Since this is something we may encounter while being hosted here I thought I'd touch the subject

First of all this tutorial/how to is written for those who have purchased a domain name through a registrar Depending on how your registrar works, you should be able to log into your account and point the domain to astahost's nameservers.

Nameserver 1: ns1.astahost.com
Nameserver 2: ns2.astahost.com

Now that that's done, you're ready to change a few things in your astahost cPanel. So log into your cPanel using http://your_astahost_subdomain.astahost.com/cPanel/

Then you go to Site Management -> Parked Domains



Then you of course get the Parked Domain screen. Here you have to "add" the domain. Mind you when adding the domain, don't type the www.



After you did this, it could take a lil while for the DNS servers to catch up (yeah, I think they're too slow LOL) and then you can use your new address

If you also want to add subdomains, it's fairly simple as well. I do wonder how they did this without cPanel. Anyhow, since you're still in cPanel (click on home in the top right corner OR click "back" which is just below your newly added domain) you simply go to Site Management -> Subdomains. cPanel will display your_domain.astahost.com in the drop down box, but if you take a look in that wee box, you should see your new domain there

Just select your domain and type whatever you want as subdomain.
eg. You want blog.abcdef.com as subdomain. You select abcdef.com from the drop down box and then type blog in the text box.

This will automatically create a directory with the name of your subdomain (eg. your subdomain is blog.abcdef.com then the directory will be blog) in your public_html folder So make sure that when you upload files there, you don't mix the folders up.

I know that to some this will seem completely redundant, but I know I had to ask when I set my domain up. I didn't wanna mess things up, so I can imagine some others may have the same issues

Thanks moonwitch, just changed the settings .I guess it will take a while before it will work.

Thanks again...

good tut,
I coulda Figured it out by my self because I work with CpanelX all the time, but its good for the n00bs out there that this is one of their first websites!
I wonder something... Is this just a moded version of the few thousand dollar software cpanel???
well... Im j/w,
Thanks for the tut it could be useful.

It will only take the time that it takes for your domain name changes to propergate. Its usually I find only a few hours.