{"id":7185,"date":"2019-05-30T04:35:39","date_gmt":"2019-05-30T04:35:39","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.milesweb.in\/hosting-faqs\/?p=7185"},"modified":"2019-05-31T04:37:29","modified_gmt":"2019-05-31T04:37:29","slug":"use-the-wildcard-subdomains","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.milesweb.in\/hosting-faqs\/use-the-wildcard-subdomains\/","title":{"rendered":"Steps to Use the Wildcard Subdomains"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>When you want to redirect all visitors to your main website regardless of the subdomain through which they access your website, Wildcard subdomains play a key role.<\/p>\n<p>Simply speaking, when a wildcard subdomain is used to access your site either via ww.yourdomain.com or wwwwww.yourdomain.com, it won\u2019t matter at all. This means that they will still be taken to the home page.<\/p>\n<p>To create a Wildcard subdomain, follow the below steps:<\/p>\n<p>\u2022 Log in to cPanel.<\/p>\n<p>\u2022 Navigate to <strong>Subdomains<\/strong>.<\/p>\n<p>\u2022 Type in <strong>*<\/strong> in the <strong>&#8220;subdomain&#8221;<\/strong> field.<\/p>\n<p>\u2022 Select <strong>yourdomain.com<\/strong> from the drop-down list.<\/p>\n<p>\u2022 Ensure that you select the same <strong>Document Root<\/strong> for the<strong> Wildcard subdomain<\/strong> as the one for <strong>yourdomain.com<\/strong>.<\/p>\n<p>So, your wildcard subdomain will be <strong>*.yourdomain.com<\/strong> and will have the same <strong>Directory Root<\/strong> (if it isn\u2019t defined otherwise) as yourdomain.com.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>When you want to redirect all visitors to your main website regardless of the subdomain through which they access your website, Wildcard subdomains play a key role. 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