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Issue Add an alias to a subdomain?

Azurel

Silver Pleskian
Server operating system version
AlmaLinux 8.10
Plesk version and microupdate number
Plesk Obsidian 18.0.68#2
I have a subdomain abc.example.com and would like to create multiple aliases for it. For example:
  • abc.example.de
  • abc.example.fr
  • abc.example.es
All these aliases should point to abc.example.com. How can I configure this in Plesk?
 
You will need to add the subdomain as a normal domain (you can associate them all to the same subscription), then you can create the aliases to them. Just ignore the www part.
 
Hi, thanks for your suggestion. However, I'm concerned that adding the subdomain as a normal domain will count against my domain limit in Plesk, which I'd like to avoid. Isn't it a standard feature to set up aliases for subdomains directly? Is there a workaround to create subdomain aliases without consuming an extra domain slot? I would not have expected that something so essential would be missing in Plesk.
 
This functionality is not built-in Plesk yet. You can find an additional workaround here. There's an existing UserVoice request for it linked in the article, please consider voting for it.
 
Is this UserVoice request from 2013? It’s now 2025, and this request ranks as the 12th most requested feature, yet there’s not a single word from the team indicating that it’s even “planned.” I’m left rather speechless.

Am I getting a free license upgrade? I’m not joking here—I now have to upgrade my license because the developers haven’t managed to implement an alias for subdomains in 12 years. Ugh.
 
I don’t understand how the link is supposed to help me.
  1. According to the example, this is something completely different. I need an alias “abc.example.es” for “abc.example.com”. Not an alias for a subdomain prefix like “alias.abc.example.com”.
  2. In the “for the domain” field, you can’t select subdomains at all.
 
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