How do I get clean(er) urls for the subpages of my website?

Asked by podwarp (803

) February 25th, 2011

I bought a .me domain a few months back and it’s time to put it to some use. My plan is to set up a basic profile/resume/contact page, but I’d also like to include a few “hidden” subpages just to put random things.

I’ve seen quite a few websites that have something like:
x.y. com as opposed to y.com/x/ and that’s what I would like to do. Does anyone know how I could do that? (I don’t even know if that’s the same thing as a subpage, so excuse the usage if it’s wrong!)

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That is a subdomain. Works nicely for things like blogs or help sections. If your main domain was widget.com your home page would be at www.widget.com/ and you could have blog.widget.com/ and help.widget.com/.

Check your server docs for specifics of establishing subdomains, as it varies somewhat deopending on what server software is in play,

ETpro (34605

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Thanks for the info and clearing up the term for me! I knew my terminology was all over the place.

podwarp (803

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It can be done as per ETpro’s answer, but not every service provider allows customers to do this. What you need to find out is if it is available to you from your service provider(s). If you manage your own DNS records and have a server to point at, then you are pretty much in complete control and can arrange things however you want. OTOH, if you just get an allowance of webspace at ‘y.me’, you might not have the ability to set up subdomains.

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Hey Mark, thanks. I’ve been looking through the FAQs of the web hosts I’ve been considering and it does look like the one I want (NearlyFreeSpeech) does support subdomains so it’s all good.

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