Title: Folder Structure on Web Host
Last modified: August 18, 2016

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# Folder Structure on Web Host

 *  [donellis](https://wordpress.org/support/users/donellis/)
 * (@donellis)
 * [20 years, 11 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/folder-structure-on-web-host/)
 * I’m having a little difficulty getting started.
 * I have four websites with the same host and wish to host four blogs in subdirectories
   under the hosts, like this:
    [http://www.blue.com/blog](http://www.blue.com/blog)
   [http://www.green.com/blog](http://www.green.com/blog) [http://www.orange.com/blog](http://www.orange.com/blog)
   [http://www.red.com/blog](http://www.red.com/blog)
 * Although I understand I can upload the WordPress files to the root directory,
   I’ve decided it will be cleaner to upload four copies to the four “blog” directories—
   no problem, unlimited space.
 * I have tried uploading to “blog” but I see that my “install.php” file is expected
   in the “wp-admin” folder. Where does that come from? In unzipping the WordPress.
   zip, no subfolders are created,
 * My next venture was to create the “wp-admin” folder myself and move all the WordPress
   files to that folder. Still no luck finding the “install.php” file, following
   this installation advice: “If you installed into a subdirectory called blog, 
   you would visit [http://example.com/blog/wp-admin/install.php](http://example.com/blog/wp-admin/install.php).
 * When I open “install.php”, I see the syntax “../wp-admin/install.php” which means,
   if I’m typing in “[http://www.blue.com/blog/wp-admin/install.php&#8221](http://www.blue.com/blog/wp-admin/install.php&#8221);
   as the instructions state, it wants to go up a directory? I am confused.
 * Three questions come to mind:
    1. Where does the “my-admin” folder come from?
   Do you manually create it as I have? 2. Where do I put the WordPress files if
   I want my blog to be in “www.blue.com/blog”? 3. Do ALL files go into “blog” or“
   wp-admin”? Or are some in one and some in the other?
 * I’m stopping now before this becomes a book.
 * Thanks very much.
 * Don

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 *  [Mark (podz)](https://wordpress.org/support/users/podz/)
 * (@podz)
 * [20 years, 11 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/folder-structure-on-web-host/#post-211178)
 * When you unzip the download, it should form a folder called ‘wordpress’ and in
   that there are 4 folders + several files.
    Check that your unzipping is preserving
   the folder structure.
 * Once you have that sorted, then upload everything inside the ‘wordpress’ folder
   to inside the ‘blog’ folder.
    You seem to have everything else spot on.
 * What utility are you using to unzip ?
 *  Thread Starter [donellis](https://wordpress.org/support/users/donellis/)
 * (@donellis)
 * [20 years, 11 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/folder-structure-on-web-host/#post-211179)
 * Ah… I wondered why I’m not getting a folder structure. I’m using Powerdesk, which
   generally displays internal folders — don’t know what’s wrong. Guess I need to
   go get WinZip.
 * This is my first post… before I downloaded WordPress I checked out the support
   forum. It looked good then and thanks to you it couldn’t be better.
 * Thanks very much.
 * Don
 *  [Mark (podz)](https://wordpress.org/support/users/podz/)
 * (@podz)
 * [20 years, 11 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/folder-structure-on-web-host/#post-211183)
 * Glad I was of help 🙂
 * A full directory and file listing of 1.5.1.2 is now here:
    [http://codex.wordpress.org/User:Podz/Filelisting](http://codex.wordpress.org/User:Podz/Filelisting)
 *  Thread Starter [donellis](https://wordpress.org/support/users/donellis/)
 * (@donellis)
 * [20 years, 11 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/folder-structure-on-web-host/#post-211185)
 * DONE! Thank you very much.
 * Don
 *  Thread Starter [donellis](https://wordpress.org/support/users/donellis/)
 * (@donellis)
 * [20 years, 11 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/folder-structure-on-web-host/#post-211186)
 * Ok, maybe not DONE… I’m sure there will be more questions as I move along but
   at least the vehicle is on the road. Now to look for themes and figure out how
   they work.
 * Cheers,
 * Don
 *  [Mark (podz)](https://wordpress.org/support/users/podz/)
 * (@podz)
 * [20 years, 11 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/folder-structure-on-web-host/#post-211187)
 * Themes: [http://themes.wordpress.net/](http://themes.wordpress.net/)
 *  Thread Starter [donellis](https://wordpress.org/support/users/donellis/)
 * (@donellis)
 * [20 years, 11 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/folder-structure-on-web-host/#post-211261)
 * Thanks again… I am very pleased with the software and the community here.
 * Cheers,
 * Don

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