• My current site is installed on the main directory of http://example.com , as an example.
    I want to have people be able to go to http://blog.example.com and see just the blog portion of my site. I want the “blog” to share the database of my main site, the theme etc.

    Basically I want people to type in blog.example.com and see what they would see if they typed in example.com/blog/

    Hints? Suggestions ?

    Thank you in advance.

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  • Find out the type of subdomains allowed by your host.

    Thread Starter srdriggers

    (@srdriggers)

    Krishna, I am not sure I understand what you are saying. I know I can add a subdomain. What type of subdomain would I need to add to allow what I am asking? I wasn’t aware there were different types.

    Can you login to your hosting account? If so you can find out details about what I wrote. Some hosts do not allow any subdomains. Some may allow unlimited subdomains.

    Thread Starter srdriggers

    (@srdriggers)

    My host allows unlimited subdomains. Adding the subdomain is not the issue. Figuring out how to make it work so the see my main site blog entries when they go to blog.example.com is the issue.

    You can add to http://blog.example.com to to http://example.com‘s navigation.

    Thread Starter srdriggers

    (@srdriggers)

    Krishna,

    Thank you for the suggestions. The issue isn’t adding it to the navigation but how to make a subdomain hold a portion of my actual site. I think ultimately the best way to handle this for now would be to simply create a redirect from my subdomain blog.example.com to my blog category of example.com/blog/ .

    Thanks!

    Basically I want people to type in blog.example.com and see what they would see if they typed in example.com/blog/

    So, what you state above is what you want. Right? Do you have both now, or are you going to create them? If you want to create them and then do a redirect, I do not think it is the right approach. Choose between any of the two, that would be what I do.

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