Title: Moving WordPress over from testing folder
Last modified: September 17, 2016

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# Moving WordPress over from testing folder

 *  [ivcatalina](https://wordpress.org/support/users/ivcatalina/)
 * (@ivcatalina)
 * [9 years, 9 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/moving-wordpress-over-from-testing-folder/)
 * This might not be related to WordPress specifically, but I know it might change
   the WP settings so feel it needs to go here. I currently have my WordPress site
   residing in a folder ‘/wp’ for testing purposes. I would now like to make this
   the main site, so that when people visit [http://www.mywebsite.com](http://www.mywebsite.com)
   they get the same content as [http://www.mywebsite.com/wp](http://www.mywebsite.com/wp)…
   BUT … I want to leave everything in the ‘/wp’ folder if possible. Can I do that
   with just redirecting things in the .htaccess file or will it mess up all my 
   links, image links, etc? What’s the best way to do this for WordPress? TIA!

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 *  [Mark Ratledge](https://wordpress.org/support/users/songdogtech/)
 * (@songdogtech)
 * [9 years, 9 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/moving-wordpress-over-from-testing-folder/#post-8193808)
 * See [Giving WordPress Its Own Directory « Using a pre-existing subdirectory install](https://codex.wordpress.org/Giving_WordPress_Its_Own_Directory#Using_a_pre-existing_subdirectory_install)

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 * In: [Fixing WordPress](https://wordpress.org/support/forum/how-to-and-troubleshooting/)
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 * Last reply from: [annawilson852](https://wordpress.org/support/users/annawilson852/)
 * Last activity: [9 years, 9 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/moving-wordpress-over-from-testing-folder/#post-8193849)
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