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How do I set up an addon domain?

There are three fields cpanel asks for when creating an addon domain:

New Domain Name - You will put in the newdomain.com do not put www in the name!
Username/directory/subdomain Name - This will be the folder cpanel creates in your main accounts ftp. MAKE SURE that the name you give it doesn't already have a folder. Example... If you want to give it the username chris. You cannot have a folder in your account named chris already. If you do and still try creating the username for the addon domain to be chris you will mess a lot of things up!!!
Password - fill in any password you want here.

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It creates it as a subdomain by creating the folder within your main sites ftp. Please ignore...

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