: Domain name under different account than hosting I've tried to do some research on pointing a domain name to hosting that's on two separate accounts, but either I haven't found the right article.

@Alves908

With GoDaddy, your options are 'Domain Forwarding', 'Domain Pointing' and 'Addon Domains'.

In any scenario, you will need a folder to act as the domain root (you've already done this.) and the server IP of the hosting you've setup.

To Forward a domain,
If you want to forward a domain, go to Domain -> Settings -> Forwarding.

You will be prompted to follow a simple wizard, where you can pick where and how you display other content. You will probably want to use the 'Masked Forwarding' option to keep your client's URL in the address bar.

Pointing a domain is basically just manually updating the A-record.
To Point a domain to another host, edit the A-record in the DNS settings. and set the IP for '@' to your hosting IP.



With both the above methods, you will need an .htaccess file that redirects traffic from clienturl.com to clientfolder/127.0.0.1 (but your real IP.) Something like:

RewriteEngine on
RewriteCond %{HTTP_HOST} ^clienturl.com$
RewriteRule (.*) www.clienturl.com/ [R=301,L]
RewriteRule ^$ clientfolder [L]


That brings us to addon domains. If you set up a subdomain/addon domain on the hosting server, you will not have to setup an .htaccess file. You will be able to forward the client domain from their server, directly to a subdomain on your server, without having to rely on .htaccess.

Your server will handle the mapping of the subdomain to the client folder. So, clienturl.com will forward to myclient.myhostip.com, which will map to /myhost/myclient/ on your server.

hope some of this makes sense.

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