Question about moving a subdomain install to a subdirectory

  • sygnin

    (@sygnin)


    10 years ago

    Hi all

    I have a question regarding my WordPress installs that I hope someone can help me with.

    I am currently running my main website on WordPress. It is installed in a directory, but it is configured to show my ‘www.mywebsite.com’ address.

    I also have a seperate install of WordPress in another directory for my blog. Currently, this is set up as a subdomain, e.g ‘blog.mywebsite.com’

    I was wondering if I can, instead, change the blog to be ‘www.mywebsite.com/blog’? If so, do I just do this from Settings?

    Also, would search engines consider my blog to me part of my main website if I changed the address? Or would it not matter since it has a separate install from the main website?

    I want to keep the blog as a separate WordPress install as there are many images and I don’t want the blog images getting mixed up with the main website’s.

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  • leejosepho

    (@leejosepho)

    my main website…is installed in a directory, but it is configured to show my ‘www.mywebsite.com’ address.

    If ‘www.mywebsite.com’ is what you see in both boxes at Dashboard > Settings > General and your site is in a sub-folder rather than in public_html or whatever, then it is likely either cPanel or an .htaccess file in the preceding folder that is pointing that domain directly to that specific location.

    I was wondering if I can…change [‘blog.mywebsite.com’] to be ‘www.mywebsite.com/blog’?

    Yes, by having your host switch your primary and add-on, each from one position to the other. I did that just a few days ago for different reasons, then only had to go to cPanel and re-point them to the very same places they had previously been just prior to being told to switch places at cPanel.

    …do I just do this from Settings?

    I would doubt that, but I might be wrong and would guess that could quickly turn into quite a project with custom .htaccess doing a lot of redirecting anyway.

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