Non WordPress site with a WordPress subdomain

  • Hi,

    So I’m building a website for a client and they set the site up and contacted me when they realized they didn’t know quite what they were doing. I’m running into a few issues and I’m not quite sure what is causing them or how to fix it.

    They have a website that is not on wordpress and want to have a blog portion that is on wordpress but on a subdomain. So we have currentsite.com that is not wordpress and blog.currentsite.com that is on wordpress. First of all (and this might be a dumb question) is this possible? Is this causing issues on the wordpress site?

    The other problem I’m having is with the theme I’m using (Gonzo from ThemeForest). The shortcodes in the theme aren’t working and the theme author pinpointed it to the FTP set up that’s causing an issue. All of the files for the subdomain are in a random directory on the current site FTP called app4567783 (something like that with a bunch of numbers). Can I simply rename this directory to blog.currentsite.com without causing issues? Apparently my client set up the subdomain through the interface of her hosting provider.

    Sorry if I’m not making sense, but I’m a little out of my skillset right now and a bit confused myself. Someone please help!

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  • Sure it’s possible. I do it all the time. The hosting server must have virtual hosting enabled in Apache and the root of the subdomain must be set to the WordPress directory. For example, if it were a LAMP server you’d enter this into httpd.conf

    <VirtualHost *:80>
    ServerAdmin [email protected]
    DocumentRoot /var/www/html/wordpress/
    ServerName blog.currentsite.com
    ErrorLog logs/blog.currentsite.com-error_log
    CustomLog logs/blog.currentsite.com-access_log common
</VirtualHost>

    As for the FTP problems with the theme, I’d suggest creating a new FTP user specifically for WordPress and setting the root access for that user to the WordPress folder.

    Most of those options should be available through the hosting provider’s control panel.

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