htaccess Rewrite

Here is the page to read:
https://codex.www.ads-software.com/Giving_WordPress_Its_Own_Directory

I strongly recommend that you consider an alternative approach, described in the “Using a pre-existing subdirectory install” section of the same page. I’ve been using it for about 6 years now, and find it much more flexible, less error-prone, etc.

Hi thanks for your answer.

I definitely changed my mind.

Now i made a copy of the website and the db in the main root public_html.

So i have 2 copy of the website, both working. How can i redirect properly with 301 wordpress from

https://www.mywebsite.com/TEST
to
https://www.mywebsite.com

I used a simple .htaccess in the folder /TEST
redirect 301 / https://www.mywebsite.com

but it redirect the website wrong with this result:

typing https://www.mywebsite.com/TEST
i get
https://www.mywebsite.comTEST

Is there any better option to redirect? please

RewriteOptions inherit

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

# END WordPress

this is the original htaccess in the folder /TEST
thanks

As I said, I hate playing around with .htaccess except to set php options on web servers that don’t allow php.ini changes.

The aforementioned “Using a pre-existing subdirectory install” section explains a much cleaner way to handle things: have just one copy of WordPress, installed in a folder, and have all the links look like you are “running from the root”.

There are plugins that change all your links for you, avoiding the need to do any redirections in .htaccess.

Again, just my experience and opinion.