Folder Structure on Web Host

  • I’m having a little difficulty getting started.

    I have four websites with the same host and wish to host four blogs in subdirectories under the hosts, like this:
    https://www.blue.com/blog
    https://www.green.com/blog
    https://www.orange.com/blog
    https://www.red.com/blog

    Although I understand I can upload the WordPress files to the root directory, I’ve decided it will be cleaner to upload four copies to the four “blog” directories — no problem, unlimited space.

    I have tried uploading to “blog” but I see that my “install.php” file is expected in the “wp-admin” folder. Where does that come from? In unzipping the WordPress.zip, no subfolders are created,

    My next venture was to create the “wp-admin” folder myself and move all the WordPress files to that folder. Still no luck finding the “install.php” file, following this installation advice: “If you installed into a subdirectory called blog, you would visit https://example.com/blog/wp-admin/install.php.

    When I open “install.php”, I see the syntax “../wp-admin/install.php” which means, if I’m typing in “https://www.blue.com/blog/wp-admin/install.php” as the instructions state, it wants to go up a directory? I am confused.

    Three questions come to mind:
    1. Where does the “my-admin” folder come from? Do you manually create it as I have?
    2. Where do I put the WordPress files if I want my blog to be in “www.blue.com/blog”?
    3. Do ALL files go into “blog” or “wp-admin”? Or are some in one and some in the other?

    I’m stopping now before this becomes a book.

    Thanks very much.

    Don

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  • When you unzip the download, it should form a folder called ‘wordpress’ and in that there are 4 folders + several files.
    Check that your unzipping is preserving the folder structure.

    Once you have that sorted, then upload everything inside the ‘wordpress’ folder to inside the ‘blog’ folder.
    You seem to have everything else spot on.

    What utility are you using to unzip ?

    Thread Starter donellis

    (@donellis)

    Ah… I wondered why I’m not getting a folder structure. I’m using Powerdesk, which generally displays internal folders — don’t know what’s wrong. Guess I need to go get WinZip.

    This is my first post… before I downloaded WordPress I checked out the support forum. It looked good then and thanks to you it couldn’t be better.

    Thanks very much.

    Don

    Glad I was of help ??

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    Thread Starter donellis

    (@donellis)

    DONE! Thank you very much.

    Don

    Thread Starter donellis

    (@donellis)

    Ok, maybe not DONE… I’m sure there will be more questions as I move along but at least the vehicle is on the road. Now to look for themes and figure out how they work.

    Cheers,

    Don

    Themes: https://themes.wordpress.net/

    Thread Starter donellis

    (@donellis)

    Thanks again… I am very pleased with the software and the community here.

    Cheers,

    Don

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