Getting rid of the wordpress from your url

  • Hi There,
    Im trying to get rid of the wordpress at the end of my url. At present when one logs into my site the url is socialme.ie./wordpress
    It is a self-hosted site and I have read https://codex.www.ads-software.com/Giving_WordPress_Its_Own_Directory
    I have also read a few support threads related to this topic and unfortunately still can’t work it out.
    I have logged into the ftp of the site and simply can’t understand the following instructions
    Create the new location for the core WordPress files to be stored (we will use /wordpress in our examples). (On linux, use mkdir wordpress from your www directory. You’ll probably want to use “chown apache:apache” on the wordpress directory you created.)
    Go to the General panel.

    Q1: Where do you create the new location for the core WordPress files to be stored.
    Q2: I’m using Linux what and where is mkdir wordpress and what is my www directory?
    Q3: What is chown apache:apache” and where is it located?
    Q4: Where is the General Panel?

    Would greatly appreciate some advice and feedback.

    Cheers,
    Colm

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  • Q1. If you’re wanting to move wp into your web server root, you don’t need to create a new location as it already exists.

    Q2. mkdir is a POSIX command line command to create a new directory. If you’re using an FTP client like FileZilla, you can create a new directory by right-clicking inside the directory and selecting the appropriate item from the context menu. However, since you don’t need to create a directory, you won’t need to do this. The www directory is the web root for a lot of Debian-based Linux distributions. It’s actually at /var/www. So it just means, “The Web Server root directory”.

    Q3. chown is another command line command. It means ‘CHange OWNer’. You don’t need to create a directory so you won’t have to do this.

    Q4. Dashboard –> Settings –> General.

    HTH

    PAE

    Thread Starter Socialme.ie

    (@socialmeie)

    Thanks for getting back to me.
    Im probably not understanding you correctly here.
    Do I just go to the general page on the settings of the wordpress dashboard and make changes here?
    On this page there is
    a wordpress url address and a site url address.
    Im lost here sorry?
    I assume I also got to change something on the ftp?

    Actually, I just followed your link. You’re not following the correct set of instructions. What you want to do if I understand you correctly is to move WordPress.

    HTH

    PAE

    Thread Starter Socialme.ie

    (@socialmeie)

    Thanks for replying again Peredur,
    Just to clarify in not tech speak im trying to change all urls on the site from socialme.ie/wordpress
    to socialme.ie
    I just can’t grasp how to do this from the instructions.
    Do I have to log in to the ftp of the site or just do it through the wordpress dashboard?
    Cheers,
    Colm

    There may be a way of doing what you want without moving WordPress, but I’m not aware of it. Possibly you could do it via .htaccess, but again, I don’t know how this would be done. The usual scenario is the one given at the end of the link I posted above (moving wordpress). You want to follow the instructions for Moving WordPress within your Site. If you don’t understand an instruction, post again, explaining which instruction you don’t understand.

    So what I’m suggesting is that you follow those instructions, which will involve you moving your installation from its current location into your server root (i.e. the location to which the url of your domain points). If anyone else knows how to achieve this without moving your file, I’m sure they’ll post.

    When the documentation talks about the WordPress core files, it means everything. Your whole WP installation. And when it talks about moving them, it means just that. Moving them, probably using your FTP software if you don’t have direct access to the server.

    If your site is anything other than a vanilla installation, it’s likely that you’ll have quite a bit of work to do. Especially in steps 11 to 14.

    I’ve only ever done it for vanilla installations.

    Cheers

    PAE

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