installing wordpress on documentroot

  • sangfroid

    (@sangfroid)


    14 years, 2 months ago

    Hello,

    While trying to install wordpress 3.3.1 on the document root of my website, I am running into some strange issues.

    I downloaded the tar file from http://wordpress.org/latest.tar.gz using wget and then unzipped in my document root directory.

    But it unzips all files into a folder ‘wordpress’. For eg: if /www/mysite.com is my documentroot,then it creates a folder wordpress as /www/mysite.com/wordpress … I wanted all index.php and other files under /www/mysite.com…

    When I tried to move files from wordpress directory to /www/mysite.com, the installation doesn’t work at all….

    any ideas how to fix this ??? I don’t want ‘wordpress’ directory inside /www/mysite.com folder.

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  • jevets

    (@jevets)

    14 years, 2 months ago

    You could keep the wordpress folder and use this technique:
    Giving_WordPress_Its_Own_Directory

    You probably didn’t move every file. The .htaccess isn’t moved via the commands like $> mv wordpress/* .. You’d have to move it manually.

    Also, check your server config. If you have a index.html, index.htm, or simliar default file, many servers load this by default before loading index.php.

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