motorbelly

My suspicion is this won’t work in a shared environment. Maybe in a Virtual Server, but I got the same result you did.

I did the same change in subdirectory names and discovered there were a number of directory name inclusions in the database. I exported the database and opened it in a text editor and searched for wordpress/ and replaced it with blog/

I think there were five or more places on the configuration and every post had it (I had about 60 posts)

Then I emptied the tables and imported the sql file I’d edited and all is fine.

Wouldn’t sware this will work for you, but it might. ??

From one newbie to another… read the docs. ??
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Hope this helps!