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Adding a site or a subdomain to a hosting
This guide explains how to add a site (your-site2.com) or a subdomain (xxx.your-site.com) to your existing hosting.
During this multisite / multidomain (virtual host) management, the disk space and resources of your hosting will be divided between your sites/subdomains.
Step 1: modify your hosting package
Comment: you can move directly to step 2 if you still have unused sites, which is generally the case when you start with shared or Cloud hosting as we offer 20 sites in our basic package.
- Open the Manager (manager.infomaniak.com)
- Go to Web Hosting or Cloud Server depending on your product
- Click the hosting/domain concerned
- Click Manage on the Dashboard for the relevant hosting
- Click Change offer
- Under Site, select the total number of sites or subdomains desired
- Complete the order procedure
Step 2: add a site or subdomain
- Open the Manager (manager.infomaniak.com)
- Go to Web Hosting or Cloud Server depending on your product
- Click the hosting/domain name concerned
- Go to Sites and click Add
- Select the addition of a Domain or a Subdomain
- Enter the name of the Domain (e.g., your-site2.com) or a Subdomain (e.g., xxx.your-domain.com)
- By default, the new site is added to the following directory: /sites/your-site2.com on your FTP server
- To manually define its location, click Advanced Options (above the Confirm button) and tick Manually define the location, then enter a folder name
- Under Advanced options, you can select a different PHP version from the recommended one
- Finish the procedure using the Confirm button
If it is a subdomain, or if the domain name or its DNS zone is managed by Infomaniak, the DNS entries and the existing entries can be updated automatically. Otherwise, make the necessary changes through your registrar or transfer the management of the domain name to Infomaniak: https://faq.infomaniak.com/1814
Manage/display your sites
- Open the Manager (manager.infomaniak.com)
- Go to Web Hosting or Cloud Server depending on your product
- Your different sites are displayed under Sites on the Dashboard of the hosting concerned
Delete a site or a subdomain
- Open the Manager (manager.infomaniak.com)
- Go to Web Hosting
- Click the hosting/domain name concerned
- Under Sites, click the
icon to the right of site concerned and choose Unlink
Find out more
- Configuring an FTP account limited to the folder of a subdomain or a site
- Installing/obtaining an SSL certificate
- Installing a new WordPress site
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