Hi,
I created my website with Freeway but needed very advanced functions for selling my images, so I have used www.theimagefile.com to create these pages, which mirror the look of my freeway site.
I now need to incorporate the imagefile pages into my www.heatherhughes.co.uk site.
I’m creating a new top menu heading called Image Sales.
With my current hosting provider I have set up a new DNS CNAME called imagesales.
On the imagefile I have put that my URL is imagesales.heatherhughes.co.uk.
Sooo… my question is:
in Freeway, when I create the new menu item Image Sales on my freeway site, do I have to create a blank page called imagesales, or do I just link from the menu item directly to email@hidden.
I know it should be obvious, probably, but my mind doesn’t seem to do obvious!
Hope you can help
Best
Heather
Hi Heather - I hope I understand what you are asking.
Very Smart People™ will be able to tell you the difference between a
subdomain and a subfolder. To me, they both look - and often act - the
same. I’ve several subdomains at my own site - http://portfolio.thebigerns.com is just one of them. To make my subdomains,
I use a tool in my site’s CPanel controls which automates the process. From
my point of view, it looks just like a subfolder - so again we will have to
rely on bigger brains to explain any difference. Your hosting provider will
have more information on tools they provide to you - like CPanel - for
making subdomains.
Once made though, a subdomain acts very much like a subfolder. My portfolio
subdomain can also be reached by this link - http://www.thebigerns.com/portfolio - which treats it as a subfolder.
Simply redirect FWP to upload its output files to the new imagesales folder
instead of the old imagefile site.
To complete this journey, you will want to keep the old imagefile domain
and do what is called a Redirect to the subdomain URL from your domain
register - this will help it be found at the new location. In fact, for
some time you may want to leave the old imagefile site up, but start
building regular page redirects to the new location. It’s all a bit of
intermediate work but will help your traffic get to the right place and
help the search engines make the leap.
A little disjointed in thought, but I hope this helps you out.
–
Ernie Simpson
On Mon, Aug 18, 2014 at 9:00 AM, Heather Hughes <
email@hidden> wrote:
Hi,
I created my website with Freeway but needed very advanced functions for
selling my images, so I have used www.theimagefile.com to create these
pages, which mirror the look of my freeway site.
I now need to incorporate the imagefile pages into my www.heatherhughes.co.uk site.
I’m creating a new top menu heading called Image Sales.
With my current hosting provider I have set up a new DNS CNAME called
imagesales.
On the imagefile I have put that my URL is imagesales.heatherhughes.co.uk.
Sooo… my question is:
in Freeway, when I create the new menu item Image Sales on my freeway
site, do I have to create a blank page called imagesales, or do I just link
from the menu item directly to email@hidden.
I know it should be obvious, probably, but my mind doesn’t seem to do
obvious!
Hope you can help
Best
Heather
So are these pages hosted at theimagefile.com and you want to display them in a subdomain of your site or do you just want to take the html files and Resources for these pages and stick them in the subdomain.
It is not that clear to us as we dont know how theimagefile.com works.
Subdomains and subfolders are wildly different things, regardless how they are implemented. A subdomain is a human-readable machine name – a “handle” for a numeric IP address of a particular Internet server. (Technically, www.example.com is an example of a subdomain of the example.com “top level” domain.)
A subfolder (or subdirectory) is just a folder inside your Web server’s “site root” folder (the place where index.html and other publicly available files live), and it has no specific meaning outside of maybe information organization. You may see the URL of a particular page “segmented” into folders for various reasons – organization on the server (since you don’t want to have to blindly hunt through all the files when you want to change one) and also metadata for your site users (am I “in” the products section or the support section?).
What gets confusing here is that some hosting providers (ModWest springs to mind) have in place a system called “wildcard DNS”, which allows their customers to quickly make up a subdomain on their main (top-level) domain as easily as making a subfolder in their Web root. The critical difference between this system and the larger definition of a subdomain is that this convenient sub-site can be accessed in two ways (as Dave noted), either by its subdomain name or by its subfolder path.
A true subdomain host can be defined in your hosting provider’s control panel as pointing to another folder entirely outside of your main Web root folder. You could have this setup in your server:
In this case, your subdomain (whatever it is called) would not also be a subfolder of the main Web root (htdocs) so it would not be accessible from within that folder. The Apache Web server has no particular affection for the htdocs folder (or whatever it is called on your server) – it will look wherever it is told to look for files to serve, and it can be told to look in multiple places. It’s endlessly flexible, which can and does lead to confusion when you move from one server to another. Different sysadmins, different disk layouts, different default configuration “conventions”.
