: How do I know whether a site is a daughter site of another? Given http://www.ocfaustralia.org/ and site 2 http://griffith.ocfaustralia.org/, is there a way for me to tell whether site 2 is a

@Cody1181609

I need to check for dependancies
before pulling the plug.


Yes, you certainly do - and unless you are willing to review the content in place at ocfaustralia.org for any shared databases, include files, stylesheets, images (et cetera) hosted under the griffith.ocfaustralia.org subdomain, I would strongly suggest that you hold off on taking anything down until you have figured out all the dependencies or implemented (and tested) a complete replacement.

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@Welton855

In your example "griffith" is a sub-domain of "ocfaustrailia.org". You could remove all the content from the ocf site and be fine with griffith. If your domain name for ocf were to expire or go down, then you would have issues.

You can set up mydomain.com as a primary domain, then set up client1.mydomain.com, client2.mydomain.com, blog.mydomain.com etc. They are all independent sites, usually set up with their own root folder similar to... (*nix hosts)

/public_html/index.html (this is home for mydomain.com)
/public_html/client1/index.html (this is home for client 1)
/public_html/client2/index.html (this is home for client 2)
/public_html/blog/index.html (this is home for blog)

So long as you don't remove the directory in your /public_html/ for your sub domains, the files will remain. The setup for domain name structure is handled via DNS entries. Many ISPs have control panels like cPanel to help you set this up.

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@Cugini213

This is not possible to determine without examining the source code. Not only do you have to worry about the servers things are on and database connections, but you never know when another site might be relying on a feed of sorts from the first site.

Check the source code.

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