Hi, when I sign up for the free hosting service I can choose between a Trap17 subdomain and my own domain. I already have a domain and I want to assign a subdomain from my domain to my Trap 17 account. Is that possible?

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you mean you want to have your domain be retained where it is currently used, and simply use a subdomain of that to point to your trap17 hosting?

that could work via a redirect from your subdomain to the trap17 subdomain you will request here when you become eligible for hosting. only, your visitors will be able to view yoursubdomain.trap17.com in the browser as the URL after redirection.

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I think what he means is if he uses his domain instead of the trap17 subdomain, could he add subdomains to that. If that is the question you have then yes you can do that. So if you use the subdomain "monkey.com" you can add a subdomain for your forums to make it "forum.monkey.com" and you can have seperate FTP settings for that subdomain so if you are giving some space to a friend they can access that folder and that folder only so they can have their own little site but of course you would still be able to access it.

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this will work only if SolarX decides to move his domain with trap17. this will entail changing the nameservers of his domain to that of trap17. however, as i understand from the little info he provided so far, he has an existing domain, and just wants a subdomain of it to be assigned to his trap17 hosting space. if he decides to change the nameservers, he will have to migrate his existing site contents to trap17 -- but that would mean assigning the whole domain to trap17, not just a subdomain of it.

 

 

 

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At first thanks to you both!

serverph you are right, this is exactly what I want to do. I already thougt of just redirecting my subdomain to the Trap17 subdomain. But after redirecting, you will see the Trap17 subdomain in the adress bar of the browser instead of the orginal subdomain.
Is there any way to redirect to the Trap17 Domain without showing the Trap17 Subdomain?

It's just because I want to have consistend Domain names.

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SolarX,

You can park your domain to your Trap17 sub-domain or you can change the domain name process to have your hosting account tied to your domain--both of which are completely up to you.

When you park your domain it will not cost you anything. When you change your hosting's domain name, it will cost you 15 credits. Either way don't forget to change your nameserver of your domain control.

This topic probably was resolved due to the topic date. PM any moderator for follow up question or add to this thread.

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