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This is a bluehost question posted by TekDog on 10 December 2008

When I started BH with my pilot account the directory structure was rooted on public_html. When I started to add Addon Domains I rooted them to subdirectories below public_html. What i discovered was that i could access every one of the addon’s by specifying the mydomain.com/addondomain. Ouch!

So I modified the .htaccess file (as per http://helpdesk.bluehost.com/kb/inde…od_id=2&id=394) to point the pilot domain to its own folder below public_html alongside the addon domains. This is working fine now for the pilot account but I can still specify the addon directory in the URL and get to it!

How can I get around this? It acts like a redirect to the content in the root subfolder but then also acts as a reference to the public_html as the relative root?

Shouldn’t i be able to host the pilot and addon domains in separate folders under public_html and maintain independence? Or, do i have to point my root account to a bogus domain and just use the addon’s?

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