Questions tagged [subdomain]
Subdomain is a domain which is a part of a larger domain. For example, 'sub.example.com' is subdomain of 'example.com' domain.
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Does Google Workspace rely on A records in DNS for anything else apart from bare domain redirect?
I manage a small Google Workspace. In the beginning, many years ago, the primary domain was configured to redirect to the www. subdomain using the relevant Workspace (back then Google Apps?) feature. ...
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How to remove the wildcard subdomain on Apache to prevent Google from indexing Subdomains that do not exist
I am experiencing the issue explained at https://stackoverflow.com/questions/53065450/subdomains-that-dont-exist-are-indexed-by-google-zombie-subdomain-removal-via. Notice how the the search engine ...
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How to remove a deleted subdomain website from Google Search?
I made a website in the past on my website's subdomain. But when I saw that all the posts and pages on that subdomain became indexed in Google Search, I was shocked. I didn't want the subdomain to be ...
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Deleted subdomain still visible through Subdomain Finder Tools
I have a couple of subdomains that have been deleted(more than a year ago). I was curious if the deleted domain can be tracked.
So, I used a subdomain finder tool from https://subdomainfinder.c99.nl ...
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intercept numerical subdomains and rewrite to example.com/?(number)
Is there anyway via .htaccess to rewrite numerical subdomains to /?.
For example, 0123.example.com would be handled by example.com/?0123.
I want a rewrite rule not a redirect because I want to hide ...
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Domain & Subdomain have same Domain Rating
I'm doing SEO on a (relatively) new subdomain of an existing website. I'm having an issue where I can't seem to find the subdomain's Domain Rating, Authority Score, or any similar metric without it ...
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How do I remove a subdomain that is shared to another webhost?
One of my team members had a separate webhost from mine and he suggested to host a website from a subdomain on his webhost, we did that and it was all ok untill the team disbanded and now I want the ...
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Adding new DNS record to Netlify in order to make my domain point a new site
I have a new site: newsite.com (my new site has no subdomain such as www or ftp), so I wrote "@" to Name section when I created my DNS record.
I had an old site that I wanted to redo. I registered a ...
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How to properly block indexing my admin subdomain?
I have a website hosted on https://admin.example.com.
However, the public website displayed is on this sub-directory : https://www.example.com/website/
For technical reasons, we cannot install it or ...
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Using custom sub domain on Tumblr - how does this work with Tumblr domains?
I've got a tumblr site running on a custom subdomain, for example: one.mydomain.com I set this up around 8 years ago.
I want to change it it to a new subdomain of the same domain, for example: two....
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Is it possible to transfer an old domain to a new subdomain?
Is it possible to move an old domain to a new subdomain permanently without losing search engine rankings? For example, going from https://www.example.com/ to https://blog.newexample.com/?
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How to place subdomain in the sitemap
A site made this sitemap for me:
<urlset xmlns="http://www.sitemaps.org/schemas/sitemap/0.9" xmlns:xsi="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema-instance" xsi:schemaLocation="http:/...
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Remove subdomain URLS from Google search console without removing WWW
There are two subdomains for my website. The subdomain for the production site is www.example.com. The subdomain for the test site is test.example.com.
test.example.com is showing up in Google search ...
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Optimizing SEO for User-Generated Content: Subdomain, Separate Domain, or Subdirectory?
I'm developing a website which will prominently feature user-generated content. This content will be high-quality and unique, produced by the users of my paying customers. However, it's worth noting ...
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How does redirecting a subdomain to a new domain affect the original root domain
Domain A currently has a subdomain B. Subdomain B is being redesigned and launching on its on domain C.
Should the redirects be created to Domain C individually or at the sun domain level within ...
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What is the purpose of ww1 prefixes on some domains
Occasionally I see some websites with ww1 prefix/subdomain instead of www.
Is there a designated use for subdomains such as ww1 and ww2?
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Reverse proxy tcp/udp traffic based on a subdomain in nginx
I need to reverse proxy some servers so my home IP isn't leaked to the internet when people connect to my servers. I am currently trying to do this with nginx. I finally have my home server, my vps, ...
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Does Content on a Subdomain build Authority/PageRank on the Main Domain? [duplicate]
SEO Question: What is the best place to host a Blog on a website?
is site.com/blog better for SEO than blog.site.com?
If we have a Blog at blog.site.com and a lot of people link to a popular post e.g: ...
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Google Analytics (Universal): Regex Filter on report for multiple pages
I'm setting up an Analytics report and want the data from two pages combined. I don't want the data from any of the subpages or parent pages included.
Say that the pages are Trier Blog and ...
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GA4 data streams and subdomains
So i have this current setup with GA (universal analytics) where a subscription platform runs on a subdomain therefor we use a different view and different tracking code.
But with GA 4, i was ...
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Do I need to buy a domain for each sub domain I want to use with nginx?
I want to set up an nginx server on a vps to reverse proxy to some Minecraft servers that I am hosting and running locally on my home IP. I understand I will need to buy an A record for my domain(I ...
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How to move subdomain to own domain and automatically get search engine visibility
A website had separate content in a subdomain, e.g. subdomain.example.com. Later, that content was moved to its own domain, e.g.: subdomain.com. Note that there is no duplication of content. I never ...
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Is it possible to create a new AdSense account for a subdomain when the root domain is already approved for AdSense?
I have a domain (example.com) that is AdSense approved, but I want to create a subdomain (abc.example.com) which I would want to use another AdSense account with. How possible is this?
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Are website subdomains that start with "www." and those which do not start with "www." one and the same thing?
For a website, e.g. example.co.uk, when I write it in the URL bar of browser, it takes me to the URL https://example.co.uk.
When I enumerate the subdomains of the website, I get subdomains like www....
