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Step By Step Guide to Create a Subdomain in cPanel

Step By Step Guide to Create a Subdomain in cPanel

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You can create a webpage individually for your contact, blog and article as separate website under your main website in cPanel. Just create a subdomain for your main website and upload the content.

Let’s guide you how to create a subdomain in cPanel in this article.

 

What is a Subdomain?

A subdomain is a domain name that is followed by the main domain. For Example: Seekahost.com is a domain and blog.seekahost.com is a subdomain.

How to Create a Subdomain in cPanel?

In cPanel it is very simple and easy steps to create the subdomain. Just follow the below steps to create a subdomain in your account.

  • Login to your cPanel with your Account Details.
  • After login, you will see an interface like below. Sometimes it may vary just because of different themes.

Cpanel interface

  • In search, type “domains“, then you will get the results as shown below.

Domains section

Create a new domain

  • Just click the “Create a New Domain” and you will see an option as the below image. There enter your subdomain name in the provided box and just make a click inside the document root text box. For example: I have used the domain wealthystreet.com and created the subdomain “demo”.

Creating subdomain

Just follow the below steps to install WordPress and Use the subdomain.

  • Go to cPanel, and search for Softaculous.
  • Click on the Softaculous under software.
  • In Softaculous, go to WordPress installation. For more refer step by step guide to make use of a click installer.
  • Choose your subdomain and provide the needed details to install WordPress.

WordPress Install

  • Click on Submit. Once after the installation, your subdomain is ready to design and use.
  • To check, go to cPanel and click on File Manager as shown below.

file manager option

  • In Filemanager, Click on public_html.
  • Here you will see a folder in the name of your subdomain as shown in the below image.

sub domain files

  • Finally, you have created a subdomain and it is ready to use it.

For more, Visit -> seekahost.com/blog