Re: forum.example.com or example.com/forum ? What do you prefer?
Reply #1 – January 01, 2015, 12:28:22 pm
I prefer domain.com/forum May be because it is too easy to install in a folder.
Re: forum.example.com or example.com/forum ? What do you prefer?
Reply #2 – January 01, 2015, 02:23:06 pm
I've done it both ways so it somewhat depends on the circumstances. I've used forum.x.x mostly when the forum was on a different host from the main site. I think users do not tend to enter forum.x x in to the address bar, What they are used to is entering the base site, www.x.x or just x.x and navigate to the forum.
Re: forum.example.com or example.com/forum ? What do you prefer?
Reply #4 – January 22, 2015, 07:17:11 am
I used to be example.com/forum , however lately I have been serving each individual web service on it's own subdomain so I can do different things with SSL. eg. with example.com/forum and example.com/blog They both have to be SSL if example.com is SSL, whereas:forum.example.com and blog.example.com They both are considered separate entities and can be configured individually. I currently have my forum completely delivered over SSL, and my blog only has the admin interface over SSL, the rest is standard HTTP. I also don't think example.com/forum is really all that useful unless you integrate all the services (eg have all of the services using the same framework). Ideally I would like to have 1 software for example.com which deals with forum / blog / everything else (and can import my wordpress / forum / wiki).