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cPanels - can the main domain point to a subdirectory? How?
When I started with a new shared host I used a domain name that I used elsewhere as main domain, pointing at /public_html/.
Now I want to put that domain live but not in /public_html/ but rather /public_html/nextaddon/, otherwise it looks very messy with other domain (each in its own folder) already running.
But looks like cPanel has no option to change the landing folder for the main domain.
I tried this .htaccess:
RewriteEngine On
RewriteRule ^$ /nextaddon [L]
But then site opens as nextaddon.com/nextaddon - with page not found. That isn't ideal.
What are my options here?
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You can’t reasonably but you can set document roots for addon domains to a level above public_html so they’re not accessible from sub folders of the primary domain.
In the meantime I followed this video and it worked perfectly (after some cache clearing):
He just copied the .htaccess from this page [https://www.westhost.com/knowledgebase/display/WES/Can+I+Point+My+Primary+Domain+To+A+Sub-folder] to the root .htaccess and that was it.