Title: Moving wordpress directory.
Last modified: August 19, 2016

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# Moving wordpress directory.

 *  Resolved [tomskus](https://wordpress.org/support/users/tomskus/)
 * (@tomskus)
 * [17 years, 3 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/moving-wordpress-directory-1/)
 * Hi.
 * I currently have my wordpress (2.7) in my <user>/public_html/wordpress/ directory
   and I’d really like to have it as my public_html directory. I have a symlink 
   to www in <user>/ i.e
 * www -> public_html/
 * Clumsily I have:
 * index.html -> /home/<user>/public_html/wordpress/
 * Needless to say spiders and robots don’t like this at all and fill my error logs.
 * Is it too much to think that I can just move everything up one directory? Or 
   is there a bit more to it?
 * Many thanks in advance.

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 *  [jimesten](https://wordpress.org/support/users/jimesten/)
 * (@jimesten)
 * [17 years, 3 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/moving-wordpress-directory-1/#post-946059)
 * easy move .. just update your wp-config.php file to reflect the correct path 
   and you’re golden.
 * –Jim
 *  Thread Starter [tomskus](https://wordpress.org/support/users/tomskus/)
 * (@tomskus)
 * [17 years, 3 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/moving-wordpress-directory-1/#post-946068)
 * Thanks Jim, but wp-config.php doesn’t seem to have anywhere to define the path.
 *  Moderator [Ipstenu (Mika Epstein)](https://wordpress.org/support/users/ipstenu/)
 * (@ipstenu)
 * 🏳️‍🌈 Advisor and Activist
 * [17 years, 3 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/moving-wordpress-directory-1/#post-946069)
 * Check out this as well [Giving WordPress Its Own Directory](http://codex.wordpress.org/Giving_WordPress_Its_Own_Directory)
 * You can get rid of symlinks and let WordPress handle it without moving anything.
   Just add a new index.php and .htaccess to your public_html and set it up.
 *  Thread Starter [tomskus](https://wordpress.org/support/users/tomskus/)
 * (@tomskus)
 * [17 years, 3 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/moving-wordpress-directory-1/#post-946096)
 * Thanks to jim and Ipstenu.
 * The old, ‘if it ain’t broke don’t fix it’ approach worked a treat. Followed that
   article and it’s the biz.
 * Thanks again.

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 * Last activity: [17 years, 3 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/moving-wordpress-directory-1/#post-946096)
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