Domain Management in Direct Admin: How To Add A New Domain

In this treatise, you will learn how to add a new domain in Direct Admin. Direct admin provides easy ways for web administrators to manage their websites. Many web hosts have started switching over to direct admin from cPanel.

I have used both cPanel and Direct Admin. Having used cPanel to manage websites as an administrator for more than 7 years, I can tell that cPanel generates very many errors and makes website administration difficult. Prominent among such errors is the ‘Your IP address has changed’ error. This might be the reason why many big hosting platforms are porting to direct admin and other alternatives.

The Direct Admin interface is also beautiful and intuitive.

I will show you exactly how to add a new domain in Direct Admin, especially if this is your first time of using Direct Admin.

To add a new domain, simply login in to direct domain from your web server or imput your login credentials.

You can login directly from your web hosting platform by clicking the ‘Control Panel’ or ‘

Once you have logged in, Under the Account Management tab, click on Domain Setup

On the next page, you will be able to add or modify a domain.

Type the domain name/address you wish to add in the box provided and click ‘Create’. You can set the bandwidth the new domain should take out of your available bandwidth. You can also set the maximum disk space available to it by entering the value in the provided box or check the ‘Same as Main accout to default to the main account value.

Other options you can set tor the new domain include Secure SSL. Check this box to load the domain over SSL connection, check the CGI access to grant it CGI access and/or check the PHP access to grant it PHP access on the server.