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Membership site as a subdomain?

by Dwight Anthony
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I was wondering in an effort to consolidate domains and make easy and trackable as possible, would it be fairly easy to make a subdomain of your sales domain a secured membership site like below:

productX.com/membersonly/site/index.php

Where public cannot view the membersonly/site/ directory above and once paid and you send customers to the above address, can you use a blog theme and membership ship script like wishlist to secure everything up for you. I'm fairly technical but unsure if the above scenario would work.

If wrong, could someone correct and shed light or add more suggestions? Curious to know.
#membership #site #subdomain
  • Profile picture of the author Sheryl Polomka
    I have never done it myself but I really don't see why you couldn't do that. As long as the niche for the membership site relates to the name of the main domain I don't think it would be a problem.
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  • Profile picture of the author paulie888
    Originally Posted by danthony View Post

    I was wondering in an effort to consolidate domains and make easy and trackable as possible, would it be fairly easy to make a subdomain of your sales domain a secured membership site like below:

    productX.com/membersonly/site/index.php

    Where public cannot view the membersonly/site/ directory above and once paid and you send customers to the above address, can you use a blog theme and membership ship script like wishlist to secure everything up for you. I'm fairly technical but unsure if the above scenario would work.

    If wrong, could someone correct and shed light or add more suggestions? Curious to know.
    The URL that you refer to is not technically a subdomain. A subdomain would be something like this:

    membersonly.productX.com

    What you're suggesting is just a sub URL, and when it's nested several levels deep like what you've shown in your post I don't think it's going to be as convenient for members to type in and access. I'd just set up a subdomain like my example above, your members will definitely appreciate being able to more easily access the membership part of your website.

    Paul
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    • Profile picture of the author CDarklock
      Originally Posted by paulie888 View Post

      What you're suggesting is just a sub URL, and when it's nested several levels deep like what you've shown in your post I don't think it's going to be as convenient for members to type in and access.
      Usually, you would put a link up in the top right corner of productX.com that says "member login" that points to productX.com/membersonly/site/index.php which one would assume your members are likely to bookmark anyway.

      When they don't, they just type productX.com and click "member login" at the upper right.

      And if you do membersonly.productX.com instead, most of your customers are going to do the same thing. Nobody is really sure whether your blog is at mydomain.com/blog or blog.mydomain.com, but they always expect to find a link on mydomain.com that leads to it.
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    • Profile picture of the author donhx
      Originally Posted by paulie888 View Post

      The URL that you refer to is not technically a subdomain. A subdomain would be something like this:

      membersonly.productX.com

      Paul

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  • Profile picture of the author Sheryl Polomka
    I agree with Paul - set it up as a sub-domain as he has shown!
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  • Profile picture of the author Gary King
    The shorter the better like:

    productX.com/members

    but also link to it from productX.com as CDarklock says.

    It will absolutely work to answer your original question.

    Hope it helps.

    Gary
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    • Profile picture of the author Rich Struck
      Back in the old days we used to do exactly what you are asking about. It worked fine but it is kind of clunky.
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  • Profile picture of the author raradra
    My membership site is on a subdomain with my optin list on the top level domain. It's blog software with a membership script plugin and it works great!

    On my tld page it has a link to click for members to login or they can bookmark the actual login page if they want as well of course.

    so yes, short answer is it works fine having a membersite on a blog subdomain.
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  • Profile picture of the author vstar00
    yeah this is how I run my site
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    • Profile picture of the author David-JP
      Yes, you can put your blog in a subdirectory and then protect the directory so that only members can access it. You can protect it using simple password protection from your cpanel, but if you want a truly automated solution, then software like amember is needed.

      David
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