[Solved] Add Domain

[papasenpai]

Hello,
Could you please add the domain senpai.wtf to my papasenpai account?

[wolstech]

Domain added. Please be sure to configure DNS by either using our name servers (ns1.heliohost.org and ns2.heliohost.org) or by using A and AAAA records pointed to the IPs shown in Plesk.

The domain may take up to 2 hours to start working.

[papasenpai]

Thank you very much!

[papasenpai]

Hello,

I apologize in advance, as this is all still pretty new to me.
When I requested to add the domain senpai.wtf to my papasenpai account, what I was hoping to achieve was for my main site (papasenpai.heliohost.us) to simply use the new domain instead.

It seems like senpai.wtf was set up as a completely separate site. I think I misunderstood what I needed to request — I believe I actually meant to add an alias, although I’m still not 100% certain. What would you recommend in this situation? I just want to make sure I'm setting it up properly and not causing any extra confusion.

Thanks for your help,
Troy

[KazVee]

No one is born knowing about any of this stuff, and it's easy to get a little confused when things are new. 🙂 To make sure we set things up as you want them, could you please give us a little more info on the below:

1. What do you want to happen when someone goes to the papasenpai.heliohost.us website? If you want them to see the exact same thing as you have on senpai.wtf, because you are using the exact same single set of files for both web addresses, then this means you'd want an alias.
2. If you don't even want to use the web address papasenpai.heliohost.us at all anymore, and you just want people to visit senpai.wtf, then what you'll want us for us to change your main domain (papasenpai.heliohost.us) to be senpai.wtf. In this case, the papasenpai.heliohost.us address will no longer exist, and visitors will get a Site Not Found. You would only have a folder inside Plesk to put files for your senpai.wtf website. 
3. Right now, you have papasenpai.heliohost.us as your main domain, and senpai.wtf as your addon domain. If you wanted to, you could leave things like this. (You can have up to 10 domains on an account, so having these 2 is no trouble.) The current setup is that both your sites need their own set of files. So this is good if you want to make 2 completely different sites, but not great if you want visitors to see the exact same thing, since your files would need to be in 2 places (and this is the problem that aliases will solve!)

Since you have a custom domain, I feel it's more likely you'd only want to share the senpai.wtf address for your site, so I suspect what you want is a main domain change, but please let us know. Some users (including myself) use the free heliohost domain as a testing site to try new things, and then also have a custom domain as an addon domain, where we keep the pages we want to show off on the web address we share with others, like the setup you have now.

[papasenpai]

Hi,

Thank you so much for the detailed response. Now that I understand it better, I’d like to keep things as they are: I’ll use the free HelioHost domain as my test site, and I’ll give people the new custom domain. I really appreciate you taking the time to help me!

Thanks,
Troy

[KazVee]

You're very welcome!