# Migrate discourse from main domain --\> subdomain

**URL:** <https://meta.discourse.org/t/migrate-discourse-from-main-domain-subdomain/312424>\
**Category:** Self-hosting\
**Created:** [June 17, 2024, 5:06pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/migrate-discourse-from-main-domain-subdomain/312424 "2024-06-17T17:06:47Z")\
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**Author:** ![nathank](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/meta/user_avatar/meta.discourse.org/nathank/32/290039_2.png) [@nathank](https://meta.discourse.org/u/nathank)\
**Post date:** [June 18, 2024, 5:13am UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/migrate-discourse-from-main-domain-subdomain/312424/4 "2024-06-18T05:13:55Z")

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> [@Timothy\_Vail](#):
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> I simply want to move my discourse to a subdomain, after finding out it would not work to have it on the main domain.

I’m curious about what fatal problem you have run into. I’ve run self-hosted instances both ways, and quite like running it on the main domain for simplicity reasons - and have done without obvious issues.

There are a few posts / topics on [meta.discourse.org](http://meta.discourse.org) warning you off doing so, but to my relatively uneducated eye these appear to be based on dogma/theory rather than real world issues. Perhaps I’ve just been lucky.

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