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Asked: 2026-06-12T11:43:06+00:00

I don’t know what is the exact term for this, so my title could

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I don’t know what is the exact term for this, so my title could be incorrect.

Basically what I what to do is to write a PHP script that has an input field:

Domain Name: <input type='text' name='dname' id='dname' value='http://example.com' />
<input type='submit' name='addname' value='Add A Domain' />

When user type their own domain into the text field and press submit, the script will automatically make a directory, copy some PHP scripts there and map the domain name to there. (The domain name is pointing to our server, of course.)

I have already figured out the mkdir() and copy() part, but I couldn’t figure out the mapping part. How to add an entry to map http://example.com to /home/user/public_html/copy1/ automatically, using PHP?

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  1. Editorial Team

    It is over 10 months now, so I’ll just suggest what I have found.

    While writing directly to httpd.conf seems the only way, but recently our site change the server. It has cause us so much trouble in those file / folder permission, and the hosting company refuse to help us due to security concern.

    So I have a second look and discovered I am using CPanel for hosting, I can certainly use Addon Domain feature to create and add in new domains.

    But it has its limits. Since it is an addon domain, we can no longer limit the bandwidth and disk usage per domain. Everything is shared. But that doesn’t matter to us anyway.

    So far it works. You can do it by either using the CPanel API library available on the official cpanel website, or you can use the direct URL request way to create the domain. Since we are making a new wordpress install, we create a new database as well.

    http://{username}:{password}@{mysite.com}:2082/frontend/x3/sql/addb.html?db={dbname}
http://{username}:{password}@{mysite.com}:2082/frontend/x3/sql/adduser.html?user={dbuser}&pass={dbpass}
http://{username}:{password}@{mysite.com}:2082/frontend/x3/sql/addusertodb.html?db={dbname}&user={dbuser}&ALL=ALL
http://{username}:{password}@{mysite.com}:2082/frontend/x3/addon/doadddomain.html?domain={newsite.com}&user={ftp_user}&dir={ftp_dir}&pass={ftp_pass}&pass2={ftp_pass}

    It doesn’t have to be wordpress. You can use this to install joomla, drupal, phpbb or even you custom script.

    Hope it helps anyone who is reading this. Thanks.

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