blog home page placement

yeah install into a folder and then move the index.php from that folder into your root

then most all the links are incorrect

try editing the index.php and add the install folder name in this case the folder is wordpress

<?php
session_start();
/* Short and sweet */
define('WP_USE_THEMES', true);
require('./wordpress/wp-blog-header.php');
?>

I have edited that, it’s the permalinks that are all missing the “blog” folder in the link.. They are now like this:

https://www.website.com/?p=1#comments

when they need to be like this:

https://www.website.com/blog/?p=1#comments

Does that make any sense?? I don’t even know if they are all permalinks, but in most that I see that are incorrect the code this:

a href"<?php the_permalink() ?>"....

yeah when you moved into the root you lose the install folder as part of the link

you could write a custom permalink and start with /blog

That would be awesome if you could point me into the right direction to put that in at.. I found the the_permalink() function in the link-template.php file… Is that where I would need to make those changes, or is there a better place to change all permalinks??

Thanks for all the help..

its under options >> permalinks

fourth option is custom

Yeah sorry.. I found it.. I though you were meaning to manually change the code.. I forgot about that feature.. But maybe you can help me now.. Since I did that using this code:

/blog/%postname%/

I now get that “500 Internal Server Error”. I’ve tried a few things off this page, but nothing seems to help.. Any ideas??

if wordpress is installed in /blog/ you might try renaming that folder to something else. might want to change the wordpress url in options first.

I may way off base, but do you happen to have a folder named ‘blog’? I’m wondering if the error isn’t caused by there be no such folder.

Just a guess.

I have a folder named blog in the root directory with all the wordpress files inside except for index.php.. That is in the root directory outside of the blog folder..

I think my error has something to do with the .htaccess file.. I have to be doing something wrong.. It’s all about the 500..

Finally got it! Wow.. Well at least now it works the way I wanted..

I set my permalink to this:

/blog/%category%/%postname%

and had to manually edit the .htaccess file from

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

# END WordPress

to

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

# END WordPress

Never had to touch the chmod, but it is now at default of 644 I believe..

Whooohooo!! Fun stuff!