Title: Issue with moving WordPress to root folder
Last modified: August 19, 2016

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# Issue with moving WordPress to root folder

 *  [peychaud](https://wordpress.org/support/users/peychaud/)
 * (@peychaud)
 * [17 years, 12 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/issue-with-moving-wordpress-to-root-folder/)
 * I installed WordPress into the directory /wordpress on my site a few days ago,
   and today I decided to make WordPress the root of my site.
 * I followed the instructions under the Settings tab and copied index.php to my
   root folder and changed its “./wp-blog-header.php” to “./wordpress/wp-blog-header.
   php”.
 * However, there was no .htaacess file in my wordpress directory. There is an .
   htaccess file in my root directory, but it doesn’t say anything about wordpress.
 * Since copying index.php to my root folder, the only problem I’ve noticed is that
   I no longer have the “edit this entry” option at the bottom of each main page
   posting even though I’m logged in as administrator. Is that a result of the missing.
   htaccess file? Any advice on what I need to do to get the “edit this entry” option
   to return?
 * And I have one other minor question. All my links are WordPress pages. When I
   set them up, I used the full url (ie [http://mysite.com/wordpress/?page_id=177](http://mysite.com/wordpress/?page_id=177))
 * After I moved the index.php file to my root folder, I tried removing “/wordpress”
   from a few URLs and was surprised to discover that my pages load fine whether
   their URLs include “/wordpress” or not.
 * Is one form right or preferable? Sorry if this is a stupid question, but I don’t
   want to risk creating two different versions of all my pages.

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 *  Thread Starter [peychaud](https://wordpress.org/support/users/peychaud/)
 * (@peychaud)
 * [17 years, 12 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/issue-with-moving-wordpress-to-root-folder/#post-769095)
 * I just realized that all the pages with the /wordpress/?page_id=999 show up with“
   edit this entry” whereas the ones that I removed /wordpress/ from the URLs do
   not show “edit this entry.”
 * So obviously there’s something there (and that something likely has something
   to do with .htaccess). Any ideas?
 *  [Tim Bowen](https://wordpress.org/support/users/creativeslice/)
 * (@creativeslice)
 * [17 years, 9 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/issue-with-moving-wordpress-to-root-folder/#post-769598)
 * I had the same issue and found that deleting all cookies for the domain fixed
   it and my “edit this entry” text was back.

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 * In: [Installing WordPress](https://wordpress.org/support/forum/installation/)
 * 2 replies
 * 2 participants
 * Last reply from: [Tim Bowen](https://wordpress.org/support/users/creativeslice/)
 * Last activity: [17 years, 9 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/issue-with-moving-wordpress-to-root-folder/#post-769598)
 * Status: not resolved

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