My main page is domain.com/folder and not domain.com, HELP!

Well documented:
https://codex.www.ads-software.com/Moving_WordPress

access your WordPress database via phpMyAdmin and manually check, in the wp_options table, the siteurl and home values and make sure they are correct.

I think we tried this and broke our site: https://lurkerspath.com/word/

Now we have no idea how to access the admin page?
Did we do something wrong? :\

This is going to sound incredibly dumb but this has us really stumped. We’ve essentially got things back to front to your link t-p, and each time we do it – we lose access to our admin access/the site goes crazy.

You can probably tell this is our first experiment with WordPress, but any help is appreciated.

If you changed the URL’s as t-p stated then you will need to fix the URL’ through the website. Think he did not understand that you were not istalled in the root when you said you WANTED it in the root. changing the URL’s does not move WP.
You need to actually MOVE WP as per the directions in the link I gave you.

For some reason webjunk – I still cant get this too work.
Is there a way to alter the URL so https://www.lurkerspath.com directs to where https://www.lurkerspath.com/word is directing WITHOUT moving wordpress across files?

OK, all done – here is my new error message:

Warning: require(word/wp-blog-header.php) [function.require]: failed to open stream: No such file or directory in /home/lurkhcom/public_html/word/wp-admin/index.php on line 17

Warning: require(word/wp-blog-header.php) [function.require]: failed to open stream: No such file or directory in /home/lurkhcom/public_html/word/wp-admin/index.php on line 17

Fatal error: require() [function.require]: Failed opening required ‘word/wp-blog-header.php’ (include_path=’.:/usr/lib/php:/usr/local/lib/php’) in /home/lurkhcom/public_html/word/wp-admin/index.php on line 17

what did i do?

OK, not quite sure where you are up to with your changes.

From the beginning after fresh install:

1. FTP to installed folder (lurkerspath.com/word)

2. copy index.php to root folder (lurkerspath.com)

3. edit lurkerspath.com/index.php

Where it says
/** Loads the WordPress Environment and Template */
require(‘./wp-blog-header.php’);

Change it to
require(‘word/wp-blog-header.php’);

4. log into WordPress panel Settings > General

Look for “Site address (URL)”
Set the address to https://www.lurkerspath.com

Save your settings.
Should be sweet now.

I always install WorPress in a folder, so am used to this.

PS No need to move anything.
Just add the index file and change the paths ??