Exclude a path from wordpress

  • randomjohn

    (@randomjohn)


    16 years, 7 months ago

    I’d like to have a completely separate application running on my host in a path off of root, but I don’t want wordpress touching that application. How do I exclude the path?

    As an example, I have wordpress running on mygreatblogisgreat.com

    in mygreatblogisgreat.com/mygreatapp I have a completely unrelated application that has its own index.php and all that other good stuff. it’s completely standalone. wordpress might link to it as straight href or something, but other than that it shouldn’t “know” it’s there.

    thanks in advance

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  • jon

    (@adiant)

    16 years, 7 months ago

    So long as you don’t give your application the same folder name as one of the ones that WordPress uses, I’m not aware of any way that WordPress will even notice your application’s folder. Other than doing something silly in WordPress like assign the Media Upload folder to the same name as your application folder!

    Further evidence of this is WordPress installations I’ve seen where the live WordPress is in the root, and subfolders contain one or more test versions of WordPress.

    But, I have made the decision to NEVER install WordPress in the root. And even moving existing WordPress instances out of the root. This article covers how to do it: http://codex.wordpress.org/Giving_WordPress_Its_Own_Directory

    I have never heard any good reason to run WordPress in the root. There are lots of good reasons not to. The most obvious is the inevitable list of required files that a domain name needs in the Root that have nothing to do with WordPress. It is just too easy to accidentally delete one of those files when working with WordPress upgrades, recovery, etc.

    But, that really is a separate discussion.

    Thread Starter randomjohn

    (@randomjohn)

    16 years, 7 months ago

    Yeah, I was pretty surprised by the result. It’s a completely independent path, but WP is in root, so maybe that’s the problem. I’ll try moving WP to its own path. Thanks for the response.

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