Changing WordPress URL for supages (masking? redirecting?)

See:

https://codex.www.ads-software.com/Giving_WordPress_Its_Own_Directory#Using_a_pre-existing_subdirectory_install

If I understand this correctly, you developed the site using https://www.site1.com/wpsitename. If so, simply changing the Site URL in General settings won’t change the links in database from “https://www.site1.com/wpsitename” to “https://www.site1.com/”. You need to use find and replace tool to fix this.

WPyogi: The only issue is that there is already an existing index.php file in the root directory. It is the small one page site that the client already has (www.site1.com) If I move my WP index.php won’t it overwrite it?

2bearstudio: I want the WP subpages to be https://www.wpsitename.com/subpage-whatever on all subpages. Right now they are https://www.site1.com/wpsitename/subpage-whatever

Sorry if I’m not asking this question right.

Right.

Use the find and replace tool to
find ” https://www.site1.com/wpsitename”, and
replace with: “https://www.wpsitename.com”

OK, I skipped the part about moving the index.php to the root and just changed the Site URL and then copy and pasted the updated permalink rewriterule in the .htaccess file. That worked. Thanks for pointing me in the right direction.

edit: oh ok, I see that the specific hard coded links are still not right. I will try the search and replace.