index.php outside of WP directory?

Thanks for trying Ryan!
Snowgoon–will upgrading to 1.3 be easy? I’m very scared of upgrading–it’s taken weeks of tweaking to get my site as good as it is (still not perfect). I don’t want to have to go and tweak it all again for another few weeks.

thepete:
I still haven’t gotten a chance to look and see if it can be backported to 1.2. I’m not sure if you want to try and upgrade to an alpha version in a production environment just to be able to edit your index file outside of your wp directory. Personally, I’m not sure I would just for that. Right now I’m content to drag it to my desktop via ftp, edit it in dreamweaver and throw it back on the server.

i use interarchy for ftp and it has a neat little “edit in” contextual menu which ihave set to subethaedit. i can then effectively edit it ‘live’ on the server

Sorry, no movement on this. Tried to upgrade to a later build. Failed spectacularly.
I’m gonna wait until the official 1.3 is out, and hope the upgrade isn’t too arduous and is well documented.

Yikes–well, I don’t want to upgrade until it’s definitely stable. I had enough trouble just figuring out how/why everything does what it does. Still, I’ll never look back to Greymatter. WP is a whole new world. (cue Disney music). Anyway, thanks for the advice. For now I edit it in WP then FTP it to my desktop and back to the right directory. C’est la vie…

Thanks, Idowen! I’ve been looking all over for this!

pete – you don’t actually NEED to have the index.php in the WP directory. I’ve stopped copying in there as I just edit it locally and upload it where my URI expects it to be (root in my case).

You only need index.php in the WP directory if you want to edit it through the WP Admin interface.

Of course I still think this is a bug – but we’ll see what 1.5 brings.

Actually, other things don’t work when the index.php isn’t in the WP folder–for instance, the little “edit” link doesn’t show up. I also have the awesome MicroWiki plugin by Owen Winkler installed and that doesn’t work outside of the WP plugin and neither does the ViewCount plugin from Rich Boakes. Now I’m wondering what kind of nightmare I’m in for if I try to move everything in the WP directory into my root. I’ll have to look around the forums for some more on this. If anyone has advice on doing this or on why the above problems happen, I’d really love to hear it ??

I tried to do the index.php in my root trick as described here:
https://www.ads-software.com/docs/installation/different-address/

But I get the following errors:

Warning: main(./wp-blog-header.php): failed to open stream: No such file or directory in /Library/WebServer/Documents/wordpress/wp-content/themes/classic/index.php on line 2

Fatal error: main(): Failed opening required ‘./wp-blog-header.php’ (include_path=’.:/usr/lib/php’) in /Library/WebServer/Documents/wordpress/wp-content/themes/classic/index.php on line 2

Can anyone help?
Thanks

Arlo ::

just had the same troubles following the same instructions… try adding another “.” in the address, like this

require(‘../wordpress/wp-blog-header.php’);

NOT

require(‘./wordpress/wp-blog-header.php’);

This should fix it.

Perfect thanks!