Wilma_Wilma
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Works for me too ??
Thanks!He’s not the only one. I’ve had the same happening ever since I downloaded the plugin for the first time in early April. I mentioned it in a post in the beta testers forum but it got lost in the “noise” about a disappearing permalink page. Tried several other versions since and the problem remains.
Forum: Installing WordPress
In reply to: Installing WP in root – coexisting with other foldersWOOOHOOO …. I’m very happy ?? just did everything that you two suggested and it seems to have worked just fine. I need to redo a link or two, but it’s looking good! Thank you so very much for your patience and help! I learned a thing or two and one day I hope to be able to share what I learned with others, just the way you two did.
Forum: Installing WordPress
In reply to: Installing WP in root – coexisting with other foldersReading this again, I think my earlier post on NOT moving the WP .htaccess file is wrong and I should move it. I guess my question should have been … is there anything in the current htaccess file that I should copy to the WP .htaccess file and if yes, WHERE do I put it. Or can I just delete that current htaccess file (with the directory stuff in it). I hope I still make sense! I’m on a learning curve (and thankful for your help! stuff like this is a bit scary when you do it for the first time).
Forum: Installing WordPress
In reply to: Installing WP in root – coexisting with other foldersHere’s what’s in the existing .htaccess file (in the public_html directory) if it helps:
DirectoryIndex default.html default.htm index.html index.htm index.phpand this is what’s in the .htaccess file that’s currently in the existing blog directory (after I changed the permalinks – it didn’t give me a problem):
# BEGIN WordPress
<IfModule mod_rewrite.c>
RewriteEngine On
RewriteBase /blog/
RewriteRule ^index\.php$ – [L]
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-f
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-d
RewriteRule . /blog/index.php [L]
</IfModule># END WordPress
Forum: Installing WordPress
In reply to: Installing WP in root – coexisting with other foldersI’m following this here: https://codex.www.ads-software.com/Giving_WordPress_Its_Own_Directory
It mentions moving the .htaccess file to the root, but there already is an .htaccess file in there. If I understand you rightly, I can ignore moving the WP .htaccess file and just move the index.php (from the blog directory) to the root? And then follow the instructions in the above link when I switch to pretty permalinks and get a warning that the .htaccess file cannot be written to?
Forum: Installing WordPress
In reply to: Installing WP in root – coexisting with other foldersThanks again! You are very helpful!
The current blog does not have pretty permalinks and I understand that in this case, there may not be a .htaccess file. I wanted to have pretty permalinks in the new WP structure, but if not having those would avoid possible .htaccess clashes, I’ll do without. I wouldn’t be confident enough to edit such a file or even know what to put in it if there were to be a conflict.
Currently the other things in the root (all in their own subdirectories) are x-Cart, forum (vBulletin), the current blog (WP), image gallery.Forum: Installing WordPress
In reply to: Installing WP in root – coexisting with other foldersThank you both!
Yes, there is an index.html file in the public_html directory. It is the current landing page of the site (basically a logo with mapped buttons to click through to the main sections of the site: store, forums, blog). The idea to set up a WP site with a static front page was to get rid of this existing landing page, so I guess it can be deleted (together with another couple of .html files like the 404 page – which are also now included in the WP setup.
Not sure whether there is a .htaccess (if it’s there, I guess it’s hidden), but it is a good point to check.
Govpatel: why must that static front page be without sidebars? I’ve set up a static front page like a newspaper page. This works great in my test environment (which has WP in public_html but it’s the only thing installed there).