Remove sub-domain access from Addon Domain

[spawnie69]

Hello Everyone,
I have a Bluehost account and have setup a couple of Zen cart store for clients.
My concern is how add on domains would appear to users and search engines.


For example let’s say:
My domain is www.markets.com

My client’s shops are www.clientshop1.com and www.clientshop2.com but as add on domains using Bluehost they appear to the user when actually using the site as www.markets.com/clientshop1 and www.markets.com/clientshop2.
So it appears as sub domains even though they are add on domains.

I found out that by altering the htaccess file with some code will enable the site not to show them as sub domains.
I read people doing this worked ok, but I am not sure if it would be ok with Zen Cart.
Here is the link explaining how:
http://www.fayazmiraz.com/remove-sub...-addon-domain/

What I would like to know is if anyone tried this with a Zen cart on Bluehost successfully?
If not what would be the right approach.
Greatly appreciated as always!

Zen Cart ROCKS!

[DrByte]

If you set your HTTP_SERVER to clientshop1.com and your DIR_WS_CATALOG to / and your DIR_FS_CATALOG to public_html/clientshop1 then it should work just fine by visiting www.clientshop1.com, invisible to the visitor ... assuming the addon domains are properly configured by the hosting company.
Same with clientshop2.

No need for .htaccess junk

[spawnie69]

If you set your HTTP_SERVER to clientshop1.com and your DIR_WS_CATALOG to / and your DIR_FS_CATALOG to public_html/clientshop1 then it should work just fine by visiting www.clientshop1.com, invisible to the visitor ... assuming the addon domains are properly configured by the hosting company.
Same with clientshop2.

No need for .htaccess junk

Ok. I tried it with the following lines:

define('HTTP_SERVER', 'clientshop1.com');
define('HTTPS_SERVER', 'https://www.markets.com'); (this is my main account w/ ssl would this correct?)
define('DIR_WS_CATALOG', '/');
define('DIR_WS_HTTPS_CATALOG', '/clientshop1/');
define('DIR_FS_CATALOG', 'public_html/clientshop1');
This line used to be the following:
define('DIR_FS_CATALOG', '/home8/markets/public_html/clientshop/');

After these changes I typed clientshop1.com and got the Hello. Thank you for loading Zen Cart™. page.
I could not do anything else. I know I must of messed up something. I think it's an SSL issue? Not sure. What do you think?
Thank you.

[DrByte]

define('DIR_FS_CATALOG', 'public_html/clientshop1');
This line used to be the following:
define('DIR_FS_CATALOG', '/home8/markets/public_html/clientshop/');

No, it should be:
define('DIR_FS_CATALOG', '/home8/markets/public_html/clientshop/');

... or replace 'clientshop' with 'clientshop1' or whatever folder the store is actually in.

I didn't mean to imply removing the stuff before the "public_html" part.

[spawnie69]

No, it should be:
define('DIR_FS_CATALOG', '/home8/markets/public_html/clientshop/');

... or replace 'clientshop' with 'clientshop1' or whatever folder the store is actually in.

I didn't mean to imply removing the stuff before the "public_html" part.

Thanks so much for the help! It worked like a charm.
This may sound like a dumb question...I am sharing my ssl with my clientshops so I guess there is no way to hide my domain from the ssl pages is there?

Thanks DrByte!

[DrByte]

No. That's the way a shared certificate works.