How do sub-domains work?

reallukeburrows · May 3, 2021, 2:23pm

Hi there everyone,

I’m new to Webflow and want to move my WP site over. But I want to keep the blog on WP.

I understand I can do this via the use of sub-domain.

Any ideas on how this works in practice?

Thanks!

Here is my site Read-Only: LINK
(how to share your site Read-Only link)

iratefox · May 3, 2021, 2:44pm

At your DNS provider (maybe you’re using your domain name provider, or maybe something like Cloudflare) you’d specify A/CNAME records, specifying the given name of the subdomain and where this should point to.

So you’ll end up with some records like this:

domain.com pointing to Webflow IP addresses
Probably www.domain.com pointing to Webflow IP addresses or the root domain.com
blog.domain.com pointing to the IP address of the server hosting your WP blog pages

Then you’d build your site on Webflow which would be the main website, and you’d handle the blog section as an entirely separate entity.

reallukeburrows · May 3, 2021, 5:23pm

Thank you. I will try that

Marketing_Izei · March 31, 2023, 5:55pm

Hi everyone,

i’m also new to Webflow and i have the same question but just in different order. I want to keep my global site in a different hosting server and connect a subdomain to a landing page in webflow.

Any ideas on how this can work?

Here is the read-only-link:
https://twilio-landing-page.webflow.io/

Thanks!