Pointing External Domain at Non-domainhost Subdirectory

  • I have 2 WP installs, each in its own subdirectory, completely separate from each other. The first works fine (aijodesigns.com/blog/) because aijodesigns.com is the domain the hosting is under. Domain and hosting bought through 1and1.

    The second aijodesigns.com/astuephotography/ doesn’t work. I have pointed my GoDaddy domain (astuephotography.com) at my 1and1 hosting (and subdirectory) and the homepage works fine. astuephotography.com is now essentially the same thing as aijodesigns.com/astuephotography/ which is exactly what I was going for. Only problem is, the internal pages don’t work. It gives me a 505 internal server error.

    I don’t want the URL to be aijodesigns.com/astuephotography/ ; I want it to look like a standalone site. aijodesigns.com/astuephotography/about/ should be astuephotography.com/about

    This is what I get if I change my general settings to aijodesigns.com/astuephotography/ in the Site Address field.

    If I change it to astuephotography.com then the homepage works, but the images don’t load because the paths are incorrect. The link urls display as I would like them to, but the url gives me an internal sever error.

    I’ve tried messing with the htaccess files, but I think I am just digging myself in a deeper hole. I image this must be super simple since freelancers pay for hosting and then set their clients’ websites up in a subdirectory, so why can’t I figure this out? I’ve googled and research and I get nowhere.

    Someone suggested Multisite, but that only works on a root level install and not existing subdirectories, right? I would use multisite to set up new sites and not ones that already exist?

    Does anyone have some insight with setting up multiple standalone sites with subdirectories on the same server… I’m pulling my hair out!

    Thanks in advance and I apologize if this is confusing. It’s a lot to explain in text form.

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  • have you tried to set it up as an addon domain? You would need to house it all on the same host, but that should do the trick pretty easily. For example example.com is your main one and then you add a subdirectory of example.com/awesomeness.com when you use the addon domain feature, it will appear as awesomenss.com

    Thread Starter aijodesigns

    (@aijodesigns)

    Yes, I’ve added it on to my 1and1 hosting account and went through the whole spiel of changing the name servers, etc.

    I just checked who.is to see what it says and it has all the 1and1 nameservers.
    https://who.is/whois/astuephotography.com

    Ok. Does 1 and 1 use cpanel? Have you done the addon domain or a parked domain? Sorry, I’m not sure what else you need to do as I usually just do an addon and it works like a champ.

    Thread Starter aijodesigns

    (@aijodesigns)

    I followed this site to add astuephotography.com as an addon:
    https://faq.1and1.co.uk/domains/domain_xfers/dns_transfer/4.html

    I’m I missing a step somewhere?

    Not sure if they use cpanel, per say, but they have a really crappy/confusing interface. I’ve been using FTP to edit/add/remove/backup files.

    Do you have an example of how your htaccess files are set up? I have a feeling that’s were the issue is and I’ve copied and pasted so many things and nothing seems to help.

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