Comments on: SEO Problems When Using BlueHost for Multiple Domains

By: WP Gal

WP Gal — Thu, 05 May 2011 03:32:51 +0000

That’s a good question. I think it has to do with how BlueHost’s hosting works – additional domains on a hosting account are considered “add-on” domains, and you have one domain set as your primary domain. For example, if you want to use secure SSL hosting, this can only be done on the primary domain, not the secondary “add-on” domains. You would need a separate hosting account with the desired domain set as the primary to accomplish this, if the SSL was needed on one of the secondary domains. Basically, it’s a pain to be faced (no pain, no gain) if you want to keep your hosting costs down and host multiple domains on one account.

By: Do you know?

Do you know? — Wed, 20 Apr 2011 09:57:14 +0000

Do you know why this isn’t standard on BlueHost?

I can’t say I like the fact that I automatically get a seconddomain.domain.com…

And I toally agree on the duplicate issues.

By: Guaranteed SEO Services

Guaranteed SEO Services — Tue, 14 Sep 2010 02:43:00 +0000

correct – one of our clients uses justhost and said he’s sticking to justhost coz it’s easy

By: Ursula

Ursula — Thu, 09 Sep 2010 00:05:00 +0000

No problem – glad I was able to help!

By: Uttam B

Uttam B — Wed, 08 Sep 2010 23:27:00 +0000

Thank you very much.

Uttam

By: Ursula

Ursula — Tue, 07 Sep 2010 12:11:00 +0000

You would have a .htaccess file for each domain. Notice that your second domain has its own folder, so if you’re looking at your files via FTP, it’s likely in /public_html/subdomainaddress (where “subdomainaddress” is your second domain). This is your secondary domain’s folder, and other domains you create would also need their own .htaccess file.

Each .htaccess file located at the root folder of your domains is specific to that domain. You don’t need the above code for your primary domain, but you will need it for all secondary domains, and yes, each one will have its own .htaccess file.

Hope that answers your question!

By: Uttam B

Uttam B — Tue, 07 Sep 2010 07:13:00 +0000

I have one more query…today only i installed wp on my second domain . my question do we have two .htaccess file or only one for the two domain …

thanks
uttam

By: Uttam B

Uttam B — Sun, 05 Sep 2010 23:47:00 +0000

thank you….Sara
Uttam

By: Ursula

Ursula — Sat, 04 Sep 2010 21:14:00 +0000

Just add the lines I mentioned at the end… so:

# Use PHP5 Single php.ini as default AddHandler application/x-httpd-php5s .php


# BEGIN WordPress



RewriteEngine On

RewriteBase /

RewriteRule ^index.php$ - [L]

RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-f

RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-d

RewriteRule . /index.php [L]


# END WordPress 
RewriteEngine On

## SEO REWRITE

RewriteCond %{HTTP_HOST} !^www.YourSecondaryDomain.com RewriteRule (.*) http://www.YourSecondaryDomain.com/$1 [R=301,L]

Make sure you then upload it and replace the old file (and also change “YourSecondaryDomain.com” to your actual secondary domain). That should work for you!

By: Uttam B

Uttam B — Sat, 04 Sep 2010 08:02:00 +0000

When i opened the .htaccess file it looked like this ..where to change ?
Can you help me please

# Use PHP5 Single php.ini as default
AddHandler application/x-httpd-php5s .php

# BEGIN WordPress

RewriteEngine On
RewriteBase /
RewriteRule ^index.php$ – [L]
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-f
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-d
RewriteRule . /index.php [L]

# END WordPress