Best approch for subdomain

Discussion in 'Site & Server Administration' started by dshah, Mar 29, 2006.

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    Could someone elobarate on the right way to go for subdomains. I have a site with ww w.xyz.com/forums, which I want to make forums.x yz.com without getting into duplicate content penalty (same page accessible by two URLs) etc.

    Thanks in advance.
     
    dshah, Mar 29, 2006 IP
  2. Slapyo

    Slapyo Well-Known Member

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    If you have cPanel you can create a subdomain forums. Then to get rid of anyone trying to get to /forums you could use the .htaccess file to do a redirect from www.xyz.com/forums to forums.xyz.com.

    I think that should work.
     
    Slapyo, Mar 30, 2006 IP
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    dshah Well-Known Member

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    what about SEO penalties for redirects? I pretty much know how to make subdomains, but what I want to know is 'right' way to do it.

    Thanks for your response anyways.
     
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    If you set it up as a 301 permanent redirect it should be ok.
     
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