Directory being created

Site url? WordPress doesn’t stores posts in directories. All of your site’s content is stored in your database.

Hey Esmi,

Allaboutchris.org and Allaboutchris.org/blog.

No, I understand that its not flat file. What I mean is that a htaccess set to use friendly urls, with all posts under blog/2011/post-title will break if the blog/ directory actually exists!

Agreed. You’ll need to use a different sub-directory for the second site.

Sorry? I don’t have a second site.

There is one install in a subdirectory – I’ve not posted it here since the whole reason its there is for safety to reduce hacking – but imagine its allaboutchris.org/wpinstall.

I have that set up using htaccess and an index file in root to appear that the site is installed at allaboutchris.org, with pages at allaboutchris.org/pagename and blog posts under allaboutchris.org/blog.

However, something keeps creating an actual folder under /blog, which thus ends up breaking the .htaccess code. Any idea what process would be creating a blank directory?

Get rid of your changes and see Giving_WordPress_Its_Own_Directory.

I just linked to that above – “set up using htaccess and an index file in root“. That’s the method I used.

It breaks because a blank directory keeps being created.

Are you using multisite?

Where is WordPress installed on your domain?

Hey guys, sorry for the slow reply.

I am not using multisite. I have briefly had a seperate WPMS install set up in a subdirectory, which I thought could cause the problem, but I have uninstalled that, and my base install is standard WP.

WordPress is installed in a subdirectory. In the interest of security, lets say its at allaboutchris.org/wordp – its not, but its in a similar directory.

My hosts have given me the log, saying :

drwxr-xr-x 2 aachris aachris 4096 Oct 6 17:47 blog/

The user and group on the folder was your user and group, so it sounds like something within the WordPress is possibly creating the folder.

Does that help?

Any ideas guys?

I could kill them with a cron job every minute, but that’s far from ideal…

Exact same issue here: https://www.ads-software.com/support/topic/empty-blog-folder-being-created-disrupting-permalink

Still not resolved. Any ideas guys?