: Several domains pointing to one hosting but keeping separate URLs What I'm trying to do is a bit complicated and not sure if possible. Here it goes: I have one main domain "maindomain.com"

@Deb1703797

This is what worked:

1) I pointed (DNS) each domain (location1.com, location2.com...) to where maindomain.com is hosted.

2) In the hosting plan I added each domain as PARKED DOMAIN.

3) In the .htaccess I had to define each domain as follows:

# location1.com
# -------------
RewriteCond %{HTTP_HOST} ^www.location1.com
RewriteRule ^$ index.php?loc_id=1 [L]
RewriteRule ^home$ index.php?loc_id=1&sect_id=1 [L]
# ...and so on for any other subsection

# location2.com
# -------------
RewriteCond %{HTTP_HOST} ^www.location2.com
RewriteRule ^$ index.php?loc_id=2 [L]
RewriteRule ^home$ index.php?loc_id=2&sect_id=1 [L]
# ...and so on for any other subsection

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@Welton855

I hope I'm understanding this correctly. But it sounds likes you want to run three domains (maindomain.com, location1.com, location2.com, and location3.com) on a single web server and have each one point to a particular URL or folder on the web server. If so, you can do this with virtual hosts and the Nginx web server. A virtual host file describes a single domain and where the web server can find the files to be served. You can have multiple virtual host files, each one different from the others. When Nginx receives a request for "location1.com" it will load the "location1.com" virtual host and then point the requester to the right spot. Same for the other virtual hosts.

Nginx

Virtual host configuration files are stored in the '/etc/nginx/sites-available/default /etc/nginx/sites-available' directory. You will need to create four hosts files to make this work:

/etc/nginx/sites-available/default/etc/nginx/sites-available/maindomain.com
/etc/nginx/sites-available/default/etc/nginx/sites-available/location1.com
/etc/nginx/sites-available/default/etc/nginx/sites-available/location2.com
/etc/nginx/sites-available/default/etc/nginx/sites-available/location3.com


Virtual Host File

Configuring a host file is super easy too.

server {
listen 80; ## listen for ipv4; this line is default and implied #listen [::]:80 default ipv6only=on; ## listen for ipv6

# Make site accessible from maindomain.com
server_name maindomain.com;

# Location of folder to serve files from
root /var/www/maindomain.com;
index index.html index.htm;

# Location of log files
access_log /var/log/nginx/maindomain.com.access_log;
error_log /var/log/nginx/maindomain.com.error_log;


I hope this helps!

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