Title: Adding a subdomain ?
Last modified: August 20, 2016

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# Adding a subdomain ?

 *  [srdriggers](https://wordpress.org/support/users/srdriggers/)
 * (@srdriggers)
 * [13 years, 9 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/adding-a-subdomain/)
 * My current site is installed on the main directory of [http://example.com](http://example.com),
   as an example.
    I want to have people be able to go to [http://blog.example.com](http://blog.example.com)
   and see just the blog portion of my site. I want the “blog” to share the database
   of my main site, the theme etc.
 * Basically I want people to type in blog.example.com and see what they would see
   if they typed in example.com/blog/
 * Hints? Suggestions ?
 * Thank you in advance.

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 *  [Krishna](https://wordpress.org/support/users/1nexus/)
 * (@1nexus)
 * [13 years, 9 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/adding-a-subdomain/#post-2968096)
 * Find out the type of subdomains allowed by your host.
 *  Thread Starter [srdriggers](https://wordpress.org/support/users/srdriggers/)
 * (@srdriggers)
 * [13 years, 9 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/adding-a-subdomain/#post-2968099)
 * Krishna, I am not sure I understand what you are saying. I know I can add a subdomain.
   What type of subdomain would I need to add to allow what I am asking? I wasn’t
   aware there were different types.
 *  [Krishna](https://wordpress.org/support/users/1nexus/)
 * (@1nexus)
 * [13 years, 9 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/adding-a-subdomain/#post-2968101)
 * Can you login to your hosting account? If so you can find out details about what
   I wrote. Some hosts do not allow any subdomains. Some may allow unlimited subdomains.
 *  Thread Starter [srdriggers](https://wordpress.org/support/users/srdriggers/)
 * (@srdriggers)
 * [13 years, 9 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/adding-a-subdomain/#post-2968102)
 * My host allows unlimited subdomains. Adding the subdomain is not the issue. Figuring
   out how to make it work so the see my main site blog entries when they go to 
   blog.example.com is the issue.
 *  [Krishna](https://wordpress.org/support/users/1nexus/)
 * (@1nexus)
 * [13 years, 9 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/adding-a-subdomain/#post-2968106)
 * You can add to `http://blog.example.com` to to `http://example.com`‘s navigation.
 *  Thread Starter [srdriggers](https://wordpress.org/support/users/srdriggers/)
 * (@srdriggers)
 * [13 years, 9 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/adding-a-subdomain/#post-2968111)
 * Krishna,
 * Thank you for the suggestions. The issue isn’t adding it to the navigation but
   how to make a subdomain hold a portion of my actual site. I think ultimately 
   the best way to handle this for now would be to simply create a redirect from
   my subdomain blog.example.com to my blog category of example.com/blog/ .
 * Thanks!
 *  [Krishna](https://wordpress.org/support/users/1nexus/)
 * (@1nexus)
 * [13 years, 9 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/adding-a-subdomain/#post-2968128)
 * > Basically I want people to type in blog.example.com and see what they would
   > see if they typed in example.com/blog/
 * So, what you state above is what you want. Right? Do you have both now, or are
   you going to create them? If you want to create them and then do a redirect, 
   I do not think it is the right approach. Choose between any of the two, that 
   would be what I do.

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 * In: [Fixing WordPress](https://wordpress.org/support/forum/how-to-and-troubleshooting/)
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 * Last reply from: [Krishna](https://wordpress.org/support/users/1nexus/)
 * Last activity: [13 years, 9 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/adding-a-subdomain/#post-2968128)
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