: Multiple IPs/webservers, single domain Our main website is on a Windows server. We're migrating our Blogger blog to WordPress and I think I want to use a Linux-based webhost instead of our Windows

@Heady270

If it is on a different server, the easiest course of action is to use a subdomain like blog.mymainsite.com/articles/article-number-one There is very little SEO difference between hosting your blog on a subdomain or as a folder in the main domain.

Since you state that you don't want to use a subdomain, it is possible but it requires significantly more configuration. You will need to use a "reverse proxy" on your your Windows server to make it appear as if the documents from your Linux server were actually a subdirectory on your Windows server. Here is a Microsoft blog post that tells you how to set it up.

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@Marchetta884

Yes it is absolutely possible. Use mod_rewrite module on Apache to rewrite the URLs.

And if the old URL is on a sub domain and different to the new URLs use .htacess to redirect permanently. If both URLs exist then use the canonical tag to tell the search engines which one to index. That is the standard practice and no penalties involved.

Also change the category base to articles if need be.

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