Re: [PHP] Off the wall - sub-domain question

[email protected] (Daniel Brown)
Newsgroups php.general
Message-ID <CAD9cneP5YO-doEiF3PriuRVNdnrfTzLRBZ7k-VsE_zdNE9yUXw@mail.gmail.com>
On Wed, Aug 21, 2013 at 5:16 PM, Jim Giner <[email protected]> wrote:
> I have a main domain (of course) and a sub domain.  I'm really trying to
> steer my personal stuff away from the main one and have focused all of my
> php development to the sub-domain.
>
> Lately I noticed that google catalogs my sub-domain site stuff under the
> main domain name and the links that come up lead to that domain name with
> the path that takes the user to the sub-domain's home folder and beyond.
>
> Is there something that php (apache??) can do to control either google's
> robots or the user's view (url) so that it appears as a page of my
> sub-domain?  I'm really new at this stuff and know nothing.  I'm lucky that
> google is even finding my site!

    You'd probably want to do some 301 redirects with mod_rewrite to
force the domain over to the subdomain if under that directory.  In so
doing, Google (and other search engines) will drop the /subdomain
folder, and index only the destination.

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</Daniel P. Brown>
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