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1. gepilling
   Member
   Posted 2 years ago #

   I have a domain, let's call it domain.com. And I have an addon domain, call it addon.com, whose files are hosted in a directory within domain.com. I successfully installed WordPress in that directory so it can be used as addon.com, and I am in the process of modifying the theme right now, but I stumbled upon a pretty big problem.

   The problem I'm having is that all of the links that WordPress generates on addon.com go to domain.com/addon/ when they are supposed to go to addon.com. For example, clicking a category link while on addon.com goes to domain.com/addon/category/name instead of addon.com/category/name like it should. Furthermore, manually typing in addon.com/category/name results in a 500 internal server error.

   The addon domain is properly set up via cPanel (my host support person even confirmed this for me). So why is this happening? And what do I need to do to fix it? Any help is greatly appreciated!

2. Jonas Grumby
   Member
   Posted 2 years ago #

   Go to Settings > General and see if the URLs are correct.

3. gepilling
   Member
   Posted 2 years ago #

   Thanks, but the URLs are correct, that wasn't the problem.

   However, I thought the problem might be with the .htaccess file so I played around with that a bit and discovered the solution. In the .htaccess file, there are these 2 lines (among others)...

   RewriteBase /addon/
   and
   RewriteRule . /addon/index.php [L]

   and I manually changed them to:

   RewriteBase /
   and
   RewriteRule . /index.php [L]

   and that solved the problem! All the links are going where they should now, and I'm not getting the internal server errors anymore.

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