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Should I use CNAME or Apache virtual host for www?
At this time I have a CNAME record with host "www" and pointing to example.com. But with this setup, when a user types www.example.com, he gets "redirected" (I know it's not an ...
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Trying to setup www subdomain results in 'This site can't be reached' or 400 Bad Request Error
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To get www.example.com to point to my web application.
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I've been following several tutorials to try and get www.example.com to point to my website. I can only get example.com and https://...
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Prepending "www." to a subdomain shows the content of main domain rather than the subdomain, is this a DNS or hosting problem?
I have a domain for our company (example.com) and several subdomains for our clients (yyy.example.com).
I have the A record for all of them pointing to the same IP.
I have the www CNAME records ...
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Google seemingly ignoring redirects
So a bit of background. We previously maintained a blog-style news site to supplement our main e-commerce site, on a separate domain, let's call it magazine.example.com. The site was built using ...
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Is there a way to show traffic between two different Containers in Google Tag Manager?
I have two subdomains on my site that have largely been independent of each other until we just started doing promotional content on one to direct to the other. Now I'm trying to get metrics on how ...
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What Impact on subdomain to change the NS server record
I want to change my hosting services to another service provider.
What will be the impact on subdomains if I change the new hosting NS record on domain registrar.
Currently I am using the multiple ...
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Should I Add images Subdomain To Search Console?
My website:
example.com
My images subdomain:
images.example.com
I added images.example.com to search console a few years ago, because I had read that subdomains should be added to search console.
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Connect Google Analytics properly for a website that is accessible from 2 subdomains
I have a website that is accessible from 2 subdomains. For example one.example.net and two.example.net.
These 2 subdomains send the user to the same website and they do not have any different ...
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Migrate old WordPress site to a subdomain via cPanel
I'm a volunteer with non-profit helping with their website. I'm accustomed to working the frontend, but not the backend. We recently connected the website domain to a new site on Squarespace. Since ...
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View subdomain on cpanel without domain
I've a cPanel/WHM with some clients.
On cPanel, with an domain you just need create subdomain (mySub.myDomain.example) and go on that for view website.
But, how I can do that for clients without ...
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How to allow users to add custom domains on our web app like wix, appflow and heroku? [closed]
We are building a web app in ReactJS which allows users to create websites for their real estate listings. A user has to select a subdomain for themselves and all of their listing website have a ...
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Best way to configure URL and subdomain
I am configuring a new brand which is a sub-entity of a well established organisation with excellent Google standing.
I was thinking to configure the new site as a subdomain, new.old-brand.example, ...
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Cloudflare "can't provide a secure connection" to subdomain with www prefix
I have connected my site to the Cloudflare through A DNS record and CNAME too. For example:
A domain.com 109.106.***.** Proxied Auto
CNAME www domain.com Proxied Auto
The site works very fine at all,...
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What's the difference between Domain NameServers and Domain Hosts?
In cosmotown I have these 2 options:
This is how the screen for the first option looks like:
And the second option:
I am a newbie and I don't have much experience with domains and DNS and I couldn'...
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Temporary domain for new version of a website
I'm redesigning a website. Many parts of the old (current) website are still useable, but some other critical parts (say product page & purchase flow) are broken and the new, redesigned website ...
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About domain, subdomain and different hosting
I'm new to WebDev. I don't know much about domains or subdomains. I know I can create subdomains if I buy my own domain but I want to know if I can use subdomains with different hosting.
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How to exclude bounces from users just clicking "Sign In App" to navigate to a subdomain in Google Analytics?
I've got www.example.com and app.example.com. I control both. On the "www" site, there's a "Sign In" hyperlink that sends people to the app's login page (a known URL on the app ...
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Google doesn't index my site-home page and google-search-console appear the message "Crawled - currently not indexed" [duplicate]
Hello it is the first time i am trying to deal with seo and i have a problem.
Almost a month ago google crawled my site but hasn't indexted it so yet. Google search console showed me only a short ...
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My alias binding isn't working in IIS
I'm trying to get an alias working in IIS. Right now the site binding (the top in the picture) works when I type the ip:port into a web browser, however I cannot get the other 4 bindings to work as ...
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Can I have a generic rule to map subdomains to directories?
I have these rulesets which are working.
RewriteCond %{HTTPS} =on
RewriteCond %{HTTP_HOST} ^www\.example\.city$ [NC]
RewriteRule ^(.*)$ https://example.city/$1 [R=301,L]
RewriteCond %{HTTPS} !=on
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Mask web application ipaddress:port with domain name
I have a node js web application running on static ipaddress with port 4000. I can access my application on the internet successfully using port forwarding in router, now I want to mask my public ...
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Manage multiple subdomain on a different nameserver?
I have a domain, example.com which is managed on Cloudflare, and I would like to manage multiple sub-sub-domains, that end with .internal.example.com, such as one.one.internal.example.com and two....
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Where a domain is mapped onto a subdomain, can the redirected url be hidden from the browser
I now have my main domain working fine. I have 5 other independent domains that I am trying to map onto my main domain as sub-domains. I also have a wild-card certificate to cover the 4 of those ...
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Cookie Free Subdomain on Flask
How do you set up a cookie free subdomain on Flask. My website already has subdomains, so setting that up is not a problem. But I'm not sure how to (a) request files across all subdomains (and the ...
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Why do browsers know to lookup the `www` record if DNS query for @ gets NXDOMAIN?
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If I dig for businessbrief.xyz, I get no results, but the subdomain www returns an address. Entering businessbrief.xyz into any browser's address bar goes to a valid web address.
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Domain cookie (_ga) from upper-level domain
I have deleted Google analytics account, Google site Kit plugin and Google .html verification file from the server about 30 min ago. Yet, I see a _ga cookie still being set. For example, we can take ...
