Title: Help hiding root directory
Last modified: August 19, 2016

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# Help hiding root directory

 *  [chris56](https://wordpress.org/support/users/chris56/)
 * (@chris56)
 * [16 years, 10 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/help-hiding-root-directory/)
 * I stared another thread with this question but for some reason it was closed.
   Here’s my problem:
 * I have a shared hosting account and have several websites hosted on that account.
   The very first domain I hosted is the main domain on the hosting account. As 
   I add more domains, they are added as sub-folders.
 * For example: Lets say my main domain name is “examplesite.com”. Now I add a few
   more domains to the hosting account and one of them is “gypsyexample.com”. The“
   gypsyexample.com domain” is put on my hosting account and it is a sub-folder 
   of “examplesite.com”
 * I want to install WordPress on the “gypsyexample” domain and when I do it through
   my web host, I have to go through the “examplesite.com” domain to do it because
   that is the parent domain on my hosting account. As I’m going through the process
   of installing WordPress, I have to choose to install it in a folder like this–“
   www.examplesite.com/gypsyexample”. So I did this. Now, when I open the blog –
   in the address bar of the browser, all of the pages are showing “www.examplesite.
   com/gypsyexample”. I don’t want the parent directory to show up. I just want 
   the actual domain where I installed WordPress to show up.
 * How do I change things so when people go to various pages on the blog they don’t
   see the root directory before the domain the blog is hosted on?
 * Thanks so much for your help!

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 *  Thread Starter [chris56](https://wordpress.org/support/users/chris56/)
 * (@chris56)
 * [16 years, 10 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/help-hiding-root-directory/#post-1120336)
 * Just testing to see if people can post and answer my question.
 *  [Lucian Florian](https://wordpress.org/support/users/fldtrace/)
 * (@fldtrace)
 * [16 years, 10 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/help-hiding-root-directory/#post-1120354)
 * Try this [redirection](http://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/redirection/) plugin.
 *  [eviweblog](https://wordpress.org/support/users/eviweblog/)
 * (@eviweblog)
 * [16 years, 10 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/help-hiding-root-directory/#post-1120666)
 * Same problem over here. In my case the plugin isn’t working because in order 
   to get it to work wordpress must be active. I just don’t want to see the parent
   URL/directory when entering the weblog url.

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 * Last activity: [16 years, 10 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/help-hiding-root-directory/#post-1120666)
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