How do I map my blog to a sufolder /blog/ under my root domain
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I currently have blog.mydomain.com. I am looking to migrate this to http://www.mydomain.com/blog/. I have purchased a second ‘custom domain’ today but I cannot figure out how to enable the subfolder and how to start redirecting my existing traffic.
The blog I need help with is: (visible only to logged in users)
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Hey Rich, I do need a bit of clarification. You mention “migrating.” Are you intending to transfer your WordPress.com-hosted site to a self-hosted version on an outside server? Or do you intended to maintain your website here at WordPress.com, but map it to the Domain Name, mydomain.com/blog/?
On the question of enabling subdomain, you would do this with your domain registrar. Here is some more information about subdomains, and how to map them to WordPress.com-hosted sites:
http://en.support.wordpress.com/domains/map-subdomain/
Let me know if you have other questions. Thanks!
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My intention is to maintain the blog at wordpress.com but simply update the path of our existing blog
I want to change the path from blog.mydomain.com to http://www.mydomain.com/blog/
I want to redirect all traffic going to blog.mydomain.com to the cooresponding http://www.mydomain.com/blog/ because the original url is ranked in search engines.
Again… both ARE the same blog in wordpress.com, just different paths.
The reason I want to do this is because we found that using a subdomain for your blog is not as good for SEO as using a folder.
I’ve read the support article but that talks about mapping a “subdomain”. This question is asking how to map a “Folder”. I cannot map my “www” subdomain to wordpress.org as that is our company website and is not a word press site.
Does that help explain what we are trying to do?
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Hi again Rich, that does clarify your needs. Unfortunately, we do not currently allow mapping to subdirectories, such as example.com/blog/, only subdomains.
If you require that your blog be visited via example.com/blog/, you’ll have to migrate to a self-hosted site via WordPress.org.
If you’re not entirely sure of the differences, here’s a breakdown of WordPress.com and WordPress.org:
You can transfer all the content of your WordPress.com site into your self-hosted version.
If you would like more information, this guide will step you through the process of moving your site to a WordPress.org instance:
http://en.support.wordpress.com/moving-a-blog/#moving-to-wordpress-org
As we only support sites hosted here at WordPress.com, all issues with the new site – including the importing of the file – must be taken to the WordPress.org support community:
If you’d like assistance moving your WordPress.com site to WordPress.org, we have a service called Guided Transfer that does all the work for you. Check it out to see if its right for you:
http://en.support.wordpress.com/guided-transfer/
Please let me know if I can help further! Thanks.
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