Multiple site publishing

Publishing second and third sites to same hosting package

[Sunnydale]

I created a website about a year ago using Frontpage 2002. I have just created another 2 sites and upgraded my hosting package to host all 3 sites. With just one site I was told to publish to [mydomain.co.uk...] and then with the additional sites to [mydomain.co.uk...] when this didn't work I was told to publish to www.mysite.com direct but this doesn't seem to work either.

Can anyone tell me the correct way to publish my additional sites as I seem unable to get any further info from my web host.

[sjthomas]

It really depends on what process your host/register use. If, like many hosts out there they use the excellent cpanel then it is simply the case of using the addon domain feature. If this is the case you should edit the details for the domains so that they point to the Name Servers of your web host. This will be something like ns1.myhostingcompany.com, I would recommend using more than one nameserver and certain TLD's enforce 2 o rmore. Then give it a few hours and use the addon domains option in CPanel. This will create a folder in the root of your first domain so for example: [firstdomain.com...]
You'll be the only person who sees this as users will just see www.seconddomain.com. You can also then set up your email addresses etc. (it takes around 48 hours for DND changes to propogate fully usually)
If your host does not use CPanel then it will be entirely their system, it may involve pointing your domain to the nameservers they provide you with or simply creating a folder under your original domain and redirecting the domain to that location. The only problem with redirection is that you can't use email for that domain unless your register allows it and also search engines such as google treat redirects suspiciously.

Hope that helps you out and arms you with a little more info to question your webhost with.