Permalink Settings still include /wordpress subdirectory

  • kinnybee

    (@kinnybee)


    11 years, 7 months ago

    I have been googling for hours and I am ready to give up…

    My site is at http://www.kenbussell.com.

    I have wordpress installed in the subdirectory /wordpress. I also have other non-wordpress sites in their own directories within the root web folder on my server. This is not technically multi-site, but it is similar enough that I thought this would be the best place to post this.

    I moved the index.php and .htaccess files into the root and edited accordingly as per these instructions: http://codex.wordpress.org/Giving_WordPress_Its_Own_Directory (“Using a pre-existing subdirectory install”).

    All of my pages are accessible without the /wordpress subdirectory in the url (example: kenbussell.com/about). So this is good and what I want.

    The problem is that adding a new page creates links in the menu bar that include the /wordpress subdirectory. So when I click on the about me link in the menu, it takes me to kenbussell.com/wordpress/about, even though kenbussell.com/about is what I want, and kenbussell.com/about works fine if I type it into the browser manually.

    When i go to permalink settings, all of the options include /wordpress in the url. I want the permalink settings to NOT have /wordpress in the url, so that new pages and posts are created with links that DO NOT have /wordpress in them.

    This is driving me nuts. Please help.

    1. How do I fix all my old links so that /wordpress is removed?

    2. How do I make sure that new links do not include /wordpress?

    Thanks.

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  • Moderator Ipstenu (Mika Epstein)

    (@ipstenu)

    🏳️‍🌈 Advisor and Activist

    11 years, 7 months ago

    kenbussell.com/about is a 500 and no, this is NOT multisite and no, that was not the right forum. Sorry but Multisite is a special beast.

    What’s in your .htaccess?

    What are your home and site URLs?

    Thread Starter kinnybee

    (@kinnybee)

    11 years, 7 months ago

    Thanks for your help… So now I guess I have an additional issue that kenbussell.com is not correctly pointing to http://www.kenbussell.com? My desktop browser automatically switches to www but my mobile browser returns a 500 error as you mentioned. Is this an issue with my domain manager settings (namecheap)?

    The .htaccess file has the following:

    # BEGIN WordPress
    <IfModule mod_rewrite.c>
    RewriteEngine On
    RewriteBase /wordpress/
    RewriteRule ^index\.php$ – [L]
    RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-f
    RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-d
    RewriteRule . /wordpress/index.php [L]
    </IfModule>

    # END WordPress

    I know I should probably take the /wordpress out of there, but I’m not sure what to do with the “.”

    The home (wordpress) and site URLs are the same: http://www.kenbussell.com/wordpress

    The home address is greyed and uneditable from the settings menu (hard coded?).
    When I try to change the site address I get a “could not create directory” error. I googled this and could find nothing that would let me change it…

    Thanks again for your help. I obviously have no idea what I am doing.

    Thread Starter kinnybee

    (@kinnybee)

    11 years, 7 months ago

    Should I move this to a different forum?

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