# Two RW "projects" for same domain, one for a sub-site?

**URL:** <https://forums.realmacsoftware.com/t/two-rw-projects-for-same-domain-one-for-a-sub-site/31669>\
**Category:** RapidWeaver Classic\
**Created:** [March 10, 2020, 11:14pm UTC](https://forums.realmacsoftware.com/t/two-rw-projects-for-same-domain-one-for-a-sub-site/31669 "2020-03-10T23:14:23Z")\
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**Author:** ![David\_See](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/ecb155/32.png) [@David\_See](https://forums.realmacsoftware.com/u/David_See)\
**Post date:** [March 10, 2020, 11:14pm UTC](https://forums.realmacsoftware.com/t/two-rw-projects-for-same-domain-one-for-a-sub-site/31669/1 "2020-03-10T23:14:24Z")

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Hello everyone, this my first post in the Community. I’ve tried searching for my issue but didn’t quite find a discussion on point.

I have a personal website to promote myself as a freelancer. I also have private pages for my family, with a family tree, family photos, etc. I used to use LockDown to password-protect those pages but LockDown has reached end of life. My ISP offers password protection for directories so I’m handling the security that way.

However, the issue I have is: I want the family pages to work like a separate site, with their own navigation links, not overlapping with my main website’s navigation links, and with a separate theme and resources. I don’t want to have to re-publish my main site’s pages if I add something to the family pages, and vice versa. I want them to function separately.

So I’ve set up a second project in Rapidweaver. My main site uploads to my\_domain/ and my family site uploads to my\_domain/family. (I’ve password-protected the “family” directory.) That folder has its own designated home page with filename index.html.

Is there any reason this wouldn’t work as long as I confine the family-pages files to the /family directory? Am I going to run into any problems with having two rw\_common folders on the server, one in the home directory and one in /family? Any conflicts likely to arise?

I’m sure I’m not the first to want to do this. Thoughts on best practices?

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**Author:** ![swilliam](https://dub1.discourse-cdn.com/flex005/user_avatar/forums.realmacsoftware.com/swilliam/32/14799_2.png) [@swilliam](https://forums.realmacsoftware.com/u/swilliam)\
**Post date:** [March 11, 2020, 1:05am UTC](https://forums.realmacsoftware.com/t/two-rw-projects-for-same-domain-one-for-a-sub-site/31669/2 "2020-03-11T01:05:14Z")

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The best thing to do is set up a subdomain. [Family.yoursite.com](http://Family.yoursite.com) that makes it completely separated

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**Author:** ![Fuellemann](https://dub1.discourse-cdn.com/flex005/user_avatar/forums.realmacsoftware.com/fuellemann/32/22871_2.png) [@Fuellemann](https://forums.realmacsoftware.com/u/Fuellemann)\
**Post date:** [March 11, 2020, 5:55am UTC](https://forums.realmacsoftware.com/t/two-rw-projects-for-same-domain-one-for-a-sub-site/31669/3 "2020-03-11T05:55:09Z")

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Apart from using a subdomain, your approach will work. I am using this as well for many sites.

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**Author:** ![system](https://dub1.discourse-cdn.com/flex005/user_avatar/forums.realmacsoftware.com/system/32/25301_2.png) [@system](https://forums.realmacsoftware.com/u/system)\
**Post date:** [April 10, 2020, 3:55pm UTC](https://forums.realmacsoftware.com/t/two-rw-projects-for-same-domain-one-for-a-sub-site/31669/4 "2020-04-10T15:55:19Z")

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