Permalinks on moved installation

  • Bob Wagstaff

    (@bob-wagstaff)


    7 years ago

    I’ve installed WP in a subdirectory and then recreated the htaccess and an amended index.php files in my root directory. I’ve changed the website address in general settings.

    If I change the permalinks to Postname, on typing the web address to the root, it redirects to the subdirectory and produces a 404 Page Not Found error. You can then navigate to all the necessary pages, but it looks cumbersome and pretty amateur. If I leave permalinks as plain, it works fine, but the urls don’t look pretty.

    Is there a way around this to get the Permalinks back working for the homepage?

    Thanks in advance

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  • Let’s create an example so we’re sure we’re on the same page here as I got lost a bit on your steps of the subdirectory installation.

    main url is https://localhost and WordPress is located inside /wp folder.

    Your siteurl (wordpress) should be https://localhost/wp and the home (website) should be https://localhost. You should copy the .htaccess and index.php page in the root ( basically https://localhost) directory and edit the index.php changing the line:

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

    The only thing left would be to just go to permalinks and hit save again so WordPress can read the appropriate pretty urls.

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    An extra note sometimes after moving WordPress you still have to do a manual search and replace to convert old urls to new ones if it was a migration. A plugin as https://www.ads-software.com/plugins/better-search-replace/ could easily do the job. Some themes + plugins are unfortunately hardcoding their urls when they create their options instead of using the core functions to retrieve it.

    Thread Starter Bob Wagstaff

    (@bob-wagstaff)

    Yes that is exactly what I did.

    my website is https://www.frampton.website
    This the code in my index.php in my root
    ( dirname( __FILE__ ) . '/wordpress/wordpress/wp-blog-header.php' )

    I currently have permalinks turned off. If you visit my site it works fine, except that permalinks are not on and the address appears in the menu bar as wordpress/worpdress. If I turn permalinks on, then typing frampton.website redirects it to frampton.website/wordpress/wordpress and it returns a 404 Page not found error, but then all the menu links etc work (including the Homepage link),

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