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I have exactly the same problem. I started a thread in the themes section because I thought it was theme related ( https://www.ads-software.com/support/topic/168827?replies=6#post-733866 ) but I discovered that even switching back to the default theme doesn’t fix it.

Basically I followed the instructions on how to move you index.php file to the root so you can access the blog via the root domain name such as example.co.uk instead of example.co.uk/wordpress. Since then al my likks are broken and I get a 404 page not found error when trying to view any post, comment, add comment etc.

It’s as though the instructions here https://codex.www.ads-software.com/Giving_WordPress_Its_Own_Directory no longer work for wordpress 2.5

The instructions do work in that they allow access to the blog home page directly from my domain https://www.snappyname.co.uk but all the links apart from the link to the admin control panel are broken. The whole link structure is no longer looking in the wordpress folder where all of the files remain (they haven’t moved)

Foer example, I just posted a test article, which appears on the index page. Clicking the name of the article’s header which normally takes you to the article tries to go to https://www.snappyname.co.uk/test/ and gives a 404 error, likewise clicking the comment link to try adding a comment attempts to go to https://www.snappyname.co.uk/test/#respond and gives a 404 error.

The links should surely be pointing to https://www.snappyname.co.uk/wordpress/test/ and https://www.snappyname.co.uk/wordpress/test/#respond
shouldn’t they?

What I don’t understand is that the support article says this is how to move your blog index file to the root folder whilst keeping your other files in a sub folder but it doesn’t update all the link structure properly. Am I doing something stupidy wrong or is this a bug in wordpress 2.5?

The blog remains in the wordpress folder. Only the main index.php has been moved. The tutorial I quoted is supposed to show how to do this.

The object is to keep all the wordpress files in a separate folder (wordpress) but to be able to access the blog from the root of your server. So instead of getting to the blog via https://www.examplesite.co.uk/wordpress you can get there from https://www.examplesite.co.uk

Thank you for your reply. I have followed the instructions exactly ( https://codex.www.ads-software.com/Giving_WordPress_Its_Own_Directory ) which contains the instruction to change the address on the settings as you describe.

The instructions say to leave “WordPress address (URL)” as https://www.snappyname.co.uk/wordpress which I have done and to change “Blog address (URL)” to point to the root folder of my site – https://www.snappyname.co.uk

I have also followed the instructions to edit the index.PHP file “Change the following and save the file. Change the line that says:
require(‘./wp-blog-header.php’);
to the following, using your directory name for the WordPress core files:
require(‘./wordpress/wp-blog-header.php’);”

It has worked in the sense that navigating to my domain name now goes to my WordPress blog, and it has also worked in the sense that logging in to the control panel works. But, most of the links on my blog, going to previous posts, comments, add a comment, previous entries and so on are all broken becausethey do not point to the WordPress folder where all other files remain.

I should add that all the links are broken even with the wordpress default theme selected.

I’m wondering if this could be a new problem introduced by version 2.5?

I’ve just experimented by adding another test post in case the problem was only affecting previous posts. I created a new test post but clicking on the header in WordPress tries to find it in https://www.snappyname.co.uk/test/ which results in “Not Found
The requested document was not found on this server.”

All other files are of course still in the wordpress/ directory.

I’ve followed the instructions exactly but they just don’t work in version 2.5. Are these instructions appropriate to move the wordpress blog index.php to the root directory when the blog has previously been running in it’s own wordpress/ directory?

I have the same problem. I think mine have only stopped after moving to another server though. I’m on V 2.3.3. My comment notifications have always been addressed to my personal email account but from wordpress@mydomain.

Why not? I only manually delete and type in the code area. I don’t use any of its design features. In that case it should be no different to using notepad as no extra code is generated AFAIK.

Thanks. No I’m not but a quick check has shown me that I think the file I need to edit is called the sidebar. I’ll have a bash at editting it in Dreamweaver.

I changed skins and this one does show “previous articles” links at the bottom of the page – where they should be.

Excellent – up and running in less than a minute. Thanks very much.