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How to Add a Domain to Hostgator Cpanel

http://www.joesinternetmarketing.com – In this video we has just finished changing our dns and we open up our Hostgator Cpanel to add our domain to our Hostgator account.

This video steps you through exactly how to add a new domain to your hostgator cpanel as an addon domain.

hey this is Joe from Joe’s internet marketing calm and we just changed our DNS servers our DNS name servers for a domain that we have at GoDaddy GoDaddy calm and the domain that we had changed was beginner bass player calm this is a domain that I own and we’re going to set this up as a website we just changed the name servers to point to our Hostgator account so now we’re going to go over to Hostgator and we’re going to create an add-on domain
I want to show you how to do that so here’s my Hostgator cPanel pretty typical if you have Hostgator this will look very very familiar to you and so what you want to do we’re going to kind of scroll down here and there’s a lot of different features and functions that that Hostgator gives you when you use them as web hosting but the one that we’re very interested in is this one right here under the domains section add-on domains if you click on
that we’re going to create a new domain name and the domain name if you remember if we go back over here is beginner oops beginner bass player calm and you want to enter that exactly as that is beginner bass player calm now it’s very important that you spell this exact now what I could have done is I could have just I could just come over here and copied what’s here in this field over but I’m a little picky and what that’ll do is that would paste
this in all capitals I like to prefer to have it in all lowercase so I might as well just type it in so as soon as you type that in you get a little green check mark here everything’s good and it’ll pre fill in all these other all these other fields so the sub domain FTP username by default it’s going to create a username for your new domain name is going to be the same username as your domain name you can keep that or if you want you can replace
that with a different username that’s more common or something that’s more secure it’s up to you document root and this is the this is going to be the folder this the cPanel is automatically going to create a folder called beginner bass-player calm the same as your domain name under your public underscore HTML folder so now what we want to do is we want to create a password now this password I would suggest you make it pretty secure letters
numbers and maybe even you know maybe I throw in a capital or some kind of alternate character like a dollar or % or something like that to make it a little bit more secure whatever it is but as long as you remember what it is and you don’t forget it you’re good to go just one thing you don’t want to forget what your password is so I’m going to put my password in here and I put it in again twice and then to know that I’ve typed it in exactly the
same gives me a little check mark it also gives me tells me that the strength of what it is now if you don’t want to come up with a password you can use this password generator and it’ll create a password just a very random password for you but those are often hard to remember so you know unless you want to create that and then save it then that’s fine after that just click on this add domain button wait a couple minutes and the system goes out
and basically creates the the folder structure on on your server the way it needs to it’ll set up your webserver for the new the new domain name and you’ll be good to go so there we go beginner bass-player comm has been created would you like to manage the files for this if so so here you can go right into file manager from here and you can start adding files so what we’re going to do now is we are going to check to see well actually I’m sorry
we’re going to we’re going to install WordPress next in our setting up this new website we’ve got the the add-on domain created now we’re going to go in and we’re going to set up WordPress so this is Joe from internet marketing comm Joe’s internet marketing comm and I’ll see you next time on the next video talk to you soon bye bye