WordPress.my-website.com VS my-website.com/WordPress — Is one way better?

  • Are there advantages and disadvantages to where WordPress is installed in an existing domain? I mean, does it matter whether is is a folder after the domain name or in a subdomain?

    WordPress.my-website.com VS my-website.com/WordPress

    I (accidentally) had my webhost install WordPress in folder. IE: my-website/wordpress. But, I don’t have edit privileges. (It would have been if they told me that in the first place). I can’t delete that installation. (no priviledges, as I said)

    So, should I install wordpress in my-website.com/WordPress and hope it overwrites the web host’s version, or should I go a different route entirely and install it in WordPress.my-website.com.

    Thank you,

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  • If your host is decent, you can have both. (it sounds like yours is not) On hosts I’ve used, when you set up a subdomain, such as
    wordpress.my-website.com, the actual files are, in fact, at my-website.com/wordpress, but the site works using either URL. That’s a very common scenario, and is standard with hosts that have CPanel.

    I’m a little confused by the 2nd part of your question… sounds like they’ve already installed WP to /wordpress, so I don’t see what doing the same thing again buys you.

    Slight rant: I’m puzzled that so many purchase hosting that is so poor, in a very competitive market. Even Godummy hosting, which I’ve worked with for clients, offers more flexibility that that. I guess it must be that everybody’s broke. End of rant.

    Thread Starter x-evolutionist

    (@x-evolutionist)

    @flamenco You might have missed me saying that I have no edit privileges. I cannot upgrade, change themes, etc. All I can do with what they gave me is post blog entries.

    This is what my webhost says about WordPress:

    You can use our application vault to do an auto-install of WordPress (recommended for novice users) or you can do the famous 5 minute WordPress Manual Installation (the best choice for experience users).

    So, I either want to install www.ads-software.com software over what they gave me in /blog, or I have to put it someplace else. I’m not sure the original install will let me override it. Just looking at other options.

    Thank you,

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