setting "pointer" to the WP folder

  • Resolved scotianaires

    (@scotianaires)


    11 years, 7 months ago

    Here’s my problem: I have a website – scotianaires.ca – (this is the original html site which is still up and running). I have built a working WP site within a folder (WP) which is now complete and ready to be make live. I can’t delete the old site since I call many items from the original site to display in the new WP site. I tried setting the domain pointer to scotianaires.ca/WP – it displays the index page but none of the menu links work. After discussing the problem with someone at my hosting company they forwarded me a link to https://codex.www.ads-software.com/Changing_The_Site_URL – I tried following the instructions but screwed everything up totally – I had to have someone at the hosting company fix it so I could log back in – that’s now all working as it should be.
    What I’m trying to do is this: have people type in scotianaires.ca and arrive at scotianaires.ca/WP
    The Codex says:
    The “Home” setting is the address you want people to type in their browser to reach your WordPress blog – that is scotianaires.ca
    The “Site URL” setting is the address where your WordPress core files reside that is scotianaires.ca/WP
    I went to the WP general settings like the codex says, I tried putting scotianaires.ca in the “home/WordPress address (URL)” text box and scotianaires.ca/WP in the “site URL” – however, when I save that – that’s where everything got screwed up.
    There’s a lot of stuff there about changing code – but I’m still unclear about what I should put where so am reluctant to open the WP files and make any changes.
    Can anybody walk me through this – or do it for me for a reasonable fee? This is for a non profit organization of senior women singers – my hosting company will do it for me for $75 but this is something I should be able to do myself – it’s that the instructions aren’t quite clear enough.

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  • If you want to pay, you can always post on jobs.wordpress.net. That said, it sounds like all you need is a redirect for when someone goes to scotianaires.ca to forward them to scotianaires.ca/wp correct? That’s easy enough to do. Do you have access to cpanel or does your host provide any other management tools?

    In future development cycles, I’d recommend creating sites that don’t require assets (i.e. images and what not) from other sites so that you aren’t dependent on them staying live.

    Thread Starter scotianaires

    (@scotianaires)

    Were I starting from scratch I’d have a self contained site – the only reason I was rebuilding the site was that there is nobody in the chorus with enough savvy to work in the existing site and I thought that if I rebuilt it in WP they’d be able to update the content pages and add new assets to the WP site. This site is quite large and I really didn’t want to bother moving the several hundred photos and PDF docs all of which are archival anyway, which is why I’ve done this the way I have. These assets BTW are on the same “site” just in root level folders so they’re live if the WP folder is live.
    That said, all I want is a way to point scotianaires.ca to the folder scotianaires.ca/WP

    Right, so, as I asked before: Do you have access to cpanel or does your host provide any other management tools?

    Thread Starter scotianaires

    (@scotianaires)

    Not that I can see. There are a collection of what they call “Simple Scripts” but nothing is called cpanel.

    Ok, are any of those simple scripts a redirect? Did you register your domain name with the same company? You can set up a forward/redirect with your registrar (who registered your domain with).

    Thread Starter scotianaires

    (@scotianaires)

    Unfortunately, the domain name is registered with a different company than the hosting company (it’s a long story!)
    The hosting company has a redirect but when I tried it, It brought up the home page, but none of the menu links worked so none of the other pages would load.
    So I returned the pointer to the original public_html
    Then I called the hosting company to see what we could do – since it was easier to get them on the line than the domain name registrar.

    Thread Starter scotianaires

    (@scotianaires)

    this one has been resolved – when the mess got bad last evening I was able to move the problem over to the hosting company who dealt with the links between the database and the WP code and the site content. This morning the site was working and the URL pointed to the WP folder. I had to do some work adjusting links to images, PDF, etc. but that didn’t take long. The site is now working.
    Thanks for your input Andrew.

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