Title: installing wordpress on documentroot
Last modified: August 20, 2016

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# installing wordpress on documentroot

 *  [sangfroid](https://wordpress.org/support/users/sangfroid/)
 * (@sangfroid)
 * [14 years, 2 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/installing-wordpress-on-documentroot/)
 * Hello,
 * While trying to install wordpress 3.3.1 on the document root of my website, I
   am running into some strange issues.
 * I downloaded the tar file from [http://wordpress.org/latest.tar.gz](http://wordpress.org/latest.tar.gz)
   using wget and then unzipped in my document root directory.
 * But it unzips all files into a folder ‘wordpress’. For eg: if /www/mysite.com
   is my documentroot,then it creates a folder wordpress as /www/mysite.com/wordpress…
   I wanted all index.php and other files under /www/mysite.com…
 * When I tried to move files from wordpress directory to /www/mysite.com, the installation
   doesn’t work at all….
 * any ideas how to fix this ??? I don’t want ‘wordpress’ directory inside /www/
   mysite.com folder.

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 *  [jevets](https://wordpress.org/support/users/jevets/)
 * (@jevets)
 * [14 years, 2 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/installing-wordpress-on-documentroot/#post-2673392)
 * You could keep the wordpress folder and use this technique:
    [Giving_WordPress_Its_Own_Directory](http://codex.wordpress.org/Giving_WordPress_Its_Own_Directory)
 * You probably didn’t move every file. The `.htaccess` isn’t moved via the commands
   like `$> mv wordpress/* .`. You’d have to move it manually.
 * Also, check your server config. If you have a index.html, index.htm, or simliar
   default file, many servers load this by default before loading index.php.

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