The live site is installed in myurl.com/wordpress and the dev site is installed in myurl.com/wp.

• The site url and home url are correct in both setups
• Both sites use separate databases with different table prefixes, and as yet there is only default content in the dev database
• There are .htaccess files in both the myurl.com/wp and myurl.com/wordpress directories but none in the root directory.
• Both sites were installed manually so there should be no server re-directs in play that may have resulted if installed via the control panel
• Tests have proven that myurl.com/wp/wp-login.php is being used for logon
• wp-login.php returns the following values

• DIRECTORY /var/www/vhosts/myurl.com/httpdocs/wp
• HTTP HOST myurl.com
• REQUEST URI /wp/wp-login.php
• NETWORK SITE URL https://myurl.com/wp

Does anyone have any ideas as why I am being re-directed?

Thanks.

Hope all is well!

Please update the .htaccess file of the dev site and replace the rules with the below lines

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

Where /wp/ is the folder name, wher eteh devlopemtn opy is installed.

Otherwise, please also try this solution:
https://geekflare.com/redirect-subfolder-to-root-folder/

Hope this helps!

Cheers,
Nastia

Thanks for your prompt reply. I have tried both solutions but unfortunately without success.

What do you think is happening to cause the redirect to the live site?

Thanks.

DirectoryIndex /wordpress/index.php

So I guess whatever calls the domain is going to get shunted into the /wordpress directory of the live site and not the /wp directory of the dev site.

I will ponder a solution.

DirectoryIndex /wordpress/index.php

to

DirectoryIndex index.htm

I can no longer run the script /wordpress/index.php – you do not have permission..
Yet I can run /wordpress/hello.php. Both files have exactly the same permissions, owners and group.

This is probably an apache issue but if anyone here knows the answer I would be grateful to here.

Thanks.

In the apache config file;

DirectoryIndex /wordpress/index.php

has been changed to

DirectoryIndex index.htm

Additional directives were added;

<Directory /var/www/vhosts/mydomain.com/httpdocs/wp>
Options +ExecCGI
DirectoryIndex index.php
</Directory>

<Directory /var/www/vhosts/mydomain.com/httpdocs/wordpress>
Options +ExecCGI
DirectoryIndex index.php
</Directory>

An index.htm document was added to the root directory with a redirect to send live users to /wordpress/index.php

In the dev site the pretty permalinks had to be set to the default – mydomain.com/wp/?page_id=2

Live users get directed to the live site when they type in the domain, I can access my development site simply by adding /wp onto the domain.

I have been able to logon and create a couple of pages and to see these via the web.

I anyone knows of a tidier solution please let me know but this will do for now.

Cheers.