Ok, been around the net and I cannot find anything saying how to do this, so I thought I would post this question to the experts here?;)

I see tons of hosts around here offering hosting plans with multiple domain hosting on them. I know many of htese are in fact using Cpanel/WHM, I have searched on their forums and they say it does not support multiple domain hosting.
SO the question is, is there a way around this? The only way we have been able to edit the config files to allow for this. Dont really want to do that. Anyone know how all these hosts are doing this? Or are they lying to merely pointing or parking the second domain to the same directory (and essentially having one site with two domain names)?

Thanks!

Create your 'master' account, and make it a 'reseller' account (a standard WHM feature). Once it is a reseller account, you can assign the amount of 'shared' resources to the master account (including number of accounts that can be created under it).

Technically, each new domain (account) that is created will have it's own username and password, but essentially you've achieved 'multiple domain hosting' all sharing the master account's resources.

When hosts offer "multiple-domain hosting", they almost always mean hosting multiple domains under one account. This is accomplished in CPanel/WHM by using the "domain parking" feature to park a domain on top of a subdomain.

'Parking' a domain is NOT multi-domain hosting. All you get with parking a domain is the abililty to see the exact same content on www.domain1.com when you go to www.domain2.com.

If you need separate content, separate Email accounts, etc. under two different domain names, the only way to do it (without messing with files as snikle suggested) is to enable the 'reseller' feature on the 'master' account, and create your additional domains (accounts) 'under' this reseller. As I said previously, this does mean you'll have a separate login for each new 'account' (domain) you create, but it does achieve what you're looking for (sharing your resources among multiple INDEPENDANT domains).

Originally posted by cgrey
'Parking' a domain is NOT multi-domain hosting. All you get with parking a domain is the abililty to see the exact same content on www.domain1.com when you go to www.domain2.com.

It is multi-domain hosting when you park it on top of a subdomain. I encourage you to try it out for yourself and see.

I don't use cpanel, so keep this in mind when I ask...

So what you do is create one domain for the client, then use the multiple subdomain feature to create (duh) multiple subdomains, and then you DNS (C NAMES) other domains to the subs of that account?

FDrive is correct.

You create a sub.domain upload your content to the sub domain and then park www.domain2.com on top of the sub. When you call up www.domain2.com you see the contents of what is in the sub domain. Don't confuse parking on a domain with parking on a sub domain.

Originally posted by Chicken
So what you do is create one domain for the client, then use the multiple subdomain feature to create (duh) multiple subdomains, and then you DNS (C NAMES) other domains to the subs of that account?

In a nutshell that's how that version works (and what we do)

DomainA.com signs up, then wants to host their other domains. User sets up subdomains
B.domainA.com
C.domainA.com
D.domainA.com

then fires us an e-mail saying which domain is to be pointed at which subdomain.

Couple of buttons presses later DomainB now points to B.domainA.com etc etc - all acting as if they were individual accounts from the outside, while retaining the ease of being sheltered under one room (so to speak)

I believe there's an option to do bulk reseller accounts, which allow domain setup within a large amount of set space (ala Splashhost, MCHost etc). I'm not expert on that though as we don't use it as a business model.