Giving WordPress its Own Directory While Leaving Your Blog in the Root Directory

Thank You MichaelH
That helps I was pretty sure that was what I needed to do
most of my confusion stems from not being familiar with the Cpanel interface.
Thank Again
Pen Master

Holy cow! This was fun – about an hour to get it right but MichaelH’s tips worked best in the end. Thanks for your help!

How about this.

I want wordpress installed in my root (mysite.com). But instead of my blog landing page I want a page that looks different to my blogs theme. I have tried the static page option but all this gives is my landing page inside the theme when I’ve pasted my html code for the static page.

I don’t want to create an index.html because this might cause some confusion with seo indexing both index.php and index.html

Can i have wordpress installed in my root (mysite.com) and rename the wordpress file index.php to say index1.php so my landing page will be index.php or will this confuse wordpress?

Do you know what the best option is for this situation?

Thanks for anyone’s help…

stompy

and rename the wordpress file index.php to say index1.php
No, you can not!
As it was stated above in this thread (by HandySolo) WP needs its index to be named index. Nothing else.

Creating a Page template (see Pages) should solve your issue.

I have worked at the instructions in Giving_WordPress_Its_Own_Directory referring to suggestions here. I eventually got it to the point where my Admin panel opens fine but when I click on “view site” I am directed to a login for my control panel.

I had trouble following the instructions so that may be the problem.
My difficulties included:
#7 Copy the index.php and .htaccess files from the WordPress directory into the root directory of your site (Blog address).

There are several index.php files (I know because I looked through most of the site for the .htaccess file) so I used the one from the main WordPress directory – I assume that is correct. The instructions say copy – does that mean a copy should remain in the WordPress directory?

There was no .htaccess file in the WP directory so I uploaded one from another site and changed the site name info. But when I access the remote location from my FTP client it doesn’t show in the list of files – maybe that’s typical. It does show up inside my backup file on my desktop.

Would either of these actions result in the above problem?

I have read about “pointing a domain to a host” but don’t know what that means or how to do it. If that’s the problem could you please point me to some instructions. Thanks

I followed the instructions found at https://codex.www.ads-software.com/Giving_WordPress_Its_Own_Directory completely.

Currently, my blog is in the /blog subdirectory, but I want to change the root index to be the blog root index. So, these instructions were perfect, or so I thought.

After I changed them, I discovered something: the blog posts were not being pulled from the database, some of the CSS was not coming through correctly yet some was. I’m not sure what to do.

I forgot to show what I mean.

Here’s how the blog index should look, and does look, in the subdirectory (www.domain.com/blog/):
Correct version

Here’s how it looks when I have the core files in the subdirectory and use WP’s main index as the domain’s root index:
Incorrect version

Please help me! I can’t figure out how to have a separate wordpress folder while keeping my blog at my main domain.

alexanderrmorrow

Posting in multiple threads with the same question is discouraged.

Please see: https://www.ads-software.com/support/topic/152713?replies=7