Moving website from Subdirectory to Root directory

  • Hello. I have a simple question that you smart people should be able to help me with. This is my first site using wordpress. I’m unable to come up with the answer in the articles.

    Here’s my configuration:

    My website is set up as “example.com.” This is through IX hosting. This is where I have copied all my word press files to via FTP.

    Settings>General says my wordpress address is example.com/home

    Problem: If I set my site address as example.com as desired I get an “under construction” page from my web host on example.com

    However, if I set the site address to “example.com/home” in the site address section in settings>general it will show up correctly, however under the undesirable example.com/home URL.

    I am guessing I need to change some file or files or my database or something to make my example.com my main page.

    Can someone help?

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  • Using FTP, look for a file called index.html, index.htm or something like that in your “web root” directory. Delete it. That is where the Under Construction message is coming from.

    Test and be sure that the Under Construction no longer appears.

    Then follow these instructions to make WordPress look like it is running from the root: https://codex.www.ads-software.com/Giving_WordPress_Its_Own_Directory#Using_a_pre-existing_subdirectory_install

    Thread Starter indiestylee

    (@indiestylee)

    I’ll go ahead and give that a shot

    Thread Starter indiestylee

    (@indiestylee)

    I first deleted that index.html file. No luck there. Same error message.

    Then I followed “Moving a Root install to its own directory”

    This meant I copied all the files from my example.com/home folder into example.com/wordpress folder.

    At this point I realized I am already in a subdirectory, but I did it anyway because the result should be the same. My wordpress should be chilling in a subdirectory and my main page should simply be example.com.

    Anyway, I followed all steps through the end of “Using a pre-existing subdirectory install” and I’m in the same boat. If I rename the Site address I lose connection to my wordpress site altogether until I modify the footer.php in my example.com/home/wp-content/themes/{theme} folder.

    Now I’m back where I started but have two subdirectories with the WP stuffs in it. It seems like wordpress and/or my site does not like to be pointed to the example.com root directory no matter which subdirectory it is in. So I have to be doing something wrong

    First step is to get rid of the “under construction” page. Each web host is different. I couldn’t find any info on your web host’s support pages, so you are going to have to ask them how to get rid of the under construction page.

    Once that is done, then the index.php file you inserted in the root as part of the documentation I referred to initially, should then be used whenever you just type your domain name.

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