After propagation time, anyone else who types in your subdomain online should reach your new site. The cPanel Zone Editor will automatically create an “a record” for the subdomain with an appropriate IP address. If your domain is pointed to InMotion Hosting’s nameservers, you don’t need to manually update your DNS Records when you create a subdomain. How to Setup a Subdomain on Your Nameservers A success message will appear confirming the creation of your new domain/subdomain. In our example, we used the auto-generated directory. Then deselect the “Share document root (/home/username/public_html) with domain.tld” option.Ĭlick on the Home icon to locate the directory where you want the files for this subdomain to exist.
Click on the Create A New Domain button.Click Domains under the Domains section.
The following directions will work for adding a new domain and subdomain to your cPanel account.