[OT] Opinions about On-Rev

[Jerry J]

On May 21, 2009, at 5:09 PM, Sarah Reichelt wrote:

>> I think you can; it certainly seems to allow that, but I get an error
>> message, and the addon domain is not configured, so I can't tell  
>> for sure.
>> (But then, I get pretty much the same error just trying to create  
>> an addon
>> domain with its own folder).
>>
>> What I get is:
>>>
>>> Error from park wrapper: Using nameservers with the following IPs:
>>> 208.96.10.221,66.33.206.206,66.33.216.216 Sorry, the domain is  
>>> already
>>> pointed to an IP address that does not appear to use DNS servers  
>>> associated
>>> with this server. Please transfer the domain to this servers  
>>> nameservers or
>>> have your administrator add one of its nameservers to /etc/ 
>>> ips.remotedns and
>>> make the proper A entries on that remote nameserver.
>
>
> Who do you have your domain registered with?
> I think that you have to go there FIRST and change the name servers
> there so that they now point to the on-rev name servers.
>
> It sounds as if cPanel is refusing to let you create an Add-On domain
> because it can see that that domain is already hosted elsewhere.

Yabut, it does the AddOn anyway, in spite of the complaint. Otherwise  
you wouldn't have a chance to make sure it runs OK before you repoint  
the DNS to on-rev.

For example - my home on-rev domain is jhj.on-rev.com and in that root  
is a folder named public_html. When I did the AddOn for jhjensen.com  
it complained, but also made a folder inside public_html named  
jhjensen.com . So I put my html in there, checked it at
http://www.jhj.on-rev.com/jhjensen.com to see that it worked (as it  
still does). I then changed the DNS at my registrar (which happense to  
be pairnic) and after a while,
http://www.jhjensen.com loads the new site as well. It takes a while  
for the DNS to propagate.

So:
http://www.jhj.on-rev.com/jhjensen.com
http://www.jhjensen.com
both load the same page now, but the second one pointed elsewhere  
until I changed the DNS at pairnic.

Go ahead, be brave, that error won't hurt a bit.
--Jerry Jensen