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Can I connect 2 domains for one website?

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Can I connect 2 domains for one website?

Pointing two URLs to the same website is a good way to direct traffic to your site from several different domain names. You can accomplish this in two ways: either redirect one of the URLs to your primary domain, or create an alias for one of the URLs. The alias would point that domain towards your primary domain.

Can you point 2 domains to the same IP?

Yes, this is an extremely common practice. It is called a Shared Web Hosting: In name-based virtual hosting, also called shared IP hosting, the virtual hosts serve multiple hostnames on a single machine with a single IP address.

Can a server be part of 2 domains?

Answers. Hi, A Windows machine can only be member of one single Active Directory domain at a given time.

Can one IP have multiple DNS?

Yes it can. A hostname is converted to a ip adress, there is no problem to having multiple dns names for a single address. If this is a webserver, the http request contains the hostname, and the webserver knows where to process the request.

Can a server have two hostnames?

You need to be clear on what you mean by two hostnames. If you mean two physical boxes with the same IP address the answer is typically no. A case where you would is if serverA and serverB are working as an active-passive cluster then you would have each server have two addresses a piece.

How do I setup multiple domains on one server?

Configure Virtual Host in Apache to host multiple domains

  1. Login into Apache HTTP Server.
  2. Go to the apache conf location. ( in default installation – you will find it here /etc/httpd/conf/httpd.conf)
  3. Take a backup of httpd.conf file.
  4. Create a VirtualHost container like below I have done for two domains.

Should I have multiple domains?

By not owning multiple domains, you could be costing your business traffic and customers and leaving your brand vulnerable to the competition. One of the most important reasons to purchase more than one domain is to protect against user error.

Is it legal to buy up domain names?

Cybersquatting, the practice of buying up a domain in order to profit from a trademarked name, is prohibited under the 1999 Anticybersquatting Consumer Protection Act as well as a set of international guidelines called the Uniform Domain-Name Dispute-Resolution Policy.