Title: Changed wordpress folder, need help with redirection
Last modified: August 18, 2016

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# Changed wordpress folder, need help with redirection

 *  [andyblackburn](https://wordpress.org/support/users/andyblackburn/)
 * (@andyblackburn)
 * [19 years, 11 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/changed-wordpress-folder-need-help-with-redirection/)
 * I’ve been a WordPress user for a while now, and absolutely love the software,
   it really is fantastic. The support section and forum here have been indispensable
   during setup and for ironing out the small issues I have had here and there, 
   but alas, the problem I am having now, I just cannot seem to fix or find a solution
   to, so for the first time, I’m asking for some help.
 * I recently moved WordPress from /blog/ to the root of my domain. That’s right,
   I have replaced the rest of my site with WordPress, because I am that happy with
   it! The instructions were flawless, and I got everything moved and up and running
   in absolutely no time! However, whenever someone follows an old link (from a 
   search engine for example) they receive the following:
 * “Forbidden
    You don’t have permission to access /blog/ on this server.”
 * or in the case of index.php, as it is now at the root:
 * “Not Found
    The requested URL /blog/index.php was not found on this server.”
 * I have tried to use a .htaccess file with the following command in it:
 * HTTP Redirect permanent /blog/ /
 * or
 * `HTTP Redirect permanent /blog/ http://www.domain.co.uk/`
 * but this just leads to internal server errors.
 * I need some help guys n girls… anyone?
 * Many thanks in advance
 * [edit: the forum keeps resolving the domain to a link for some reason, but you
   get the idea! :)]

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 *  Thread Starter [andyblackburn](https://wordpress.org/support/users/andyblackburn/)
 * (@andyblackburn)
 * [19 years, 11 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/changed-wordpress-folder-need-help-with-redirection/#post-414783)
 * Hi Again,
 * Managed to get it working using mod rewrite, but then I encounter a big problem,
   it also rewrites when you try and access /blog/wp-admin back to /wp-admin, which
   obviously doesnt exist.
 * My searching says that you can’t move /wp-admin to a different directory…
 * Any help would be greatly appreciated! 🙂
 *  [yosemite](https://wordpress.org/support/users/yosemite/)
 * (@yosemite)
 * [19 years, 11 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/changed-wordpress-folder-need-help-with-redirection/#post-414786)
 * _it also rewrites when you try and access /blog/wp-admin back to /wp-admin, which
   obviously doesnt exist._
 * You didn’t move all the WP files to /, just some of them?
 *  Thread Starter [andyblackburn](https://wordpress.org/support/users/andyblackburn/)
 * (@andyblackburn)
 * [19 years, 11 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/changed-wordpress-folder-need-help-with-redirection/#post-414788)
 * I gave wp it’s own directory, whilst having the index in the root, as per these
   instructions:
 * [http://codex.wordpress.org/Giving_WordPress_Its_Own_Directory](http://codex.wordpress.org/Giving_WordPress_Its_Own_Directory)
 *  [yosemite](https://wordpress.org/support/users/yosemite/)
 * (@yosemite)
 * [19 years, 11 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/changed-wordpress-folder-need-help-with-redirection/#post-414791)
 * Double-check #3 and #9?
 *  Thread Starter [andyblackburn](https://wordpress.org/support/users/andyblackburn/)
 * (@andyblackburn)
 * [19 years, 11 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/changed-wordpress-folder-need-help-with-redirection/#post-414793)
 * Yeah I did… I have decided to move EVERYTHING into the root of the domain now…
   this will work better I assume 🙂

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 * Last reply from: [andyblackburn](https://wordpress.org/support/users/andyblackburn/)
 * Last activity: [19 years, 11 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/changed-wordpress-folder-need-help-with-redirection/#post-414793)
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