Questions about Multi-Hosted Domains

[Valeriex]

This is the first time I'm doing this, so I have a few stupid questions.

I think I read somewhere that a multi-hosted domain would just have one e-mail address. How do I set up this address? Would I use the Default Address feature? Should I set up the default forwarder as my regular e-mail address, tell people to e-mail [anyname]@multihosteddomain.com, and then receive all the mail as unrouted mail?

I have a forum set up on my main domain, and I'd like to set up another one for the multi-hosted domain. My forums now are www.bandofbuggered.com/forum. Could I install another as www.bandofbuggered.com/forum2 or something, and then just link there from one of the pages on the multi-hosted domain? It doesn't appear as if I can add a forum directly to the multi-hosted domain or the subdomain.

Thanks for your help.

[Julian Muñoz]

Yes... With multihosted domains you only get all the mails to one location...

If you can't configure it on your cpanel, under Default Address, you can send a ticket and ask support to configure your account the way you want.

[Mike Andruschak]

Originally posted by Valeriex
This is the first time I'm doing this, so I have a few stupid questions.

I think I read somewhere that a multi-hosted domain would just have one e-mail address. How do I set up this address? Would I use the Default Address feature? Should I set up the default forwarder as my regular e-mail address, tell people to e-mail [anyname]@multihosteddomain.com, and then receive all the mail as unrouted mail?

You have this part mostly correct. Any and all mail TO your multihosted domain may be set (control panel>mail>default addresses) to be forwarded to ANY e-mail address. My wife has (had?) mymodelhorses.com being forwarded to her pacbell.net address.

I have a forum set up on my main domain, and I'd like to set up another one for the multi-hosted domain. My forums now are www.bandofbuggered.com/forum. Could I install another as www.bandofbuggered.com/forum2 or something, and then just link there from one of the pages on the multi-hosted domain? It doesn't appear as if I can add a forum directly to the multi-hosted domain or the subdomain.

Thanks for your help.

The multihosted domain is hosted in a sub-domain in a top-level directory of your domain.

mymodelhorses.com lives (lived) in bryer.andruschak.net; which lived in andruscahk.net\breyer.

The XMS forum will install into a top-level directory, such as andruschak.net\breyer -- which placed it in the root directory of mymodelhorses.com. It runs from an index.php which loads if you access that directory without specifying a file. If you create an index.html that will load instead and you can link to your forum's index.php.

I would direct you to mymodelhorses.com as a working example, but I got caught in a server crash and they moved my main domain to a new address -- but they neglected to have my multihosted domains follow.