aeroadmin

Thanks Steve, I have now posted there

k

Will do thanks

k

Thank you very much James for your quick response, I opted to change the database directly to reflect a site running in the root & then copied all of the files & it worked!

I then used Velvet Blues Update URLs to sort out my references to the old /wordpress subdirectory & its all up & running again!

Now doing a backup before I try anything else!

Thanks again!

kevin

Hi Joy,
Many thanks for the quick response.
I’ve checked my domain (aerodivers.net) & I have not pointed it at the wordpress subdirectory.
I have two .htaccess files, one in root which has quite a lot in it including a bunch of stuff referring to W3TC (a caching plugin I used to have that doesn’t seem to have cleaned up after itself when I deleted it) and the following:-# BEGIN WordPress
<IfModule mod_rewrite.c>
RewriteEngine On
RewriteBase /
RewriteRule ^index\.php$ – [L]
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-f
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-d
RewriteRule . /index.php [L]
</IfModule>
# END WordPress

the other .htaccess is in the wordpress directory and only contains the following:-# BEGIN WordPress
<IfModule mod_rewrite.c>
RewriteEngine On
RewriteBase /
RewriteRule ^index\.php$ – [L]
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-f
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-d
RewriteRule . /index.php [L]
</IfModule>
# END WordPress

I also note the web page you directed me to indicates since my site is in a directory called wordpress my Settings/General WordPress Address URL should be https://aerodivers.net/wordpress not https://wordpress.aerodivers.net. I seem to recall trying that at some point in the past & then couldn’t get into my site but might this be a part of the cause?

Also neither of the .htaccess files looks anywhere near as complex as those on that web page & certainly don’t mention the wordpress directory – another part of the cause?

My index.php file however does contain the following:-

define(‘WP_USE_THEMES’, true);

/** Loads the WordPress Environment and Template */
require( dirname( __FILE__ ) . ‘/wordpress/wp-blog-header.php’ );

Does any of that help identify where the problem might be?

k

Apologies Miri360, your advice is very helpful. Sorry I couldn’t work out how to message you directly.

Apologies Mirri360, but I can’t work out how to contact a member, but you had an issue in another thread where The Upcoming Events widget list was indented on your site & I see it is not now. I have the same issue & was wondering how you resolved it?

Kind Regards

OK, I’ve done it, simples – as above.
Dont know about the google rankings though

Found this https://educhalk.org/blog/?p=21 which fixed it for me

Still, the question remains: How do I replace https://aerodivers.net with my new wordpress site that I’ve installed in a wordpress directory on the same host, do I
1. copy the index & htaccess files from wordpress to root & edit them
2. change the Settings/General urls to https://aerodivers.net

Do I need to do anything in Permalinks?
How do I retain the Google ranking or will there be no impact?

Help! I’ve broken something!

I changed Settings/General url for site & url for wordpress to https://wp.aerodivers.net (from https://wordpress.aerodivers.net) & now it can’t find my site & I can’t log in (it says https://wp-aerodivers.net is not found & https://wordpress.aerodivers.net is missing all of the theme

??

I have & its scary!

Also, I’m not moving to a new server or ideally Moving Directories on an existing server.

I simply want the new site to replace the old with the minimum effort & copying all the files around seems like an invitation to disaster!

Can I simply copy the index & htaccess files from wordpress to root & then edit Settings/General url for the site? If I then go to Permalinks will this now reflect the new ‘root’ location – do I need to change anything there.
Will I lose Google ranking? (The bookmarking of sub-pages isn’t really an issue)

Thanks

k

Its ok, I found Jetpack ??

For clarity this is the widget I am referring to:-

https://en.support.wordpress.com/widgets/contact-info/