Installing WordPress on an addon domain

Where is the first site installed on the domain?

cannot get it second site to load up properly

Why? What happens?
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thanks for your quick response.
the first domain is installed in the root directory. I have downloaded wordpress and the theme ready to start the primary website when I got asked to rebuild another for a friend. My site is “businessdirectoryaust.com” with Crazy Domains and my friends site is hosted by another provider. His is “ifdaa.org”.
I thought that I would be able to addon another domain in Cpanel and then download WordPress which would then create a database. I changed the wp-config.php but I think that where the second domain is sitting is not right.I created a folder in the root called ifdaa.org at first, but that didnt work, so I shifted it down one level. It’s still not working. Not sure where to go from here. My domain is working perfectly ready for me to start building.

You need to start by creating a folder for the new site off the main domain root – something like businessdirectoryaust.com/ifdaa. Then use https://businessdirectoryaust.com/ifdaa as the site urls for the new site.

I have only built two websites, so I am really new to this.
Are you saying that I don’t have to create a new addon domain, that I can just create the site from my own domain and then later shift it to the other server.
I need to be really clear about where the folder should be: should it be under public_html called ifdaa, e.g.
then while working on the site, the domain name would be as you said above. Am I getting it straight.
Thanks

Well – ask yourself this question first – where is the new site going to end up? On your server? Or on another server? If it’s the latter, it would be waaay easier to develop the site on the server that you intend to use.

I am pretty sure that it is going to end up on my server as I am not charging anything for my hosting. This is a Volunteer organisation and I don’t charge anything myself for the building of the website. This is just to keep myself busy in my retirement.
The person who built the original site is currently hosting the domain and is being very evasive and the client doesn’t even know which company is hosting it. He doesn’t want the site to go down while it’s being rebuilt, that’s why I said that I might be able to rebuild in on my server until it’s finished.
We have access to his site via FileZilla, buts that’s the only information that he has.
Is there an easier way to do this in these circumstances.

If you intend to build and keep the site on your server, then you need to set up a folder off your web root (public_html) with an appropriate name and build the site in that sub-folder. Later on, when you have control of the name server, you can point it at the new location.

Hello Friends,

About a Year ago I set up a Site entitled “The Barn-Owl Song Book”…& it has been working very well.

About a Month ago, with the Help of a Librarian in Boulder, I attmepted to set up three more Sites…”The Shakespeare-Cervantes Code”…after a Book of mine that I would like to turn into a Movie…”The Arcadian Thirteen”…which is the Name of my weekly, Internet Newsletter read by more than 2,000 world-wide…& “The Rodeo-Arena Elephant Soccer Association”…which as a one-time Ranger & Officer in Africa I would like to set up here in the States to save the African, Forest Elephant from Extinction…nowing of the natural Aptitude of this Species for the Game of Soccer.

Alas…none of the Three have turned up yet…& the Librarian I worked with, who is quite adept at these Things has suggestedd that WordPresse, perhaps, just needs more Time.

Let me hear from you.

Regards, David Yuhas

@david Yuhas: It is impolite to interrupt another poster’s ongoing thread with a completely unrelated question of your own. It causes significant problems for the forum’s volunteers and prevents us from being able to track issues by topic. Please post your own topic.