Can't change url, nor find files in database

  • Resolved anaole

    (@anaole)


    8 years, 3 months ago

    Hello,

    I’m french so I’ll try to be as clear as possible. I haven’t found a solution anywhere, but I think I’m just not searching at the right place.

    I bought a domain name at OVH, and installed wordpress through their “simplified installation”.

    Everything is working just fine, I just want to change the url because right now it looks like http://potato.com/blog and I want it to be http://potato.com

    BUT I can’t access wordpress’s files with my ftp client. I have also searched in my database, I see that some are there but not the ones I’m looking for (like index.php, wp-config, …)

    How can I do this ?

    Thanks in advance.

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  • Bob Cristello

    (@gntmidnight)

    8 years, 3 months ago

    First, there are no files in your database.

    The files for a theme would be located in ../wp-content/theme/theme_name

    It looks like you either have your blog installed in the sub-directory called BLOG or someone has set up your permalinks to always use the term /blog/ in the url.

    You may want to take a look at these pages:

    http://codex.wordpress.org/Moving_WordPress
    http://codex.wordpress.org/Giving_WordPress_Its_Own_Directory

    Thread Starter anaole

    (@anaole)

    8 years, 2 months ago

    EDIT
    Ok I am just a huge idiot, I’m so sorry.
    the directory was in another directory that I didn’t see. I’m such a moron.
    Thank you very much for responding anyway !

    —

    Hi !
    Thank you for your message !
    Ok I wasn’t clear at all, but thank you for understanding my question.
    No, there are basically no wordpress files in any directory at all that I can access through my ftp.
    Let me explain. On my ftp I have access to the html, css, js, …. files that I created (without wordpress), and that are hosted at potato.com
    All the files that belong to the “blog” directory are not there.
    I imagine that if I want the “blog” part to be at the root of my website, I need to move those files, but I can’t to that.
    Am I totally wrong ? I feel like I’m completely misunderstanding everything. I’m lost !

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