installing wordpress in subfolder next to old other site

  • Hi All,

    It’s my first time installing wordpress and i was just wondering how i get wordpress to work in the following scenario:
    I have a general site that i want to keep in the root. WordPress is in a subfolder and does not have to be linked in any way to the root-nonwordpress-site. But without me putting and wordpress index.php in the root the site won’t work. It’s actually showing data and text from my root-nonwordpress-site.

    I’ve seen a lot of info on moving the install, installing several versions of wordpress or putting it in a subfolder (while still working from the root) But i haven’t really found my anwser.

    Thanks a lot in advance!

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  • My best guess would be that something in the custom CMS is rewriting urls – thus creating a problem in WordPress.

    Thread Starter mariachi

    (@mariachi)

    With .htacces you mean?

    And doesnt wordpress need his own index.php in the root? Or should it just work like this?

    With .htacces you mean?

    Yep. Any rewrite rules in the root folder could be redirecting page requests well before they get to WordPress.

    sorry – just a post to discontinue following the thread via email

    Thread Starter mariachi

    (@mariachi)

    ah wel in that case it shouldn’t be the .htacces. I’ve delete any reweriting (wasn’t usijng it anyways) and commented all .htacces rules to test. Still no luck. I think i’ll download a new wp install and try it on a empty server.

    thanks for the info

    Thread Starter mariachi

    (@mariachi)

    tried a new 3.4 install on a empty server and that worked just fine.
    Gues i’ll never know what went wrong with the 3.2.2 version,

    cheers

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