As soon as I change website address, many sites not available anymore

What do you mean by wordpress address?

wordpress address where your files are located and website address where your url shoud be located, otherwise its the same wordpress address. ??

You can set different address in the dashboard settings -> general

Thanks!

I don’t understand what you mean when you separate your website’s address with WordPress’ address. They are the same thing.

Hi Andrew,

you can locate your wordpress in a sub-folder but let the website address in the main address.

https://codex.www.ads-software.com/Changing_The_Site_URL

Oh I see. Does your WordPress installation exist at the root of the new site address?

well, the wordpress installation is located in a sub-folder /site (https://www.emdia.eu/site), but my url should be just https://www.emdia.eu w/o /site and unfortunately it doesnt work.

Try to add in the ftp root (outside the directory site/) a .htaccess file with this content:

RewriteEngine On
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_URI} !^/site
RewriteRule ^(.*)$ site/$1 [L]

And set WordPress address and Site Address to the desired url:
Inside the directory site/ inside file wp-config.php before mySQL settings add:

define('WP_HOME','https://www.emdia.eu');
define('WP_SITEURL','https://www.emdia.eu');

Hi steplab,

I will try as soon as my another problem is solved. I cannot login to my dashboard anymore cause of an error message.

Cheers,
Ernesto

Unfortunately it doesnt work. It says error 500 as soon as I edited htaccess file. I did not just add the code lines above, I rewrite the content of the file with the codes you delivered. Maybe thats my fault?

Cheers steplab!

Hi Ernesto,
Yes the .htaccess with that code.

/.htaccess

RewriteEngine On
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_URI} !^/site
RewriteRule ^(.*)$ site/$1 [L]

/site/wp-config.php
You also edited the wp-config.php file? Instead for this file you have to “ADD” before mySQL settings rows

define('WP_HOME','https://www.emdia.eu');
define('WP_SITEURL','https://www.emdia.eu');

If this not work try also:

define('WP_HOME','https://www.emdia.eu/site/');
define('WP_SITEURL','https://www.emdia.eu');

/site/.htaccess

# BEGIN WordPress
<IfModule mod_rewrite.c>
RewriteEngine On
RewriteBase /
RewriteRule ^index\.php$ - [L]
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-f
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-d
RewriteRule . /index.php [L]
</IfModule>
# END WordPress

Hope this helps you

Bye,
Valentina

Hi Valentina,

thanks for your support. I tried both and unfortunately I got

Internal Server Error

The server encountered an internal error or misconfiguration and was unable to complete your request.

Please contact the server administrator at to inform them of the time this error occurred, and the actions you performed just before this error.

More information about this error may be available in the server error log.

Additionally, a 500 Internal Server Error error was encountered while trying to use an ErrorDocument to handle the request.

Something is wrong with my configuration I guess. I really dont know where to start to look in. Maybe any suggestion?

Thank you very much!