Siteground missing CPANEL

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Last updated by chia-yingC 4 years, 6 months ago.

Assisted by: Bobby.

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October 7, 2020 at 3:32 pm #7183073
chia-yingC	Hello WPML Support Hero, I was trying to follow through WPML tutorial to set up language subdomains. However, Siteground doesn't offer cPanel in their hosting service. They use something called "site tools". When I create a subdomain, a new public_html folder under that subdomain will be automatically created. I was unable to point language subdomains such as de.pioneersnonpareil.com to my main public_html folder because Siteground doesn't offer any domain tools for that. Siteground support wrote back with a solution using symbolic links as such but they would like me to double check with you guys: ln -s /home/foldername/www/de.pioneersnonpareil.com/public_html /home/foldername/www/pioneersnonpareil.com/public_html Would this setup work for WPML subdomain option? Thank you very much! Best wishes, Christine Wang
October 8, 2020 at 7:20 pm #7192951
Bobby WPML Supporter since 04/2015 Languages: English (English ) Timezone: America/Los_Angeles (GMT-07:00)	Hi There, I am not familiar with using symbolic links However, please review the following solution another client of Siteground described that worked for them https://wpml.org/forums/topic/siteground-host-issues-with-wpml/ Sitegeround also has a tutorial on how to add an addon domain and another on how to use a parked domain for the same folder linked from that page. hidden link NOTE another user in the past tried using symbolic links with no success https://wpml.org/forums/topic/using-a-separate-domain-in-my-environment/page/2/#post-1288971
October 14, 2020 at 3:19 pm #7228893
chia-yingC	My issue is resolved. The solution I used on Siteground is as such: 1. Create subdomains using SiteTools (when one does that, the url folders are created under /www/); issue new SSL certificates for them if necessary 2. Go to each language url folder (fr.yoursite.com) under /www/ which was created by Siteground's SiteTools when subdomain was generated, and delete the public_html folder. 3. run this command via command line for each and every language to be added: ln -s /home/this_path_depends_on_server/www/yoursite.com/public_html /home/this_path_depends_on_server/www/fr.yoursite.com Change the second argument for every language you have. (Be careful about having no slash "/" at the end of each argument) 4. Go to WPML language setting and input the subdomain URLs and save. All set. Good luck!