Title: WordPress Subdomain Setup?
Last modified: December 6, 2023

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# WordPress Subdomain Setup?

 *  [ojasvi1195](https://wordpress.org/support/users/ojasvi1195/)
 * (@ojasvi1195)
 * [2 years, 5 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/wordpress-subdomain-setup/)
 * We are planning to migrate our website from a Static HTML website to WordPress
   website. Since our static html website is already live, our hosting provider 
   suggested that we could set up WordPress initially on a separate subdomain on
   your domain (like www2), ), and then when the new WordPress based website is 
   ready to go live, we can remove the DNS records pointing to the old website, 
   and change the host names for the web hosting to the main hostname and also change
   the main URL of the website.
 * Now the question is how to create a subdomain website such as www2 on wordpress?
   Need more clarity on this. Thank you
 * The page I need help with: _[[log in](https://login.wordpress.org/?redirect_to=https%3A%2F%2Fwordpress.org%2Fsupport%2Ftopic%2Fwordpress-subdomain-setup%2F%3Foutput_format%3Dmd&locale=en_US)
   to see the link]_

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 *  [George Appiah](https://wordpress.org/support/users/gappiah/)
 * (@gappiah)
 * [2 years, 5 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/wordpress-subdomain-setup/#post-17255927)
 * > Now the question is how to create a subdomain website such as www2 on wordpress?
   > Need more clarity on this.
 * To create a subdomain website, you first need to create the subdomain. And you
   do this in your hosting control panel.
 * After creating the subdomain in your hosting control panel, you can then use 
   the created subdomain to install your WordPress website — either [manually](https://developer.wordpress.org/advanced-administration/before-install/howto-install/),**
   or automatically** using the auto-installer your host provides.
 * the exact steps to do all these depend on your own hosting provider and the tools
   they provide in their control panel. It seems **your hosting provider is OVH**,
   so use the tools in your **OVH hosting control panel**, and contact them if you
   need further help.
 * Good luck!

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## Tags

 * [hosting](https://wordpress.org/support/topic-tag/hosting/)
 * [setting up](https://wordpress.org/support/topic-tag/setting-up/)
 * [staging](https://wordpress.org/support/topic-tag/staging/)
 * [subdomain](https://wordpress.org/support/topic-tag/subdomain/)
 * [website migration](https://wordpress.org/support/topic-tag/website-migration/)

 * In: [Developing with WordPress](https://wordpress.org/support/forum/wp-advanced/)
 * 1 reply
 * 2 participants
 * Last reply from: [George Appiah](https://wordpress.org/support/users/gappiah/)
 * Last activity: [2 years, 5 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/wordpress-subdomain-setup/#post-17255927)
 * Status: not resolved

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