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1. bmstone
   Member
   Posted 5 months ago #

   Hi, I'm sorry if this is a noob question.

   I have been trying to install wordpress so that my index.php is in one directory and wordpress installation in another. i have found this article in the codex -

   http://codex.wordpress.org/Giving_WordPress_Its_Own_Directory

   the problem with this article is that it only explains how to do it if you want the index.php file in root.

   i want my index.php file to be in domain.com/store,
   and the rest of the installation to be in domain.com/wordpress

   step nine of the guide says to do this to the index.php 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');

   what do i need to write for the path to go from domain.com/store to domain.com/wordpress?

   any help would be very appreciated, i've been searching google and these forums for a good hour now with no luck.

2. bmstone
   Member
   Posted 5 months ago #

   Hi guys,

   i've tried using -

   require($_SERVER['DOCUMENT_ROOT'].'/wordpress/wp-blog-header.php');

   this still adds the 'store' folder to the path making it

   store/wordpress/wp-blog-header.php

   is there any way to actually make this work or am i wasting my time?

   please i could really use some help on this.

3. meesha
   Member
   Posted 5 months ago #

   To determine if you are wasting your time or not, I need to know why you are trying to do this?

   Meesha

4. bmstone
   Member
   Posted 5 months ago #

   i want the URL bar to contain the address 'store.domain.com'

   redirecting to it on the server side doesn't work because it reverts to the wordpress install folder.

5. meesha
   Member
   Posted 5 months ago #

   I don't know if you can do that or not - it's a little outside of my knowledge. I do know that I run all of my blogs out of the install folder and name that folder something relivent.

   Most are http://www.domain.com/blog/ but I also use http://www.domain.com/whatsup/ on one site as it's all news and reviews. If I was running it as a store, and I've thought about it, I'd use http://www.domain.com/store/.

   That way I can install additional software using the same domain, like one site has the blog - http://www.domain.com/blog/ - plus a Simple Machines forum which is http://www.domain.com/user-forums/. You can see that at http://www.sizzleonthegrill.com.

   Go to http://www.wallawallawinenews.com and look at how I have it arranged. All the departments are database driven and each has it's own folder, Events, Wineries, Realtors, etc. That way when they wanted a blog added I just installed it in a /whatsup/ folder added a navigation link and it is very compatable with the rest of the departments.

   Best I can offer on this one,

   Meesha

6. figaro
   Member
   Posted 5 months ago #

   @meesha: That's good advice. The best way to make a blog look like it's in a directory called "store" is to actually put it in a directory called "store".

7. bmstone
   Member
   Posted 5 months ago #

   haha yeah well of course it's logical to put the install in a folder called store.

   I was looking at this as more of an exercise in rerouting the processes.

   thanks for your help meesha, i think this one is more effort than it is actually worth.

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