Gunther

update: the filosofo home page control plug-in was not the right solution for me. i installed, it all it does is this:
Select which page should open when someone requests https://www.mydomain.com/blog/. When set to “WordPress Default”, WordPress loads a file named “home.php” from your template directory if that file exists; otherwise WordPress will load the template’s “index.php” file.

my issue is not with https://www.mydomain.com/blog/ – I’m loading a static page already, no problem.

my question is how do i get that static page to load with
https://www.mydomain.com/ while still retaining my functional blog at https://www.mydomain.com/blog/

Hi Ann
Thanks for the link…the article is unclear and has too many warnings..it is very poorly written.

… but the link to the other plugin looks good…I will try it as soon as i have a chance…does your server allow you htaccess?

Hi Ann
This article almost gives me what i want:
https://codex.www.ads-software.com/Giving_WordPress_Its_Own_Directory

but i do not want to load index.php as the homepage…i want my static page called Home as the homepage (without redirection of course).

this way anyone navigating to https://www.mydomain.com sees the static Home page off the root, yet the blog stays in the blog folder.

sorry…i missed that….should be exactly what i need
THANKS!

update: it seems this error was caused by my FTP-Client (WSFTP)..seems process would fail causing a 0 byte entry…this was not evident because i was not working on sidebar.php when this happened..it must be in the schedule settings.