Title: Exclude a path from wordpress
Last modified: August 19, 2016

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# Exclude a path from wordpress

 *  [randomjohn](https://wordpress.org/support/users/randomjohn/)
 * (@randomjohn)
 * [16 years, 7 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/exclude-a-path-from-wordpress/)
 * I’d like to have a completely separate application running on my host in a path
   off of root, but I don’t want wordpress touching that application. How do I exclude
   the path?
 * As an example, I have wordpress running on mygreatblogisgreat.com
 * in mygreatblogisgreat.com/mygreatapp I have a completely unrelated application
   that has its own index.php and all that other good stuff. it’s completely standalone.
   wordpress might link to it as straight href or something, but other than that
   it shouldn’t “know” it’s there.
 * thanks in advance

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 *  [jon](https://wordpress.org/support/users/adiant/)
 * (@adiant)
 * [16 years, 7 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/exclude-a-path-from-wordpress/#post-1245003)
 * So long as you don’t give your application the same folder name as one of the
   ones that WordPress uses, I’m not aware of any way that WordPress will even notice
   your application’s folder. Other than doing something silly in WordPress like
   assign the Media Upload folder to the same name as your application folder!
 * Further evidence of this is WordPress installations I’ve seen where the live 
   WordPress is in the root, and subfolders contain one or more test versions of
   WordPress.
 * But, I have made the decision to NEVER install WordPress in the root. And even
   moving existing WordPress instances out of the root. This article covers how 
   to do it: [http://codex.wordpress.org/Giving_WordPress_Its_Own_Directory](http://codex.wordpress.org/Giving_WordPress_Its_Own_Directory)
 * I have never heard any good reason to run WordPress in the root. There are lots
   of good reasons not to. The most obvious is the inevitable list of required files
   that a domain name needs in the Root that have nothing to do with WordPress. 
   It is just too easy to accidentally delete one of those files when working with
   WordPress upgrades, recovery, etc.
 * But, that really is a separate discussion.
 *  Thread Starter [randomjohn](https://wordpress.org/support/users/randomjohn/)
 * (@randomjohn)
 * [16 years, 7 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/exclude-a-path-from-wordpress/#post-1245263)
 * Yeah, I was pretty surprised by the result. It’s a completely independent path,
   but WP is in root, so maybe that’s the problem. I’ll try moving WP to its own
   path. Thanks for the response.

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