Title: Change directory
Last modified: August 19, 2016

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# Change directory

 *  Resolved [bmt](https://wordpress.org/support/users/bmt/)
 * (@bmt)
 * [17 years ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/change-directory-1/)
 * Hi all,
 * I prepare a new version of a website in a sub-folder of the main directory of
   the host. The website was visible at an adress like [http://mydomain.org/wordpress/](http://mydomain.org/wordpress/)
   Everything was ok until the moment when I tried to target the web address to 
   the main folder of wordpress (want to have the site at this address [http://mydomain.org/](http://mydomain.org/).
   The host told me that we have to move the files in order to have the website 
   under the web address (no way to joined the web address with a sub-folder).
    
   So, what are the parameters, files I have to modify in order to have wordpress
   working well? Hope you will be able to help me, Thanks in advance, Best regards
   Benoît

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 *  [figaro](https://wordpress.org/support/users/figaro/)
 * (@figaro)
 * [17 years ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/change-directory-1/#post-1071557)
 * > The host told me that we have to move the files in order to have the website
   > under the web address (no way to joined the web address with a sub-folder).
 * You don’t have to move them…see the following directions for leaving the files
   in a subdirectory and making it look like wp is in root.
 * [http://codex.wordpress.org/Giving_WordPress_Its_Own_Directory](http://codex.wordpress.org/Giving_WordPress_Its_Own_Directory)
 * Or, if you want to move your files to root, then see the second video in the 
   following post for a step-by-step demonstration.
 * [http://educhalk.org/blog/?p=82](http://educhalk.org/blog/?p=82)
 *  Thread Starter [bmt](https://wordpress.org/support/users/bmt/)
 * (@bmt)
 * [17 years ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/change-directory-1/#post-1071642)
 * Thanks Figaro.
    This is what I was looking for!!! Great news. This is not done
   as the host meet other problem of redirection, but I have hope in your first 
   link. Just a question about this solution : what are the core files? (step 6)
   I’m French and I didn’t understand it. Thanks in advance,
 *  Thread Starter [bmt](https://wordpress.org/support/users/bmt/)
 * (@bmt)
 * [17 years ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/change-directory-1/#post-1071733)
 * At the end, I choose the second solution, following the video.
    Thanks a lot,

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