Title: Help me please
Last modified: August 20, 2016

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# Help me please

 *  [rgrann12](https://wordpress.org/support/users/rgrann12/)
 * (@rgrann12)
 * [13 years, 7 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/help-me-please-22/)
 * Just downloaded wordpress and was trying to set everything up and I was attempting
   to change the wordpress url thinking it would be easy since I was following step
   by step instructions. Turns out I have no idea what i am supposed to do and I
   can’t go back in and change the url. Was following [http://codex.wordpress.org/Giving_WordPress_Its_Own_Directory](http://codex.wordpress.org/Giving_WordPress_Its_Own_Directory)
   and got stuck after step 5 and don’t know what to do. Can someone please explain
   to me what to do, in simple english. I am not great with computers, so as simple
   as possible (i.e. what file to open, where it is, what to do) thank you for any
   help, or if you can get me back to previous wordpress url that would be even 
   better. Here are the steps left i need to complete. I am using 000webhost if 
   that is helpful
 * 6. Move your WordPress core files to the new location (WordPress address).
    7.
   Copy (NOT MOVE!) the index.php and .htaccess files from the WordPress directory
   into the root directory of your site (Blog address). The .htaccess file is invisible,
   so you may have to set your FTP client to show hidden files. If you are not using
   pretty permalinks, then you may not have a .htaccess file. If you are running
   WordPress on a Windows (IIS) server and are using pretty permalinks, you’ll have
   a web.config rather than a .htaccess file in your WordPress directory. As stated
   above, copy (don’t move) the index.php file to your root directory, but MOVE (
   DON’T COPY) the web.config file to your root directory.
 * 8.Open your root directory’s index.php file in a text editor
 * 9. Change the following and save the file. Change the line that says:
    require(‘./
   wp-blog-header.php’); to the following, using your directory name for the WordPress
   core files: require(‘./wordpress/wp-blog-header.php’);
 * 10. Login to the new location. It might now be [http://example.com/wordpress/wp-admin/](http://example.com/wordpress/wp-admin/)
 * 11. If you have set up Permalinks, go to the Permalinks panel and update your
   Permalink structure. WordPress will automatically update your .htaccess file 
   if it has the appropriate file permissions. If WordPress can’t write to your .
   htaccess file, it will display the new rewrite rules to you, which you should
   manually copy into your .htaccess file (in the same directory as the main index.
   php file.)

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 *  Thread Starter [rgrann12](https://wordpress.org/support/users/rgrann12/)
 * (@rgrann12)
 * [13 years, 7 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/help-me-please-22/#post-3113480)
 * I was able to go through filezilla and update the code to get the site url back
   to the original. I am now able to use wordpress again; should i delete that code
   though? And I am still looking for a simple way to change the wordpress url. 
   Thank you.
 *  [fonglh](https://wordpress.org/support/users/fonglh/)
 * (@fonglh)
 * [13 years, 7 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/help-me-please-22/#post-3113617)
 * To change the URL, see
 * [http://codex.wordpress.org/Changing_The_Site_URL](http://codex.wordpress.org/Changing_The_Site_URL)

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