How do I set up a separate website for each of my domains on a single hosting account? .: Netfirms 24/7 Support

You may set up a separate website for each of your domain names even if the domains reside on a single Netfirms hosting account:

A. Add Your Domain To Your Netfirms Hosting Account

If you require a new Domain Name:

Login to the Netfirms Members Control Panel at https://controlpanel.netfirms.com
Click Domains
Click Domains
Click Add
In the New Domain tab, enter the domain you wish to register
Click Search
Choose a Registation Term and click Continue
Review your Order Summary
Enter your billing information and credit card information
(Optional) Update your billing profile
Click Order

NOTE: Advantage and Business Hosting account owners are entitled to 2 or 5 free domains respectively.

Once our Billing Department has completed the approval of your new order, you will be able to register an additional domain (or initiate a registrar transfer) for free from within the Netfirms Control Panel. New orders are typically reviewed/approved within 24-48 hours.

If you already own your Domain Name:

Click Domains

Click Domains

Click the Transfer tab

Registrar Transfer

If your domain is currently being billed through a different company, you may do a registrar transfer of the domain to take advantage of Netfirms' lowest domain pricing. Simply enter your domain name to the Registrar Transfer section.

DNS Transfer

If your domain is currently being billed through a different company, you may do a registrar transfer of the domain to take advantage of Netfirms lowest domain pricing by simply entering your domain name to the Registar Transfer section.

Once you have initiated a transfer process you will need to ensure that the Name Server information associated with your Domain Name so it is hosted at Netfirms.

The Netfirms nameservers are:

Primary Name Server:
ns1.netfirms.com

Secondary Name Server:
ns2.netfirms.com

Please also refer to Updating Nameservers to point to Netfirms for specific instructions on how to update your nameservers through your domain registrar.

Note: It typically takes 24-72 hours for domains to be transferred by your domain registrar.

If you have multiple domains on your Netfirms hosting account and wish to forward each domain to their own website, click here for step-by-step instructions.

B. Configure Your Domain
You can configure which domain name to display in the web broswer address bar after adding a new domain name to your account. This functionality is also called Domain Masking and is commonly used to host multiple websites within a single account.

Create a directory in your webspace for each Domain Name
Login to the Netfirms Members Control Panel at https://controlpanel.netfirms.com
Click Domains
Choose Domains
For the domain you wish to configure, click the plus sign towards the left of the Domain Name
In the Source tab, enter the Home Directory or the Forwarding URL

Home Directory
If you type in a relative path, the pointer domain in the browser will display the content for that location of your web directory. The domain you typed into the browser is the domain name visible in the browser address bar.

Example of a relative path (note the required trailing slash in the example below):

/myotherdomain.com/

For domain masking or cloaking options, click here.

Forwarding URL
If you type in an absolute path in the Forwarding URL box, the domain will redirect to that URL, and display that name in the browser address bar.

Example of an absolute path: http://www.anywebsiteyouwish.com

HINT: If you wish to point to a specific file, you must rename your file to index.htm, index.html, or index.php and place the file into a folder.

NOTE: When forwarding a folder, the folder name must not contain any illegal characters (eg. underscores are not permitted).

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