Hi - I hope someone can assist with this. It has to be a common issue, but I couldn't find a related question... If I have Wordpress installed on the root directory, is there a way to add a new folder that is NOT a part of Wordpress? For example, if Wordpress lives on http://www.mydomain.com, can I have a folder named http://www.mydomain.com/somefolder that is NOT a part of Wordpress? If so, how do I set the folder to not fall under Wordpress?
Or, have I screwed this up and should have installed Wordpress under http://www.mydomain.com/blog instead?
Thanks in advance for any help!!
This ought to work by default. If you make a folder under wordpress, wordpress does not handle it.
ex.
http://www.dustyant.com (runs wordpress)
http://www.dustyant.com/forums/ (runs bbpress)
If it doesn't, I'll need -
1. Is your webhost running Windows or Linux
2. If it runs apache, then paste your .htaccess (from your root folder) here
Hey pravin, thanks for the response. I just tested again, and it is reading any folders as part of Wordpress. I'm starting to think it is because of how I set the permalink structure: /%category%/%postname%/ - could that be it?
Thanks again.
.htacess is as follows:
# BEGIN WordPress
<IfModule mod_rewrite.c>
RewriteEngine On
RewriteBase /
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-f
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-d
RewriteRule . /index.php [L]
</IfModule>
# END WordPress
Update - changing the permalink structure didn't seem to help. I am hosting with BlueHost, if anyone here has possibly seen anything similar....
You do something wrong or your site is screwed up. I have this:
example.com - powered by WP
example.com/play - another WP
example.com/kafe - a totally different CMS with over 1000 posts
subdomain1.example.com - subdom=WP
subdomain2.example.com/blog - where blog=WP
(and more)
So, it should work.
The %catgeory% in the permalinks doesn't always work!
moshu, I have a few Wordpress sites on BlueHost, and they are all doing this. I don't know if it matters, but they use Fantastico to set Wordpress up. There has to be a simple solution to this, but I can't figure it out!
I have several sites setup on bluehost as well, except I always install wordpress myself. Never had a problem though, as long as the directory doesn't clash with a page slug (ie. directory called downloads, and a page slug downloads, will cause issues). Otherwise it should work fine regardless of your permalink structure.
BigSky
pravin
