Comments on: Giving WordPress its own directory while leaving your blog in the root directory

By: poojim

poojim — Mon, 10 Oct 2011 07:28:02 +0000

Hey there!

Thank you for this post. In understand how giving wordpress its own directory is important. I wonder how can you do the same with your wordpress uploads such as images so that you can upload them in the wordpress directory but pointing out directly to the domain name.

By: Carlos

Carlos — Sat, 01 Oct 2011 07:54:27 +0000

I think I want to do the opposite. http://example.com currently takes people to my WordPress homepage. But what I want to do is have the root domain URL go to a different page and for the WordPress home page to have a URL like http://example.com/home. Can this be done? Thanks!

By: Vivianne

Vivianne — Tue, 25 Jan 2011 19:53:02 +0000

Hello I did everything here and when I try to access aicocolon.com/blog is not showing, its showing. Apparently getting error 404.
Please advice.

By: Jason

Jason — Tue, 24 Aug 2010 18:58:36 +0000

I am having a problem with giving wordpress it’s own directory also. I have followed all the steps (except i don’t have a .htaccess file. but my permalinks are default.) After I go through all of the steps I can access my page from the new address but non of the links work. I have the index.php in the root and the rest of wordpress in http://www.mysite.com/public/. If I go to http://www.mysite.com I get the front page but the links all go to http://www.mysite.com/catigory not /public/catigory, so they all get 404s. I hope this is not confusing, cause it is starting to confuse me as to why this is happening. thanks.

By: Han

Han — Mon, 12 Jul 2010 16:15:33 +0000

Hi William, Mark. I’m sorry to say that I’m rather busy with work these days that I can’t find time to test out stuff I did when I have started the blog. If I don’t have immediate answers to question, I won’t be trying to find out. Sorry folks.

By: Mark

Mark — Fri, 09 Jul 2010 14:40:25 +0000

Hi Han,
I saw your workaround with Michael Aulia and was wondering whether it will work with my situation. I have several blogs running under one hosting with multiple domains. All is redirected but what if I want each blog to only show its own respective domain?

Example:
Domains –
http://www.myblog.com/blog –> only show http://www.blog.com
http://www.myblog.com/blog2 –> only show http://www.blog2.com
http://www.myblog.com/blog3 –> only show http://www.blog.com

Hope you understand what I meant

By: William

William — Tue, 22 Jun 2010 21:43:00 +0000

Dear SandboxBlogger,

I have not seen an answer to my previous comment #48.

Could you tell me which is the correct lines to use in the robots.txt file? I think it should be

/wp-content

and not

/wordpress/wp-content

I am not sure because I do not understand how the search engine spider indexes the pages on a website. Does it go to the home pages and uses the hyperlinks to access other pages and posts or does it “see” the directory structure of a website and then access files.

I notice that you use:

User-agent: *
Disallow: /wp/cig-bin/
Disallow: /wp/wp-admin/
Disallow: /wp/wp-content/
Disallow: /wp/wp-includes/
User-agent: Mediapartners-Google*
Disallow: /*/feed/*$
Disallow: /*/trackback/$
User-agent: Googlebot
Disallow: /*/feed/*$
Disallow: /*/trackback/$
User-Agent: msnbot
Disallow: */feed/*$
Disallow: */trackback/$

So you think it should be

/wordpress/wp-content

instead. Can you tell me which is the correct way to use? Thanks.

By: William

William — Sat, 12 Jun 2010 20:29:30 +0000

I was wondering. If the wordpress files are in http://example.com/wordpress, what should the contents of the robots.txt in the root directory be to prevent robots from accessing the wordpress files.

Should you use:

/wp-content

etc., or should you use

/wordpress/wp-content

etc. in the robots.txt file.

By: James Collett

James Collett — Thu, 27 May 2010 19:47:49 +0000

I should like to find instructions for doing this that work on a Windows Server (Windows Server 2008 specifically).

It seems in principle that the same set of steps are required, but when the instructions talk specifically about the .htaccess file, that becomes inrrelevant because I don’t have one of those.

I followed the steps as found at the Almighty Codex page at the WordPress web site and it broke my blog (no page displayed). So maybe there are Windows-specific gotchas?

By: Lehi

Lehi — Wed, 26 May 2010 23:28:52 +0000

Ok, I found a tutorial on WordPress that tells me the exact same thing, however, you have a comment section. Maybe you can help me.

My WordPress files already have their own directory on my server. I moved the two .htaccess file and the index.php file (after changing it) to the root directory. However, http://example.com will not show my website. It goes to the original register.com parking page. The only way to see the website is by going to http://example.com/wordpress. It won’t work any other way. I even experimented with putting the WordPress files in the root directory, but that did me no good.

What am I doing wrong? I followed the instructions exactly, and in fact I was able to make it work for a different website I am working on.