Hello, I am currently using chessoscorner.com with this service, however I have just obtained a new domain and want to use that as primary (cannot remember the exact cpanel place to go for this), and wanted to know if it's possible to re-direct chessoscorner.com to this new domain? So I basically have them both pointing to the same place.

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You could try using the manage redirects in cpanel by entering your new address into the redirect field. You could also use

and change newsite to your new address.

Good Luck
-jimmy

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I would assume that you are using the same CPanel for both the domain name as you only mentioned that you got a new domain, then you can try adding the new domain name to your Cpanel Parked domain. By adding your new domain name to parked, you can use chessoscorner.com and your new domain redirect to the same place.

However, If you have 2 Cpanel, one for chessoscorner.com and the other for your new domain, then use what Jimmy89 suggested.

Cheers

 

 

 

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I have 1 domain in use with this hosting, and another domain not in use at all (no hosting, it's fresh just got it).

I need to swap domains (use new one here and not old one), but see if I can re-direct the old one to the new one somehow (so it points to the new domain I want after swapping).

So basically 1x Hosting, 2x Domains.

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so you are linking new domain to the astahost hosting? if your registrar lets you have a single free web page, you can put the redirect script (above) onto that page and set newsite to chessoscorner.com. That will bring traffic from your new address to this hosting.

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Yeah two domains for one hosting account here.

I tried using parked domains before but it kept failing, even though 3rd party whois records indicate the new namer server changes, it looks like my cPanel cannot see this yet for some reason.


EDIT:

I keep getting this error:

"Sorry, the domain is already pointed to an IP address that does not appear to use DNS servers associated with this server. Please transfer the domain to this servers nameservers or have your administrator add one of its nameservers to /etc/ip.remotedns and make the proper A entries on that remote nameserver."

Though I already have input the exact nameservers chessoscorner.com has and it's the exact same registrar as well, and also as I said third party domain whois checks indicate the name servers are what I set them as (so it's visible other than just in my registrars account).

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just shove chessoscorner.com on another host and make it redirect to your new domain.

host your new domain here, jusy get a domain change, their 10 credits or 15 or soemthing.

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I just tried Parking the domain a few minutes ago and it was successful, but it still doesn't lead anywhere.

It just goes to the domain registrars default page for the domain (should it not point to my actual site now? like chessoscorner.com does).

I can't see any other options or features to set it as the default, or at least make them both accessible to the same content.

Unless this is another thing like the DNS that takes time before it's fully working?

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You will need to wait a day or two, and after that the domain will point to your public_html folder.

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