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Changing Blog URL from Subdirectory to Main Directory (5 posts)

  1. biodrama
    Member
    Posted 2 years ago #

    When I originally created my blog, I placed it in a subdirectory, i.e. - http://www.mydomain.com/blog, and placed an introductory page, index.html, in the site root with a link to enter the blog. Now, I want to eliminate index.html entirely, and have the blog load immediately at http://www.mydomain.com. I have been examining some of the documentation, and find it confusing. Could this be as simple as changing the Blog Address in General Settings? Is is better to move the installation?

    Sorry about those live links. I didn't know how to kill them. They are just examples.

  2. esmi
    Theme Diva & Forum Moderator
    Posted 2 years ago #

  3. biodrama
    Member
    Posted 2 years ago #

    That page is practically unreadable. Seriously, it would be easier to scrap the whole thing & recreate it from scratch than to get any help from that page. And in other pages of the Codex, it suggests that the blog can live in a subdirectory yet have the main directory as its URL, and that it's not that hard to do. for example:

    http://codex.wordpress.org/Giving_WordPress_Its_Own_Directory

    Unfortunately, that page assumes the blog is being moved. What I want to know is, can it stay where it is in the subdirectory, yet have the URL of the main directory? And does the info on this page apply in this case?

  4. esmi
    Theme Diva & Forum Moderator
    Posted 2 years ago #

    Yes. And yes.

  5. biodrama
    Member
    Posted 2 years ago #

    Thank you!

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