Dreamweaver, SozoDomains, DomainMonger and GoDaddy
I'm a new fan of GoDaddy. It's very clear that they put a lot of time into their management tools. The side effect of that is that some of their online help information is outdated. It's hard to follow step-by-step instructions when the UI has changed radically. All told it's not that hard to figure out, but it can be vexing.
To that end I thought I'd share what I figured out through experimentation.
GoDaddy's help will tell you that you need to edit A-Records yourself if you're going to host multiple domains. Don't bother trying to do it, you won't find the UI. Your main domain will be hosted in your root folder. Extra domains can either also be pointed at the root folder (that's the default) or can be based in a folder of your choosing (under the root folder).
I couldn't find FTP instructions for Dreamweaver, so I followed the simplest set of instructions. It was a little hard to figure out what the main settings were, so I'll break it down.
My main site's FTP info:
- Remote/Testing Server Info:
- FTP host: ftp.mainsite.com
- Host directory: (blank...no text...don't put stuff here!)
- Login/Password: the info set while configuring the main domain during 'setup'
The following settings work for sites whose DNS is managed by SozoDomains.com and DomainMonger.com:
SecondSite's FTP info:
- Remote/Testing Server Info:
- FTP host: ftp.mainsite.com
- Host directory: secondsiteRootFolder
- Login/Password: the info set while configuring the main domain during 'setup'
There's yet another configuration that works only for SozoDomains, but that does not work for DomainMonger. I'm going to save everyone the headache and not post that info here.
