The procedure of including an addon area entails the creation of the corresponding subdomain. In terms of Apache VirtualHost entries, an addon is a parked area on that subdomain.

There is no way to include an addon with out a subdomain staying developed, this is the essential principle of cPanel architecture. Yet, it is a common wish to make the inbound links – addon.maindomain.com and maindomain.com/addon unavailable.

There are two techniques to accomplish this:



1. Redirect each backlinks to a Not Located website page employing .htaccess which is to be put into the addon domain website root listing:


RewriteEngine On
RewriteCond %HTTP_HOST addon.maindomain.com$
RewriteRule ^(.*)$ "http://maindomain.com/404" [R=301,L]

Make positive to update addon and main domain names correspondingly.

2. Point subdomains addon.maindomain.com and www.addon.maindomain.com to a non-performing IP tackle, e.g., localhost (loopback tackle) 127…1 or just get rid of these DNS entries.

It can be accomplished in your cPanel account in the subsequent way:

Go to your cPanel account > Domains area > Zone Editor menu: 
Click on Deal with next to the key domain identify:


Discover A documents for the subdomain in the listing.
You can delete these 2 DNS information or edit them by clicking the Edit button. Then, Help save History:
That is it!
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