{"id":988,"date":"2010-11-24T14:49:34","date_gmt":"2010-11-24T22:49:34","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.henselhosting.com\/?p=988"},"modified":"2021-09-30T03:13:11","modified_gmt":"2021-09-30T10:13:11","slug":"add-subdomains-via-customer-panel","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.henselhosting.com\/blog\/add-subdomains-via-customer-panel\/","title":{"rendered":"Add subdomains via customer panel"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>We are thrilled to announce subdomain functionality in the customer panel!!<br \/>\n<em>Call us crazy to be thrilled about it, but hey, we&#8217;re geeks!<\/em><\/p>\n<p>A subdomain is for example &#8220;<strong>blog<\/strong>&#8221; in the URL <strong>blog<\/strong>.example.org<\/p>\n<p>I personally use subdomains mainly to do the webdevelopment for a new website, for example I would develop the new website on <strong>www2<\/strong>.example.org (note the &#8220;2&#8221;) &#8211; It would allow development on the same server as where I will deploy the new website and allows other people to check on the progress. Consider adding a .htaccess that restricts access to it, so it&#8217;s not available to search engines and other people that don&#8217;t have the password.<\/p>\n<p>Other use would be for example be a blog, that you did not want to host on the same domain because you already have a website on it. I would consider running it on the regular\u00a0<strong>www<\/strong> or in a subdirectory if possible, since it would add (search engine) &#8220;value\/rank&#8221; to the domain. In essence a subdomain is a separate entity.<\/p>\n<p><object width=\"480\" height=\"385\"><param name=\"movie\" value=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/v\/DhtgiSQ3NSA?fs=1&amp;hl=en_US\"><\/param><param name=\"allowFullScreen\" value=\"true\"><\/param><param name=\"allowscriptaccess\" value=\"always\"><\/param><embed src=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/v\/DhtgiSQ3NSA?fs=1&amp;hl=en_US\" type=\"application\/x-shockwave-flash\" allowscriptaccess=\"always\" allowfullscreen=\"true\" width=\"480\" height=\"385\"><\/embed><\/object><\/p>\n<p><strong>To add a subdomain:<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>1. Login to the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.managedomain.nl\/\">customer panel<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>2. Select a domain from your list<\/p>\n<p>3. Select subdomains from the main menu:<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-992\" title=\"subdomains-option-in-main-menu\" src=\"http:\/\/www.henselhosting.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/subdomains-option-in-main-menu.png\" alt=\"subdomains-option-in-main-menu\" width=\"433\" height=\"151\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.henselhosting.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/subdomains-option-in-main-menu.png 433w, https:\/\/www.henselhosting.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/subdomains-option-in-main-menu-300x104.png 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 433px) 100vw, 433px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>4. Enter the name of the subdomain in the textbox and click &#8220;Install&#8221;<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-991\" title=\"create-subdomain\" src=\"http:\/\/www.henselhosting.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/create-subdomain.png\" alt=\"create-subdomain\" width=\"589\" height=\"225\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.henselhosting.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/create-subdomain.png 842w, https:\/\/www.henselhosting.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/create-subdomain-300x114.png 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 589px) 100vw, 589px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>5. Please allow a minute or less for the installation to finish&#8230; And then you&#8217;ll see it in the list at the bottom with status &#8220;Finished&#8221;<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-990\" title=\"after-subdomain-has-been-created\" src=\"http:\/\/www.henselhosting.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/after-subdomain-has-been-created.png\" alt=\"after-subdomain-has-been-created\" width=\"603\" height=\"204\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.henselhosting.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/after-subdomain-has-been-created.png 862w, https:\/\/www.henselhosting.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/after-subdomain-has-been-created-300x101.png 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 603px) 100vw, 603px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>6. You are done!<\/p>\n<p>If you want, you can go to the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.henselhosting.com\/wordpress-one-click-installer\/\">WordPress One-Click-Installer<\/a> in the main menu to install a <a href=\"http:\/\/wordpress.org\/\">WordPress<\/a> blog on the subdomain you have just created, simply select the subdomain from the dropdown list (as seen below).<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-989\" title=\"subdomain-in-one-click-installer\" src=\"http:\/\/www.henselhosting.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/subdomain-in-one-click-installer.png\" alt=\"subdomain-in-one-click-installer\" width=\"634\" height=\"164\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.henselhosting.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/subdomain-in-one-click-installer.png 906w, https:\/\/www.henselhosting.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/subdomain-in-one-click-installer-300x77.png 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 634px) 100vw, 634px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>As many of you know, you could always ask our support to create a subdomain for you, but now you can do it within a minute. It was the most requested feature, so we hope you like it!<\/p>\n<p><strong>If you want to request another feature, please log in to the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.managedomain.nl\/\">customer panel<\/a> and click the red feedback tab on the side. As always, we highly appreciate your feedback!!<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>We are thrilled to announce subdomain functionality in the customer panel!! Call us crazy to be thrilled about it, but hey, we&#8217;re geeks! A subdomain is for example &#8220;blog&#8221; in the URL blog.example.org I personally use subdomains mainly to do the webdevelopment for a new website, for example I would develop the new website on&hellip; <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.henselhosting.com\/blog\/add-subdomains-via-customer-panel\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Add subdomains via customer panel<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5,26,4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-988","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-blog","category-guides","category-support","entry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.henselhosting.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/988","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.henselhosting.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.henselhosting.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.henselhosting.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.henselhosting.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=988"}],"version-history":[{"count":8,"href":"https:\/\/www.henselhosting.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/988\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3522,"href":"https:\/\/www.henselhosting.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/988\/revisions\/3522"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.henselhosting.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=988"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.henselhosting.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=988"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.henselhosting.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=988"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}