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I just added my second domain to my PowWeb account and one thing I discovered is that my second domain is just showing my first web site’s contents. Meaning every domain that I have on my account will redirect to my first domain. Hence, I needed a .htaccess code to assign my second domain to a subfolder on my ‘htdocs’ directory. I searched the PowWeb Forums and found useful information there.

I’ve written a .htaccess code, as advised on the forum, and saved it as ‘.htaccess’ on my home/htdocs/ directory. I needed an FTP program to upload this file because OPS‘ Filemanager does not support such type of filename.

My htaccess resembles the following piece of code:

RewriteEngine On
Options +FollowSymLinks

RewriteCond %{HTTP_HOST} second-domain-name.com
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_URI} !secondwebsite/
RewriteRule ^(.*)$ secondwebsite/$1 [L]


Codes are case sensitive otherwise the second website will give you an “Internal Server Error” message when the domain is loaded.

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