Domains and sub domains

[Ian Lawther]

I am in the very early stages of setting up a store and had already taken some steps before discovering osCommerce. I would like some advice as to whether those steps will make using osCommerce difficult or not.

 

For some years I have had a website on which I advertise musical services I provide (www.travelingpiper.com). My plan is to set up a store selling CDs to the specialist bagpiping market...there are quite a lot of CDs out there but no one has a lot of them in one place. As there is a lot of spare space on my main website I have set up a subdomain for the store on it and bought redirection to it for the new domain name I have registered.

 

After reading various articles here regarding databases I have checked out what my web provider provides and find that MySQL is there but it would appear to be at the main domain level. So can I set up the database on my main domain and direct the osCommerce store on the subdomain to it. Or should I get separate hosting for the store doman and just run everything at the main domain level on that.

 

thanks,

 

Ian

[Guest]

Provided the permissions on your database allow you to connect across (most do, as they are still on the same server, just use localhost as the database server), you can set your store up anywhere you like.

 

However, redirecting a domain onto a sub domain is BAD for your seo. much better to just use the new domain, this will rank slightly better, and redirects all over the show really p**! robots off, and will make your life very difficult in terms of search engine rankings.