Remove sub-domain access from Addon Domain

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 https://www.markets.com

My client’s shops are https://www.clientshop1.com and https://www.clientshop2.com but as add on domains using Bluehost they appear to the user when actually using the site as https://www.markets.com/clientshop1 and https://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-subdomain-access-from-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!

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 https://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

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 https://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.

spawnie69:

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.

DrByte:

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!

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