Moving WP Install to “Top Level” of Site?

  • When I installed WP I did so to a folder called “WordPress” as I wasn’t sure I’d use it as the main tool for maintaining my site (https://wwww.iphonesatwork.com). Now I have decided that WP is the tool I want to use, how do I get it so that when people access https://wwww.iphonesatwork.com they go straight to WP’s index.php instead of my original site’s index.html?

    Right now I have a redirect on the .html index to the .php one but it make s for a lag of several seconds before the site appears.

    Thanks.

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  • See: https://codex.www.ads-software.com/Giving_WordPress_Its_Own_Directory

    Or instead see: https://codex.www.ads-software.com/Moving_WordPress

    Then remove or rename the root index.html.

    Thread Starter pab1953

    (@pab1953)

    Thanks. I’ll check out your references.

    Thread Starter pab1953

    (@pab1953)

    Re: https://iphonesatwork.com

    I was following the steps outlined in https://codex.www.ads-software.com/Moving_WordPress to move WP from its “wordpress” directory (hosted by GoDaddy, fwiw) to the root directory of the site. It seemed very straightforward but something must have gone wrong because the sire didn’t display. I thought, “That’s a nuisance. But no problem. I’ve backed-up the WP folder on my PC (in Dreamweaver) — I’ll just delete the apparently corrupt one and replace it with the backup and things will be back to normal.” Which I did. But things are most definitely not back to normal. Now I have no access to the site via the login nor is the index.php visible.

    The WP homepage (https://www.iphonesatwork.com/wordpress/index.php) now has this message: “Warning: Cannot modify header information – headers already sent by (output started at /home/content/i/p/h/iphonesatwork/html/wordpress/wp-content/themes/revolution-code-blue/functions.php:9) in /home/content/i/p/h/iphonesatwork/html/wordpress/wp-includes/pluggable.php on line 865”

    When I try to login, I get an unstyled page and these messages: “Warning: Cannot modify header information – headers already sent by (output started at /home/content/i/p/h/iphonesatwork/html/wordpress/wp-content/themes/revolution-code-blue/functions.php:9) in /home/content/i/p/h/iphonesatwork/html/wordpress/wp-login.php on line 287

    Warning: Cannot modify header information – headers already sent by (output started at /home/content/i/p/h/iphonesatwork/html/wordpress/wp-content/themes/revolution-code-blue/functions.php:9) in /home/content/i/p/h/iphonesatwork/html/wordpress/wp-login.php on line 299″

    Here’s what a post looks like now (this from a link I put out on Twitter earlier today): https://iphonesatwork.com/wordpress/?p=299

    ftp to site and rename plugins folder – this will deactivate them and let you log in
    rename plugins folder back to normal and activate plugins one by one until you find the one messing with you

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