the wordpress package content should be installed directly at the root of your domaine, and not into the “wordpress” directory
If you want your blog under http://domainname.com, then you need to upload just the content under the directory wordpress there.
I guess what you did was to simply FTP the directory wordpress and its contents to your site.
It’s clearly explained in the 5min installation doc.
On your hosting website, under domain management, can you change the domain mapping so that it points to http://domainname.com/wordpress?
Could move your WordPress install.
Or, assuming you don’t care that your admin URLs will still have wordpress in the URL…to make WordPress available at http://mydomain.com just change in Settings->General, the Blog address (URL) to http://mydomain.com and put this index.php file in your web-root folder (it is the same folder that contains the wordpress folder)
<?php
/* Short and sweet */
define('WP_USE_THEMES', true);
require('./wordpress/wp-blog-header.php');
?>
Then update your permalinks in Settings->Permalinks.
I just tried to do this and now I cannot access the admin panel at all
“On your hosting website, under domain management, can you change the domain mapping so that it points to http://domainname.com/wordpress?”
How can I get the admin panel back to work again even under domian/wordpress
Please advise.
Thanks
Just to clarify I removed the wordpress so everything pointed to the main domain now I cannot access the admin panel at all.
Did you “undo” the domain mapping?
You might also want to review:
http://www.tamba2.org.uk/wordpress/site-url/
