Linking Subdomain Installation

  • zach@cp

    (@cpit)


    9 years, 10 months ago

    I am taking over administration of a company wordpress website which has a storefront wordpress website, both hosted on godaddy:

    companyname.com
    store.companyname.com

    In the dashboard upper left, next to the wordpress “W”, there is a dropdown link with items Visit Site and Visit Store. The Visit Store link is inactive from the site dashboard.

    I don’t think this is a multisite, because the store directory has its own set of wp files (wp-content/, wp-config.php etc.). However one admin login does work across both dashboards.

    Lots of WordPress documents and topics I’ve viewed mention accessing domains through the dashboard, but I can’t find anywhere to do this. Tools only has Import and Export items. I am wondering how WordPress links the site to the store site?

    Also how is the store home page linked to the subdomain? That is, navigating to the installation directory in a browser doesn’t load the same page as navigating to the subdomain:

    Different pages
    store.companyname.com
    companyname.com/store

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  • jon

    (@adiant)

    9 years, 10 months ago

    Given there are two sets of WordPress files, this is two single-site WordPress installations. As such, WordPress does not link the two sites together; somebody created the links manually.

    As for the two sites have the same login ID and password, that was also done manually. However, if you login to one site and don’t have to login to the other, then something else is going on, typically a Single SignOn (SSO) plugin or service was installed.

    In summary, to answer your question: each site is administered separately from a WordPress Admin panel perspective.

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