subcategory to subdomain mapping

  • gulflee

    (@gulflee)


    12 years, 8 months ago

    In a single install wordpress, not wp-ms
    i m trying to do this subcategory to subdomain mapping, the subdomain structure is with country it would look like this:
    thailand.maindomain.com
    singapore.maindomain.com
    maindomain.com

    in maindomain.com i have category of each country respectively,
    maindomain.com/singapore
    and i would like to know is there a wayto make as below

    maindomain.com/singapore –> singapore.maindomain.com
    maindomain.com/thailand–> thailand.maindomain.com

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  • TCBarrett

    (@tcbarrett)

    12 years, 8 months ago

    You could possible set up a wildcard DNS record for *.maindomain.com and then use web server redirects or a WordPress hook to push the visitor onto maindomain.com/$1

    Thread Starter gulflee

    (@gulflee)

    12 years, 8 months ago

    thank you tcbarrett for the reply,
    do the subdomain need to have content to display?
    maindomain.com/singapore –> singapore.maindomain.com
    b;cos i m trying to display content of
    maindomain.com/singapore and the url rewrite show singapore.maindomain.com

    digibucc

    (@digibucc)

    12 years, 8 months ago

    yeah most hosting companies have free subdomains, at least a number of them.

    for example on one site i maintain they have a ‘nascar.site.com’ , that really just goes to ‘site.com/nascar’ so once you have it so that the subdomain points to the proper directory on the main domain – you can set up a url redirect via plugin/htaccess if necessary.

    Thread Starter gulflee

    (@gulflee)

    12 years, 8 months ago

    thanks digibucc, the subdomain.maindomain.com had A record pointed to the 2nd server, i m figuring it to show the content at maindomain.com/subdomain

    arrentan

    (@arrentan)

    12 years, 8 months ago

    Gulf, why not you just import and and export your post based on category to your sub blog with WordPress multisite installation?

    It will save up your time for the redirection and gives better SEO result.

    Thread Starter gulflee

    (@gulflee)

    12 years, 2 months ago

    that is an initial ideal but when comes to few 10s of them it is a nightmare to manage them.
    and i m only needing a few like 3~4 OF them in subdomain the rest of the categories will be remain in subdirectory..
    thanks

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