Can I run my homepage off of a sub directory of a main site or subdomain

  • leonpyoder

    (@leonpyoder)


    15 years, 2 months ago

    I work for a branch of a company that wants to start a blog, and link it to their homepage. The homepage for their branch is for example: http://www.sports.example.com. What I want to know is can I run worpress off of this subdomain, sports, and have the blog homepage be a directory of this domain. Like http://www.sports.example.com/sportsblog. So I would be using the subdomain “sports” to set up our main website, and to run a blog called “sportsblog”. Or do you have to have the wordpress installed directly into the subdomain? I read that you can intall wordpress into its own directory and still have it power the site root. But this is not what I want. I want worpress to power only one component of the main site, and have its hompage as the directory that wordpress is installed in. I want the blog to be able to exist independently too, and be able to be found b y search engines aside from the main site. Does this make sense…is it possible? This is a distinction right…or am I making this harder than it is? I just want to know if I have to create a whole new subdomain to run the blog, or can I run it from a subdirectory of the subdomain and domain name, and have independent control over the FTP files and be able to, for example use Drupal for the main site and WordPress for the blog. I’m sorry but this is all new to me.

    Thanks for your help.

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  • figaro

    (@figaro)

    15 years, 2 months ago

    I think you are making it harder that it is…Yes, you can run wordpress independently in it’s own subdirectory and do whatever you want with the rest of the site.

    Saurus

    (@saurus)

    15 years, 2 months ago

    “I think you are making it harder that it is…Yes, you can run wordpress independently in it’s own subdirectory and do whatever you want with the rest of the site.”

    Definitely so. Installing WP to a simple /blog folder makes the blog completely separate from the company website. There still exists the index.html that takes visitors to the main site. Someone wanting to go to the blog would simply add that directory to the url for the website and voila – they arrive at the blog. You do not need to name the folder “sportsblog”, simple /blog will suffice. I operate my blog exactly the same way from my website domain.

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