Subdomains

[LSLPS]

Hi,

I have recently started working in-house for a company and one site development was started and completed just as I joined.

A new area of the site has been developed, but the developers have developed this new section in php, which cannot be hosted on the windows server the site is running on (they tell me, is this correct?)

They want to add the new section as a subdomain - http://newarea.example.co.uk/ whereas I would have preferred the section added as a new subfolder.

I plan to ensure that future developments to not have this problem, but is the best solution to work with the subdomain (in this instance it may not be too bad as it is a niche area of the site), or can I redirect the pages hosted on the sub-domain to a subfolder, and is this recommended?

Thanks for your time.

[DanDeceuster]

If you have a windows server, you cannot run php on those pages. You need a Linux server for this. This means you cannot put PHP in a subdirectory or folder. They are correct that it would have to be a subdomain, hosted on a linux server. You can redirect a URL from your subdomain to a subdirectory URL, but if the content is in php, you cannot put the same content from the subdomain into a subfolder.

Using a subdomain is not the end of the world. It is not ideal, but it won't kill you. Your best bet would be to try and change your hosting to be on a linux server, then use a subdirectory. If not, you have no choice really.