How to Install WordPress on Add-on Domain?

In this tutorial, we will learn about the detailed procedure to install WordPress on Add-on Domain. To know about the Addon Domain, check the blog.

To install WordPress on Add-on Domain, you must have one. Check the steps to create Add-on domain in cPanel.

Let us go through the detailed procedure to install WordPress on Add-on Domain.

• Login to your cPanel account.
• Go inside Softaculous Apps Installer.

• On the next page, select WordPress and then Install Now.

• On the next page, enter the required credentials as directed.

• In Software Setup section,
  1. Choose Protocol: Select the protocol to manage HTTPS redirection.
  2. Choose Domain: Select the add-on domain from the drop down list for which you want to install WordPress.
  3. In directory: Leave this section blank so that WordPress get installed directly on your add-on domain.

*If you leave the in directory section blank then the URL for your WordPress website would be, https://www.addondomain.com.  But if you enter the directory name, then the URL of your WordPress website would be , https://www.addondomain.com/wp.

• In Site Settings,
  1. Site Name: Enter the name of your site.
     
  2. Site Description: Enter the description of your site.
     
  3. Admin Username: Set the admin username that would be use to login to dashboard.
  4. Admin Password: Set strong password to login.
  5. Admin Email: Enter the email where all the updates related to WordPress would be received.
• Scroll down and Choose Language, Select Plugins, enter database related details in Advanced Options and then Select Theme.

•  Click over Install.

You will receive a notification when you successfully install WordPress on your Add-on Domain.

# How to Find the WordPress Installation Directory for Add-on Domain?

The path to login to WordPress website of add-on domain will appear on the confirmation page of WordPress Installation. When we install WordPress on Add-on Domain, then it got installed in the add-on domain directory and its files and directories save inside File Manager in cPanel. Follow the steps to get the WordPress files and directories of add-on domain.

• Login to cPanel.
• Go inside File Manager section.
• List of files will appear. All the files inside public_html is of main domain.

• A directory named of your add-on domain would be present. Get into it and you will find your WordPress Installation directory where all WordPress files and folders be present.

*To check the path of your add-on domain directory, get inside Add-on Domain section in cPanel.

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