Pointing A Purchased Domain To An Existing Directory
It is not possible for a domain to be pointed to a folder on your own web space,
or a hostee's FTP account. The internet domain system does not work in a way to
allow this.
You may have a subdomain such as myhostee.mydomain.com but you must be
the owner of the original domain. Please see
How To Add A Sub-Domain and
Do you offer a reseller program? for
more information on allowing your hostee access to the subdomain.
It is strongly recommended that your hostee signs up with Active Web Hosting for
an account of their own. They could choose their own domain name. This is
recommended because not only does this this gives your friend full web hosting
services (including CGI server and MySQL database) for only $10 per month, you
can also earn a monthly credit on your account if
your friend mentioned your domain name in the Referred By box when signing
up.
Once a hostee has their own domain and web space, be sure that they have transferred
all of their old files to their new site before removing their files and their
directory. You may remove their files and keep their directory to use as a
redirect so that their visitors and search engines can find their new site. This
is entirely up to you. Webmasters sometimes do this as a courtesy and leave the
redirect online for at least 30 days before removing the old directory. You can
use the code below to create this redirect. Replace the highlighted areas as
needed, save it as index.html and upload it to the hostee's old directory.
Be sure all other files have been removed.
Site Moved Code:
<html>
<head>
<META HTTP-EQUIV="refresh" content="10; URL=http://domain.com">
<title>Hostee's Title Page</title></head>
<body>
This site has moved to <a href="http://domain.com">http://domain.com</a>.
Please update your bookmarks. You will be redirected to the new site in about
10 seconds. If you are not redirected, click the above link.
</body>
</html>