Title: Moving To Root Folder
Last modified: August 21, 2016

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# Moving To Root Folder

 *  [Grubbi](https://wordpress.org/support/users/grubbi/)
 * (@grubbi)
 * [12 years, 1 month ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/moving-to-root-folder/)
 * I currently have my wordpress in root/wordpress but just want it in the root 
   folder…do I have to reinstall or can I just copy across the files from the wordpress
   folder into my root? Thanks

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 *  [Senff – a11n](https://wordpress.org/support/users/senff/)
 * (@senff)
 * [12 years, 1 month ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/moving-to-root-folder/#post-4722895)
 * You can keep it in the **/wordpress** folder on the server, but point your main
   site to it by following these instructions:
 * [http://codex.wordpress.org/Giving_WordPress_Its_Own_Directory#Using_a_pre-existing_subdirectory_install](http://codex.wordpress.org/Giving_WordPress_Its_Own_Directory#Using_a_pre-existing_subdirectory_install)
 * If you really want to move it on the server, you can do that too. You’ll have
   to change the** WordPress Address (URL)** and **Site Address (URL)** to [http://www.yoursite.com](http://www.yoursite.com)
   first. Once you save that setting, you might get some error message that the 
   site can’t be found, but that’s ok. After this, you can move all files to the
   root of your server.
 *  Thread Starter [Grubbi](https://wordpress.org/support/users/grubbi/)
 * (@grubbi)
 * [12 years, 1 month ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/moving-to-root-folder/#post-4723117)
 * Where do I change the wordpress address and site address urls?
 *  [mlddev](https://wordpress.org/support/users/mlddev/)
 * (@mlddev)
 * [12 years, 1 month ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/moving-to-root-folder/#post-4723119)
 * After you log in to your WordPress admin you can make the change under Settings/
   General.
 * And, like Sneff stated, once you make the change and save the changes you will
   get an error (probably 500 Internal Server Error). Just go ahead and move your
   install files from the wordpress directory to the root of your domain.
 * You will then be able to log back into the admin through [http://yourdomainname.com/wp-login.php](http://yourdomainname.com/wp-login.php)
   instead of the [http://yourdomainname.com/wordpress/wp-login.php](http://yourdomainname.com/wordpress/wp-login.php)

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 * In: [Fixing WordPress](https://wordpress.org/support/forum/how-to-and-troubleshooting/)
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 * Last reply from: [mlddev](https://wordpress.org/support/users/mlddev/)
 * Last activity: [12 years, 1 month ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/moving-to-root-folder/#post-4723119)
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