Typo3 Domain Records and Bluehost (cPanel)

I Finally managed to install Typo3 onto my Bluehost account, my main problem was the lame domain management tool provided by bluehost. Here is the work around (If anyone knows a better way of doing this let me know)

1. Setup a sub-domain i.e. subdomain.yourdomain.com
2. Login into your account via ssh or putty
3. rename or delete the directory “subdomain” in public_html, this directory was created by the domain manager
4. Now create a symlink to your typo3 directory: ln -s typo3 subdomain - what this does is creates a virtual link to typo3.
5. Now make sure you have a domain record on your typo page that says subdomain.yourdomain.com

Now when somebody visits subdomain.yourdomain.com they are pointed to your typo page, this is very useful as it means that you can create as many sites as you want in one typo installation and they will all look like individual sites.

This seems to work fine for the front-end but I was having problems in the backend if I logged onto subdomain.yourdomain.com/typo3 the work around is to login from your main domain i.e. www.yourdomain.com/typo3

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