Title: Install WordPress on root?
Last modified: August 19, 2016

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# Install WordPress on root?

 *  [danielwerner](https://wordpress.org/support/users/danielwerner/)
 * (@danielwerner)
 * [16 years, 4 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/install-wordpress-on-root/)
 * Hi!
 * I have a domain with several blogs under it, [http://www.domain.com/hello1](http://www.domain.com/hello1),/
   hello2 etc. [http://www.domain.com](http://www.domain.com) is redirected to /
   hello1 for the time being.
 * Now I want to create a new wordpress-blog in my root-folder, but I’m a bit afraid
   to mess around in it (I don’t want to screw up any already existing blogs by 
   uploading wordpress in the root-folders where they are located). I thought I 
   could solve it by creating a new folder in root (/mainsite), installing wordpress,
   and set in the wordpress setup that it should redirect itself to [http://www.domain.com](http://www.domain.com).
   But no. When I did that my browser just displayed the root with all its folders
   in plain text. So I had to redirect the root to /hello1 again.
 * How can I do this? I GUESS you could just install wordpress directly into root,
   but as I said, I’m afraid that’s gonna screw up .htaccess.
 * Please help! 🙂

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 *  [wordprest](https://wordpress.org/support/users/wordprest/)
 * (@wordprest)
 * [16 years, 4 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/install-wordpress-on-root/#post-1291293)
 * you have to edit your .htaccess file with new home url.

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## Tags

 * [htaccess](https://wordpress.org/support/topic-tag/htaccess/)
 * [installation](https://wordpress.org/support/topic-tag/installation/)
 * [root](https://wordpress.org/support/topic-tag/root/)

 * In: [Installing WordPress](https://wordpress.org/support/forum/installation/)
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 * Last activity: [16 years, 4 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/install-wordpress-on-root/#post-1291293)
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