CNAME and Subdomains….

  • I’m am using a CNAME to forward my main domain to a photoshelter site.
    This works fine.

    What I’m trying to add is an installation of wordpress in a subdomain (a folder named /archives).
    This isn’t working yet.

    I have added the directory through cpanel. I installed wordpress in that directory via a script provided by my host (namecheap). I have edited the wp-config.php file for the correct database / user name etc. I have verified that wp_options.php has the correct URL.

    The issue is when I go to my subdomain’s website it gives me a page not found, and has the web design of my photoshelter site around it…. so I figure the problem stems from the fact that traffic is going to photoshelter instead of looking at my hosting site?

    subdomain is: https://www.highpressurephotography.com/archives

    any thoughts?

    thanks
    Erik

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  • Hello Erik,

    The CNAME record from https://www.highpressurephotography.com that is pointing to custom.photoshelter.com will bypass your current web hosting provider and therefore requests to URLs like https://www.highpressurephotography.com/blog/ or https://www.highpressurephotography.com/anything/ will intentionally be passed into photoshelter’s system by design.

    Have you considered setting up a new hosting space called something like blog.highpressurephotography.com similar to how archives.highpressurephotography.com is currently provisioned and installing WordPress there instead?

    Thread Starter erikturner

    (@erikturner)

    thanks for your thoughts, keith.

    I’ve learned alot in this process, and leaned heavily on namecheap customer service.

    First lesson was that a subdomain is like “subdomain.domain.com” not “domain.com/subdomain” ?? So I’ve actually arrived at hte solution to have a working “archive” site at archives.highpressurephotography.com

    took a while to get things set up correctly for… a lot of reasons that probably aren’t that useful for anyone else’s setup… but… it works now!

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