How to create a subdomain

Subdomains can point to different sections of your website. In order to create a subdomain in your cPanel account, follow the next steps.

1. Log into cPanel on the account to add the subdomain on. Click Domainsunder theDomainssection.

2. Click the Create A New Domain button:

3. Enter the subdomain name to add in the Domain text box:

4. Deselect the “Share document root (/home/username/public_html) with “domain.tld”.” option and enter the directory where you want the files for this subdomain to exist:

5. Click the Submit button:

More details on this can be found in our documentation here: Domains

NOTE: the newly created subdomain should be available online within 5-10 minutes. However, it may take up to 30-40 minutes for the newly created record to fully propagate world-wide.

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