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Multiple ONTRApages on my existing domain?

Frank Hagan

Robin asked: 

Hi, I love Ontrapages and would recommend it to anyone. It is the first of many tools attempting to make quality design of landing pages accessible to everyone, really crack this effectively.

My problem is this. I would love to create and use multiple landing pages done with Ontrapages on my existing website. The problem is that Ontrapages allows me yes to map my domain to a landing page, but the moment I do so, I lose all of my website content at the same time. That is what I read in your tech info. The only alternative is for me to keep these Ontrapages-generated landing pages at their original URLs on Ontrapages, but this does not look very professional on my site.

Is there a solution to this that I am missing?

Obviously my ideal solution would be to have the possibility to download the full landing once completed, so that I could upload it myself to my own server and place it at the URL I want. Any possibility of doing this now or in the future?

Many thanks in advance for your kind help.

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The ONTRApages Free account is limited to the ONTRAPORT domains we provide. The ONTRApages Premium account ($15 per month or $99 per year) allows you to use your own domain, but you are right, that domain is only used for the ONTRApages landing pages. If you have existing content on that domain it will "disappear" when you change the name servers to point to the ONTRAPORT servers. 

If your existing content is in a WordPress site you can use the ONTRApages plugin to host ONTRApages on that site. The plugin is the only way we approve to have your own content and an ONTRApage on the same site. 

There is a trick we no longer recommend, using a wildcard A record to create subdomains on the fly on your existing domain. We used to explain how to do this, but too many people skipped a step, or mis-configured their domain, and lost their content. It is an option is you have a DNS ninja handy to walk you through the process (and if they have never heard of a wildcard A record, they are not the ninja you are looking for). 

 

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