Easy steps:
1. Go into your admin > Options > General
2. Change the two URI values from wordpress to blog
3. Do not try to open your blog!
4. Repeat: do NOT try to open your blog at this moment:)
5. Open your FTP and rename the wordpress folder to blog
6. Now you can enjoy your blog at the new address
Easiest way would be to:
1. Change the WordPress and Blog addresses under Options > General to what the new url will be.
2. Through an ftp program (or online file manager if your host provides you with such), change the name of your ‘wordpress’ directory to ‘blog’.
Notes: #1 should be done *just before* #2. If for some reason #2 cannot be performed, create the ‘blog’ directory and upload your WordPress installation to it.
Further info:
http://codex.wordpress.org/Moving_WordPress
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That worked, Thanks guys. How do I need to have my files set up in FTP if I wanted by blog to be at http://www.bigfatknot.blog.com or http://www.blog.bigfatknot.com ?
The first one is impossible… unless you own a domain “blog.com”.
For the second you have to set up a subdomain called “blog” on your domain – which, I suppose, is “bigfatknot.com”.
Warning: if your server doesn’t let you set up a real subdomain, i.e. instead will redirect/point to yourdomain.com/blog – then you will have a lot of troubles with the permalinks.
For the first (under your regular domain, and not …blog.com), you want to move (or rather, upload) your WordPress installation to your web site’s root. You can also set things up so the WordPress admin stuff sits in a subdirectory, and the blog is at the root (see the section on “Giving WordPress its Own Directory…” at the link above).
For the second, that would depend on how your host sets up subdomains.
