Redirect Multiple Domains

plumberg

I have my primary domain mydomain.com. mydomain.com is hosted on a cPanel server (no root access)

I have several other domains which I need to redirect to a sub-folder within mydomain.com
eg.
newdomain1.com --> mydomain.com/newdomain1
newdomain2.com --> mydomain.com/newdomain2
newdomain3.com --> mydomain.com/newdomain3
newdomain4.com --> mydomain.com/newdomain4

Question:
a. Do I need to "host" newdomainX.com on a separate web-server? I mean a separate cpanel account?
b. Can I use the addon-domain/ parked domain feature of cPanel and add each domains to mydomains.com?
c. I have a spare VPS. Can I / should i setup a web-server to host all these domains and setup redirection? Any pointers to add multiple domains together effectively?

I have around 100+ domains which I need to redirect. Any suggestions welcome.

doghouch

Well, it depends. If you want to redirect all domains (newdomainX.com), you can use your spare VPS to perform redirects with NGINX. For example (EDIT: I can't seem to remove the domain extension from the redirect):

server {
  server_name localhost
  return 301 http://mydomain.com/$http_host;
}

You could also use the addon feature which includes a redirect function, but you wouldn't be able to do a wildcard for all the domains unlike my code above.

trewq

Ask your provider about addon domains or just send them what you have above. They will tell you your options, it's easy to do in cPanel.

plumberg

Thanks. Will contact my provider

ceibaNet

using the addon domain option in cpanel should be good for a redirection like this. Just got to make sure your provider has made addon domains available to you

plumberg

Yes, add-on domains are available to me. Can someone help write a small script to automate it? I dont want to go in and add domains one at a time.. I am looking at around 100+ domains.

Thanks.