# Can you use "www" for the install subdomain?

**URL:** <https://meta.discourse.org/t/can-you-use-www-for-the-install-subdomain/20496>\
**Category:** Self-hosting\
**Created:** [September 26, 2014, 9:22am UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/can-you-use-www-for-the-install-subdomain/20496 "2014-09-26T09:22:30Z")\
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**Author:** ![codinghorror](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/meta/user_avatar/meta.discourse.org/codinghorror/32/110067_2.png) [@codinghorror](https://meta.discourse.org/u/codinghorror)\
**Post date:** [September 26, 2014, 7:44pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/can-you-use-www-for-the-install-subdomain/20496/2 "2014-09-26T19:44:04Z")

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Yes, Discourse can work as

`example.com`  
`www.example.com`

However, I don’t recommend this unless you are 100% **ABSOLUTELY** sure you will never, ever, ever run anything else on that domain name.

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