I wonder I'm doing the setup thing correctly and if someone could point me in the right direction if I'm not!

What I'm after is a setup that creates:

A site with its own domain

That uses its own folder in the master site

That has it's own databases

I've setup a domain redirect in the cpanel of the master account too that points to the subfolder.

I'm obviously doing something wrong somewhere and I've looked through the tutorials but must admit that I'm getting confused!

Many thanks

Paul

PS Have emailed you and image Edwin as I can't seem to attach it

You can NOT setup cPanel with redirect because this change the domain name received by joomla (JMS).
You have to use the cPanel "AddOn Domain" to setup correctly the domain in cPanel.
Put the "Document Root" directory with the path where your website will be deployed.

When working with domain, we recommended an architecture in the tutorial video 0.b - slide 21-24.

In general, we suggest to use the following cPanel "Addon Domain" setting
- domain = site1.com
- FTP = site1
- Document root = domains/site1.com/public_html

In JMS, create a slave site with
Site ID = site1.com
Domain = www.{site_id}
{site_id}

Deploy folder = [YOUR cPanel Home directory]/domains/{site_id}/public_html

If you are not sure of the value to put in the "deploy folder", just put the "hello.php" in the directory that you created in cPanel and run the "hello.php".
It will display the path where it is located.

Thanks Edwin

Done it

Stage one complete.....!