: Shared Hosting Plans With Cpanel Duplicating Websites On Subdomains I have a shared hosting plan at one of the biggest hosting company. I host there a 3 sites. Today I just discovered that

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I assume you are using cPanel's Addon domains? These indeed must point to a subdomain.


it's a default behavior for shared hosting with Cpanel


Yes, it's default behaviour.


Do you think Google wont index the subdomains until I don't link them, therefore it's not a problem?


If you never link to the subdomain then it's unlikely that Google will index it - but it is possible. (But even if Google did index it, whether it would rank higher than the Addon domain is another matter.)


the only way to avoid this is upgrading to a VPS


No, it's not the only way. In fact, it's relatively trivial to 301 redirect the subdomain to the Addon domain using .htaccess on Apache (per-directory Apache config file). This will resolve any possibility of the subdomain being indexed. However, (shared) hosting support rarely deal with .htaccess issues/solutions.

In the .htaccess file in the root of the Addon domain (often a subdirectory of the main domain's document root, when the subdomain is configured as a subdirectory - but this isn't necessarily the case), try the following:

RewriteEngine On
RewriteCond %{HTTP_HOST} ^(.+).example.com [NC]
RewriteRule (.*) www.%1.com/ [R=301,L]


Where example.com is your main domain. Include/omit the www subdomain in the substitution as required.

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