John

Many thanks, well noted.

Great, many thanks!

Thanks but I gave up trying with this host as the problem seemed to only relate to this server. I deployed the same archive at another server and it worked fine.

Thanks, found them.

Thanks, will do.

Please also note that there is another thread with the same title here, from last year, but the lin provided by your support doesn’t work anymore.

Thanks!

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Thanks for this but no, I don’t think I followed any of the points at Method 2. In fact, those instructions are very confusing and it is still not clear to me which method fits best the case of “moving primary site from root to subfolder“. My understanding is that Method 2 is only when the Site URL changes, not the WP URL. In my case, only the WP URL changed so only Method 1 only should apply.

My mistake was to change the WP URL, thinking that this was necessary anyhow, and that seems to have caused the 404 errors. When reverting this URL back to its initial value everything worked again.

And this is a second confusion here as the change of WP URL is recommended in all WP docs in case you change your WP installation’s location. I thought I had to change this anyhow but there is no mention about it at this page with the 2 methods.

Please ignore the above as I found the recommended WP procedure here that is more straightforward and that also works fine with Hide Backend.

You are both right, my bad!

Permissions and htaccess files were correct but I had previously modified the WP URL to point to the subfolder for testing and I forgot to revert back to the website’s URL, the same as WP URL. Sorry about that.

I simply edited those settings back to their initial values and also re-saved the permalinks and everything works fine again. The htaccess at root remained the same as the one I uploaded that was created based on the WP page above and the original one is the same as initially at the subfolder. I mean the fact that I resaved the permalinks didn’t modify any of them – at least as far as I can see.

Thanks to both of you for your patience and assistance.

PS: I think the re-saving permalinks procedure is key to this process and should be added in the original WP page as a recommended step.

Thanks, tested this but still getting the same 404 errors.

Sorry, I’m a bit confused here. Let’s try again:

I have a host with the primary domain example.com.
WP files are currently installed as usual by default at root of /public_html/.
I want to move those files at /public_html/subfolder/ and load them from there when visitors type example.com as currently.

Thanks but this contradicts the other page that is specifically drafted for my case when wanting to move from root to subfolder.

Giving WordPress Its Own Directory

This new page you suggest is mainly for changing existing folders/subfolders and not for moving from ROOT to SUBFOLDER when a site is the primary of the hosting account. This move needs a new .htaccess at root.

Please ignore. Problem solved and was elsewhere, thanks.

Just to clarify:

– I was the one who asked my client to buy a membership for the Pro version 2 years ago because we needed Paypal subscriptions for his site.
– I was the one who had to explain to him why nothing happened during those 2 years
– He missed his renewal payment last week because he was abroad and didn’t think to update his CC at your Dashboard and when he asked to do so last week he was told that this was a “legacy” membership and that he had to buy a new one, more expensive, without even having an ETA for that Paypal subscription option. I am the one to tell him to give up and who took full responsibility for his useless membership.
– And now, after I downgraded the site to the free version, he saw your page inviting him to upgrade to the Pro version announcing Paypal subscriptions on his site’s Dashboard, under the Forminator menu.
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– At the end, I am the one having to explain all this to him and looking uber-stupid.

Lesson learned my friends.