Moving and Upgrading

This article should help:
Giving_WordPress_Its_Own_Directory

Also look at Moving_WordPress

thanks for the reply.. I did come across these pages, so i think my questions come from the Giving_WordPress_Its_Own_Directory article… once i set up the wordpress and the blog urls’..and following the steps in that article, do i simply login to wordpress, and create a new ‘page’ and set this as the static homepage??

sorry if im confusing…im just confused how to get my new index as a part of wordpress

No, the static front page is really separate from the issue.

In you webroot folder you will have an index.php file that has require('./wordpress/wp-blog-header.php'); and then the actual wordpress files will be in the wordpress subfolder.

ok..i think im getting somewhere..since my blog already is in its own /blog/ directory, i simply have to copy the index.php file into the root directory of my site and change the line that says: require(‘./wp-blog-header.php’); to require(‘./wordpress/wp-blog-header.php’);

then i would simply have to create a new page in wpadmin and designate this page as the new static homepage?

require('./blog/wp-blog-header.php');

not

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

cool…thanks..ill let you know how it goes when i start to upgrade everything.

BACKUP BACKUP BACKUP before doing anything just in case.

ok..so i upgraded successfully and now im having problems setting up the static front page..

ive set up the homepage to view as a static front page, a test/temp page that i created..

my wordpress(url) is https://www.site.com/blog
my Blog address (URL): https://www.site.com

the .htacess in my blog folder is:

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

# END WordPress’

..with the index page in the /blog folder
‘<?php
/* Short and sweet */
define(‘WP_USE_THEMES’, true);
require(‘./wp-blog-header.php’);
?>’

.htaccess in site.com/ root:
‘# BEGIN WordPress
<IfModule mod_rewrite.c>
RewriteEngine On
RewriteBase /blog/
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-f
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-d
RewriteRule . /blog/index.php [L]
</IfModule>

# END WordPress’

and index in site.com/root:
<?php
/* Short and sweet */
define(‘WP_USE_THEMES’, true);
require(‘./blog/wp-blog-header.php’);
?>

so my question is…what do i need to change to get the static page to work and the /blog to show my blog posts….

sorry if there is any confusion here!

to clarify, as of right now with those settings, the site.com shows the static page…but when i type in site.com/blog then it is showing the static page too, and not my blog posts..

ok..i think i solved my own problem…I realized that with the static front page I had to create a page for my blog and under the reading-options tab, i had to redirect that to my ‘posts’…only then having to get a plugin for my permalinks to show not as the default (?p=23)..to a naming convention…(which should be the default!)

if anybody out there is reading this other than me…my last question is i was trying to edit a stylesheet of the default theme and it wasnt updating at all, but when i went into the theme editor in the wordpress admin and changed values there it worked.. the only thing i can think of is in the presentation tab, where you choose the theme, under broken themes it shows:

Name Description
Stylesheet is missing.

but no theme is given under the ‘name’..