I'm (painfully) green to website design, so please go easy . I've been asked to help sort out a problem in work with a site and am looking for any advice. At the moment a client has a site with 2 domains pointing to it (.ie and .co.uk). I've checked on whois and the files seem to be with the same hosting company so I'm guessing as it's the same site both domains are pointing to identical files in one location.

 

Now the site will split into a .ie version and .co.uk version. What would be the standard way of approaching this? I'll get the login details for the hosted files tomorrow. Will I have to create an alternate index file in another folder and relink the domain to this? Does this process of linking have a name (DNS?)? I imagine this would be done through the control panel of the hosting company (or does the use of a domain require a key/password as well).

 

Sorry for the vague and rambling nature of this post. I'm trying to get my head around lots of different concepts.

 

thanks

The DNS numbers are to point the domain names held by the domain name company to the hosting service and these shouldn't change.

 

All the changes should be within the hosting service. To make life simple I would copy all the files and folders/directories into a new sub-directory in the hosting service and then use a menu to point the other domain to it and leave the original files with the first domain.

 

Then you will have separate file systems and can edit one without affecting the other. If you try to have common directories, perhaps for images, you will soon get confused.