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Categories: Domains
How to Park a Domain on an Addon Domain
A parked domain is an additional domain hosted on your hosting account that displays the same website content as your main domain.
To park a domain on an addon domain in cPanel, please follow the steps below.
- Log in to cPanel.
- In the Domains section, click the Domains icon.

- Click the Create a New Domain button.

- Enter the domain name you want to park on top of your addon domain in the Domain field.

- Uncheck the Share document root (/home/cpaneluser...). checkbox.
Note: The Document root and Subdomain fields are automatically populated.
- In the Document Root field, erase everything and enter the document root of the addon domain on which you are parking the domain.

- Click Submit.
Congratulations! Your domain will now be parked on your addon domain.
Domain already exists error
Error from domain wrapper: Domain already exists; it was not added.: example.domain.com
This error can occur when trying to park a domain on an addon domain and could be due to one of two reasons:
- The domain being added already exists. To correct this, you must delete the domain from your addon domains, parked domains, or subdomains before proceeding.
- The subdomain being created already exists. When this happens, you can manually change the subdomain that cPanel automatically generates for your addon domain.
For example, if you are trying to park example.com on example.com.au, cPanel will autofill the Subdomain field with the 'example,' which may already exist. Change this value to a new variation, like 'exampleau.'
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