You should use the Change Domain Name tool on the Migration Assistant page and fill in the details as the following:
Old Domain Name: dougbardwell.com/wordpress
New Domain Name: dougbardwell.com
Once the operation is completed successfully, open your FTP client and move everything inside the /wordpress/ directory up one level.
Thanks very much. I’ll give it a try.
I’m just realizing that all my article links are going to change if I move everything. I’ve got a fair number of links out there that will be going no where if I do that.
Is it possible to just change my landing page and leave everything else where it is.
You can 301 redirect the traffic to your new installation by using some htaccess magic. Redirection using the code 301 means that the requested page has been moved permanently. So, by using 301 redirection, users will be redirected to the new URL and search engine spiders will update themselves by replacing the new URL of the requested page with the older one.
HELP-HELP-HELP
First, thanks Mert, but I decided to just move the whole thing as originally planned. I used the Change Domain Tool and changed the domain from dougbardwell.com/wordpress to dougbardwell.com. I then moved all my files and folders from the wordpress folder to the root folder.
Now I can go to DougBardwell.com and see my home page and everything looks okay…but…click on any link and I get an “Internal Server Error” message.
What’s strange however is that when I go to my Dashboard, then ALL Posts…everything there shows up just fine. The URL’s all appear correct (dougbardwell.com not dougbardwell.com/wordpress) and I can edit them, but the posts themselves will not show up. While in editing mode, if I click View Post, I get that same 500 Internal Server Error message.
Can anyone give me a clue what I did wrong? A thousand blessings to who ever can help. I’m ready to throw myself under a bus.
Looks like you forgot to move your .htaccess file to the root directory. Place it inside the root directory and you’ll be good to go 🙂
PROBLEM SOLVED
Long story, but found a way to relink all the articles with a couple lines of code in the themes – function.php file. Alls well. Thanks.
