http://wordpress.org/support/ WordPress › Support Topic: index.php in root, outside of wordpress folder en Thu, 26 Nov 2009 13:54:37 +0000 http://wordpress.org/support/topic/242752#post-982744 Wed, 11 Feb 2009 16:43:23 +0000 samboll 982744@http://wordpress.org/support/ <p>follow this<br /> <a href="http://codex.wordpress.org/Giving_WordPress_Its_Own_Directory" rel="nofollow">http://codex.wordpress.org/Giving_WordPress_Its_Own_Directory</a> </p> http://wordpress.org/support/topic/242752#post-982727 Wed, 11 Feb 2009 16:32:07 +0000 chrismalinao 982727@http://wordpress.org/support/ <p>i have my wordpress installation in a folder in my domain (public_html/wordpress) such that i can access my index.php by typing <a href="http://www.example.com/wordpress/" rel="nofollow">http://www.example.com/wordpress/</a>. this is for the purpose of trying out wordpress and building up the pages without going prime time yet.</p> <p>later, i intend to access index.php at root such that i could access it by typing just <a href="http://www.example.com" rel="nofollow">http://www.example.com</a>. i want only index.php at root and all other files should remain at the public_html/wordpress folder. is that good practice? how is that done?</p> <p>would it just be simpler if i deleted my wordpress folder and re-installed wordpress at root? i prefer my original intention if it does not get to be too complicated, accessing index.php at root but all other files inside the wordpress folder. </p>