How To Host Your WordPress Blog In A Sub-Folder, Hosted Separately

One of my Concierge clients had an interesting situation we had to figure out.

His main site is hosted somewhere else because it is a proprietary job board. However, he wants his blog to be on WordPress. The job board cannot host WordPress, so we had to host the blog elsewhere.

Typically, when you use different hosts, you would use a sub-domain to do that. Your root domain can point to one host while you can have any number of sub-domains you like pointing anywhere you please. It is very simple.

But, it was determined it would be best not to use a sub-domain and instead use a sub-folder structure. It is better for SEO this way since the SEO benefits of those blog posts would lend strength to the primary domain.

This same setup would work in other kinds of situations. You could have your main site running on ClickFunnels, Kajabi, Shopify or any other third-party proprietary system and still have your blog run on WordPress.

• Here’s The Setup
• Here’s How It Was Done
• Here’s What’s Happening
• One last thing….
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So, let’s say your main site is running on domain.com.

You want your blog to run on WordPress and be available at domain.com/blog/.

This way it will all look like the same site, even though it is technically on two different platforms and two different hosting providers.

Using a sub-domain like blog.domain.com would be much easier. Just point the domain at the DNS level using an A record or a CNAME. But, that doesn’t work for a sub-directory. We need a different approach. An approach that will “fake it”.