Changing website url

  • I’ve been trying to install wordpress with network solutions for some time.

    NS sets up WordPress in a sub-directory instead of the root. I found through the www.ads-software.com help documents this document: https://codex.www.ads-software.com/Giving_WordPres…s_Own_Directory which mentions about moving the files to the root. NS put them in https://www.mydomain.com/wordpress1 Who the heck wants wordpress1 in their URL when they pay for https://www.mydomain.com. Honestly this is my first WordPress site so it’s a little bit of a learning curve for me. My question is: how do I remove the /wordpress1? I followed all the steps that NS gave me:

    First, I installed wordpress under the folder wordpress1 (you have to choose a folder because it doesn’t use the root directory. I did not click ‘use this folder as the wordpress homepage’.
    1. After installing wordpress I went into the dash board and changed the url in the settings from https://www.mydomain.com/wordpress1 to https://www.mydomain.com
    2. I logged back into NS and changed the directory of the site to https://www.mydomain.com//htdocs/wordpress1
    3. I waited and nothing happened

    I talked to several techs and finally they passed me to someone who flat out said I could pay $59 to premium support and they would do it for me. Needless to say, their customer service support is AWFUL.

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  • I did not click ‘use this folder as the wordpress homepage’.

    That is precisely what you should have done ?? Had you done so, you would access it with the domain name only.

    NS sets it up this way in order to keep the root of the account “tidy” for when you add more sites to it; each in their own folder.

    As I am not familiar with NS’s hosting control panel, I can’t say how to fix this, but on plans that uses cPanel (a brand name of hosting control panel), you would simply create a new “Add on Domain”.

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