How to move installed wordpress from /temp to root folder?

  • dezekiel

    (@dezekiel)


    19 years, 10 months ago

    I need to move my worpress installation
    from a folder /temp1983 to
    / of my server – how to do this the most safest and easiest way possible?

    I also want that users browsing wont see any /temp folder thing only http://www.myhost.com/blabla.php

    Thanks on behalf of IGDA Finland!

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  • moshu

    (@moshu)

    19 years, 10 months ago

    1. You can always read about in the Codex:
    http://codex.wordpress.org/Moving_WordPress
    2. In your case here is a short guide. Follow it exactly!

    a) admin > Options > General: change the 2 URI values to the new location (root). Save. (don’t worry about the 404)
    b) Do NOT try to open your blog in a browser!!!
    c) FTP: move the WP files from the temp folder to the root
    d) now you can look at your blog in a browser

    EDIT. Your visitors will see example.com/index.php – never blahbla.php!

    wp_design

    (@wp_design)

    19 years, 10 months ago

    The above method works. However, I have another problem, the images & internal links become broken because they are pointing to the /temp/ folder.

    Any idea how to fix this, to use relative path instead of absolute?

    Note: I use Editor Monkey plugin to write posts.

    whooami

    (@whooami)

    19 years, 10 months ago

    Why is this so hard?

    if you have moved your install and the links to the images have then changed then either edit the links (!!) or if you have been smart enough to put all the images in one directory, move the whole damn directory so the path is the same as it was.

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