Title: Using Multiple Domains
Last modified: August 22, 2016

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# Using Multiple Domains

 *  [ddperry](https://wordpress.org/support/users/ddperry/)
 * (@ddperry)
 * [11 years, 5 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/using-multiple-domains/)
 * Background:
 * I work at a non-profit who has a company run its website. Their server doesn’t
   support PHP or MySQL… and they have their own Content Management System.
 * My company wants to put together a special little website, and I suggested using
   a WP. They’re into it, and had me build it on a different server with its own
   domain name.
 * Question:
 * I have a WordPress site at **short-special-url.com**. My work’s hosting company
   offered to point **subdomain.work-website.com** to **short-special-url.com**.
   Is there a way to make it so that **subdomain.work-website.com** stays as the
   URL, via some form of masking or URL FWDing, even as it loads the site from **
   short-special-url.com**?
 * As I would just host the entire site at subdomain.work-wesbite.com, I cannot,
   as the server doesn’t support PHP or mySQL and cannot install WordPress.
 * Furthermore, could it be pointed to the IP Address of the WordPress Site and 
   work that way?

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 *  [David Sword](https://wordpress.org/support/users/davidsword/)
 * (@davidsword)
 * [11 years, 5 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/using-multiple-domains/#post-5513447)
 * sub domains are domains. they have their own dns zone file.
 * you can point `subdomain.work-website.com`‘s `A record` to the IP of `short-special-
   url.com`.
 * I’m confused at what you’d like to be the primary domain, but I assume they’d
   like the sub-sites primary to be the sub-domain:
 * So, on `short-special-url.com` change the wordpress `home` and `site_url` values(
   along with all other urls in the database) to `subdomain.work-website.com` and
   add the `subdomain.work-website.com` to the domains section of your host so it
   knows which customer to point the domain to (can’t remember if that matters or
   not, might matter on shared hosting)
 * As for “masking” `short-special-url.com`, look into “.htaccess rewrites”, or 
   just do domain forwarding.

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 * [multiple domains](https://wordpress.org/support/topic-tag/multiple-domains/)

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 * Last activity: [11 years, 5 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/using-multiple-domains/#post-5513447)
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