How to get rid of the WordPress folder from URL without moving the files > .htac

Resolved essah77
(@essah77)

7 years, 9 months ago
I have two WP installations on one domain and two folders.

How to get rid of the WP installation folder > watercolorpainting.com/watercolor-painting-tutorials/ without moving the wordpress installation to the root domain?

The .htaccess rewrite rule is the following:
```
# BEGIN WordPress
<IfModule mod_rewrite.c>
RewriteEngine On
RewriteBase /watercolor-painting-tutorials/
RewriteRule ^index\.php$ - [L]
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-f
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-d
RewriteRule . /watercolor-painting-tutorials/index.php [L]
</IfModule>
```
I want my links without the WP folder like this:

watercolorpainting.com/for-beginners/

not like this: watercolorpainting.com/watercolor-painting-tutorials/for-beginners/

The solutions I found doesn´t fix my problem, because I have already an existing WP installation on the root with following .htaccess rewrite rules:
```
# BEGIN WordPress
<IfModule mod_rewrite.c>
RewriteEngine On
RewriteBase /
RewriteRule ^index\.php$ - [L]
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-f
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-d
RewriteRule . /index.php [L]
</IfModule>
# END WordPress
```
Can someone help me? Thanks!

https://wordpress.org/plugins/htaccess/

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James
(@volcommky)

7 years, 9 months ago

.htaccess is directory based, so if a directory has the file, it takes over

In your root .htaccess file, have you tried adding a RewriteRule for it?
Maybe something along the lines
RewriteRule ^watercolor-painting-tutorials/(.*)$ wordpress/$1 [NC,L]
Thread Starter essah77
(@essah77)

7 years, 9 months ago
Thank you for answering.
I have added your RewriteRule in the .htaccess of the “root” folder “/staging/” where a WP installation is running on (actually from a subdomain http://www.staging.watercolorpainting.com):

</IfModule>
# END W3TC Browser Cache
# BEGIN WordPress
```
<IfModule mod_rewrite.c>
RewriteEngine On
RewriteBase /
RewriteRule ^index\.php$ - [L]
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-f
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-d
RewriteRule . /index.php [L]

RewriteCond %{HTTP_HOST} ^(www.)?watercolorpainting.com$
RewriteRule ^(/)?$ watercolor-painting-tutorials [L]

</IfModule>
```
Now I get a 404 page on: http://watercolorpainting.com/watercolor-painting-tutorials/ (because I changed the Site URL). Your ReqriteRule doesn´t have any impact.

What´s next? Thank you!
Plugin Author bestwebsoft
(@bestwebsoft)

7 years, 8 months ago

Hi,

Unfortunately, it is impossible to do using our plugin. Maybe this article will be helpful – https://codex.wordpress.org/Giving_WordPress_Its_Own_Directory.

Sincerely,
BestWebSoft Support Team
Thread Starter essah77
(@essah77)

7 years, 8 months ago
The situation has changed a little bit:

Root: https://watercolorpainting.com/
Root WP install (moved from subdomain): https://watercolorpainting.com/staging
Second WP install: https://watercolorpainting.com/watercolor-painting-tutorials

This is the .htaccess (rewrite rules) from https://watercolorpainting.com/staging:
```
<IfModule mod_rewrite.c>
RewriteEngine On
RewriteBase /
RewriteRule ^index\.php$ - [L]
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-f
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-d
RewriteRule . /index.php [L]

RewriteCond %{HTTP_HOST} ^staging.watercolorpainting.com
RewriteRule ^(.*)$ https://watercolorpainting.com/staging/$1 [L,NC,QSA]

</IfModule>
```
This is the .htaccess (rewrite rules) from https://watercolorpainting.com/watercolor-painting-tutorials/:
```
<IfModule mod_rewrite.c>
RewriteEngine On
RewriteBase /watercolor-painting-tutorials/
RewriteRule ^index\.php$ - [L]
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-f
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-d
RewriteRule . /watercolor-painting-tutorials/index.php [L]
</IfModule>
```
I understand, that we have a conflict between the rewrite rules in both installations.

My question is: Is it possible to say the these URLs (…/watercolor-painting-tutorials/) belongs to this installation (…/watercolor-painting-tutorials/) in the .htaccess file of https://watercolorpainting.com/staging ?

Thank you James and bestwebsoft for your answers. I tried it. It doesn´t work. Maybe I´ve done it wrong. Can you please post me the exact code and tell me in which directory/ .htaccess I should add the rewrite rules?

Btw: we´re using https://www.cloudflare.com/. Is there any possibility to solve this problem?
Plugin Author bestwebsoft
(@bestwebsoft)

7 years, 7 months ago

Hi,

Unfortunately, there are no chances that your site will work correctly after implementing the desired functionality since it could cause problems in WordPress core (for example if you have pages on both sites with the same slug). Please try to create a network on your site (https://codex.wordpress.org/Create_A_Network) and configure it using WordPress MU Domain Mapping ( https://wordpress.org/plugins/wordpress-mu-domain-mapping/).

Sincerely,
BestWebSoft Support Team

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