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  • Resolved sugarblaze

    (@sugarblaze)


    18 years, 5 months ago

    I am trying to make it so that people can type in mydomainname.com and actually see my blog, instead of having to type in mydomainname.com/wordpress. I think the way to do this is by following these instructions, but I’m having trouble understanding Step 9. I know how to open the file up and edit it, and I see the text I’m supposed to replace. However, what exactly do I replace it with? I tried (‘./wordpress/wp-blog-header.php’); just like that, and of course, that didn’t work. I know I need to put something else there, but what? Should it be (‘./wordpress/mydomainname.php’); or something along those lines? I’m really trying my hardest to understand all of this stuff and not ask dumb questions, but I cannot work this out on my own. Please help.

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  • Kafkaesqui

    (@kafkaesqui)

    18 years, 5 months ago

    If your blog is in the directory ‘wordpress’, and you’ve moved the WordPress index.php to your site’s root, then

    (‘./wordpress/wp-blog-header.php’)

    is exactly what you want. wp-blog-header.php is the name of a specific file in the WordPress installation directory, so you don’t want to change that. You could try:

    (‘wordpress/wp-blog-header.php’)

    but ‘./’ in server-lingo means to start in the current directory and work down (to whatever sub-directory and file is referenced). Another option is to use the absolute directory path on the server (if you know it):

    (‘/home/www/your-site/wordpress/wp-blog-header.php’)

    Note the path above is just an example.

    Thread Starter sugarblaze

    (@sugarblaze)

    18 years, 5 months ago

    THANK YOU! It worked!

    Thread Starter sugarblaze

    (@sugarblaze)

    18 years, 5 months ago

    How do I mark this issue resolved?

    Kafkaesqui

    (@kafkaesqui)

    18 years, 5 months ago

    Just posted to the wrong forum for that…I’ve moved it and marked it resolved for you.

    lostcityorg

    (@lostcityorg)

    18 years, 5 months ago

    I just had wordpress installed and asked not to have everything installed to /wordpress but it happened anyway. The last time I tried to fix this I just destroyed the whole site – it still lays in ruins on another domain. I just went through the instructions and everything is already set as shown in the directions referenced above. The only thing I haven’t tried is setting an absolute path.

    Can anyone make this easy? I just want to blog. My site is stockxc.com

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