With my hosting provider i am able to use CPanel, through that i Redirected all traffic from http://www.aledevs.co.uk to http://www.aledevs.co.uk/wordpress . If that makes any senst to you
Hmm that sounds easier than going through that directory nonsense-I’ll try to do it from C-Panel first. Thank You
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the only thing i see the problem with is that it one come up with mysite.com but mysite.com/wordpress but thats nothing really, it all works.
Okay nevermind-I have godaddy and I don’t see that option in cpanel (godaddy hosting sucks)…thanks anywhoo
I just installed wp-admin, wp-content, and wp-includes along with the files directly in the wordpress folder installed in my public_html folder and it works. So it’s not http://www.yoursite.com/public_html/wordpress/wp-admin it’s http://www.yoursite.com/public_html/wp-admin
That’s irrelevent to my question. When users visit http://www.mysite.com I want them to see wordpress content. I don’t want to link hem to http://www.mysite.com/public_html/wordpress etc.
I guess I don’t understand then, because as far as I can see I answered your question.
By installing everything straight into the public_html folder like I said then your wp content will be displayed on the main page. You said right now everything is installed in http://www.mysite.com/public_html/wordpress , eliminate the “wordpress” folder so everything is just installed directly into your public_html folder. That’s what I’ve done on my blogs so I know it works.
the CPanel section should be Named Redirects
To all of you:
example.com/html_public/ or example.com/html_publif/wordpress are the places where you upload through FTP.
A visitor should never see the addresses above, only www.example.com or `example.com/wordpress, respectively.
To move the WP installation from a subfolder to root, you have 2 options:
To change the 2 URI values in Options and physically move the files up one level; or follow this:
http://codex.wordpress.org/Giving_WordPress_Its_Own_Directory
Edit. Try to avoid any redirects when using WP!!!
Greetings Moshu,
Does that apply to those who are leasing space on a virtual unix setup? To my unstanding in this case when a visitor clicks on the url http://www.mysite_whatever?.com they are sent by default to:
/home/usr/public_html/index.html as part of the DNS resolution.
Isn’t the /public_html a subdirectory of the root and not the root itself?
I used Fantastico for my setup and all I basically needed to do is name the directory(non-existent) where I wanted WP installed.
However, the directory was still installed as a sub-directory in /public_html and my visitors are still sent to my site’s homepage via public_html/index.html and not my WP sub-directory.
I believe what both Fever and Aled want is their WP to serve the same function as the index.html file.
<—- Just a quest for further clarification when you have time —->
Thank you in advance
Regards,
rozmo
Yes, we are talking about “leasing” space 🙂
/home/usr/public_html/index.html – this is a server path;
example.com – is the URI (URL)
Two different things, though related, of course.
public_html or www or htdocs – they ARE the root; different names on different server settings.
You don’t have to think what happens on the server when somebody clicks on your URI (too much thinking makes wrinkles… 😉
I know, Fantastico can install WP only in a subdir. If you want it in the root – manual install is the way to go, or read carefully the link I gave above or this one (depending what you want)
http://codex.wordpress.org/Moving_WordPress
Man you’re quick…lol. Thanks !
