apache:
the definitive guide"(o'reilly), and although it was useful, couldn't really find
the answer. i'm guessing this issue is most likely an apache setup issue in http.conf, rather than an issue with
the hosting company itself (which is why im posting it here) and I have also been to
the official documentation for apache site, and i am guessing i might need to use something like
the rewritebase directive in htaccess files.. but im really not sure, im more of a java programmer guy, and have been struggling with this for a couple of days. Any guidance would be REALLY appreciated.
If it helps, my hosting company is godaddy, and my sites are hosted on linux. My problem was originally with wordpress which i reinstalled a number of times in various ways to correct
the problem, but ive just done a test with a very simple static html, and it still has
the same issue with relative urls like this:
<html>
<head></head><body><a href="images/dog.html">Pictures of Dogs</a></body>
</html>
However, it is fine if i hardcode
the urls like this:
<html>
<head></head><body><a href="http://www.example2.com/images/dog.html">Pictures of Dogs</a></body>
</html>
Thanks heaps,
Steve R
NOW FIXED
Ok,
the problem has now been fixed, and i didn't need to modify any .conf or .htaccess files.
The problem was, that when I went to install
the second application into a second domain from
the godaddy site, one of
the setup questions is that it asks you which site you want it installed to. after that it asks for
the desired folder path. However,
the problem was that
the second domain
name was already pointing to
the correct subfolder of
the primary domain. So when I started installing wordpress again and came to
the menu to select which site it was for, and it listed only
the primary domain as an option, i assumed that this was like a label of "which hosting account?", or "which primary domain will your application will be installed under?" because I already knew that in
the next step i was specifiying
the folder. In order to correct this, you must make sure that your second domain is added to your domain list so that it will be listed as an option during
the installation process. For further details please read
tystips.com/archives/52/how2-save-money-host-multiple-wordpress-blogs-on-a-single-godaddy-hosting-account/
