Title: Redirect from WordPress directory
Last modified: August 19, 2016

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# Redirect from WordPress directory

 *  Resolved [jeremycherfas](https://wordpress.org/support/users/jeremycherfas/)
 * (@jeremycherfas)
 * [18 years, 5 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/redirect-from-wordpress-directory/)
 * I used to have my blog at jeremycherfas.net/wp working fine there and at wp.jeremycherfas.
   net. Then, after an upgrade, it stopped working, but I didn’t notice for an age.
   So I cannot remember exactly how I had set it up to ensure that both mydomain/
   wp and wp.mydomain went to the blog page.
 * I tried a few options but none seemed to work.
 * Then I followed the instructions at [http://codex.wordpress.org/Giving_WordPress_Its_Own_Directory](http://codex.wordpress.org/Giving_WordPress_Its_Own_Directory)
   and the blog now works fine at jeremycherfas.net, which is OK. But if anyone 
   goes to jeremycherfas.net/wp they get a Not Found. This is because there is still
   an index.php at jeremycherfas.net/wp but if I simply delete that then people 
   get You do not have permission.
 * What’s the best way to get jeremycherfas.net/wp to point to jeremycherfas.net?
   I guess I could make an index.html page that contains just a redirect. But that
   will not work if someone comes looking for a specific post at jeremycherfas.net/
   wp/specificpost
 * I don’t really know enough about htaccess to craft my own redirect under wp
 * Can someone help with the code I need to ensure that all pages that begin jeremycherfas.
   net/wp/ are redirected to jeremycherfas.net ?
 * Thanks

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 *  Moderator [Samuel Wood (Otto)](https://wordpress.org/support/users/otto42/)
 * (@otto42)
 * WordPress.org Admin
 * [18 years, 5 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/redirect-from-wordpress-directory/#post-665771)
 * Well, we’d need more information to understand your setup more (contents of htaccess
   files, how you did have it working, etc), but my general advice would be to stop
   messing about and pick one or the other. Having multiple URLs is not good for
   search engines (they see duplicated content and ding you down for it), and it’s
   not good for your users.
 * Pick a single location. Get WordPress working there. Leave it there. Don’t try
   to get all clever on it with several different URLs and such.
 *  Thread Starter [jeremycherfas](https://wordpress.org/support/users/jeremycherfas/)
 * (@jeremycherfas)
 * [18 years, 5 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/redirect-from-wordpress-directory/#post-665791)
 * To be honest, I don’t know how I had it working. That was my problem; I couldn’t
   remember how I had set it up.
 * I’m happy to go with my current set-up henceforth. But there are links out there
   that refer to the two different URLs.
 * How would you recommend me to deal with the file not found errors when people
   go to the URL?
 * Would it make sense to have a page there explaining what had happened and a redirect
   after, say, 10 seconds to the main blog page?
 * Thanks
 *  Moderator [Samuel Wood (Otto)](https://wordpress.org/support/users/otto42/)
 * (@otto42)
 * WordPress.org Admin
 * [18 years, 5 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/redirect-from-wordpress-directory/#post-665809)
 * > _How would you recommend me to deal with the file not found errors when people
   > go to the URL?_
 * If the URLs are pretty close to compatible, then simply redirect from one to 
   the other using .htaccess files. Something like this:
 * `RewriteRule ^/wp/(.*) http://wp.jeremycherfas.net/$1 [R=301,L]`
 *  Thread Starter [jeremycherfas](https://wordpress.org/support/users/jeremycherfas/)
 * (@jeremycherfas)
 * [18 years, 5 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/redirect-from-wordpress-directory/#post-665823)
 * Thanks. I’ll try that. Just one further question, if you don’t mind. Does that
   go in the htaccess of the /wp directory? I assume it does, but I want to be sure
   in case I mess up.
 *  Moderator [Samuel Wood (Otto)](https://wordpress.org/support/users/otto42/)
 * (@otto42)
 * WordPress.org Admin
 * [18 years, 5 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/redirect-from-wordpress-directory/#post-665831)
 * Yes, you’re correct about the location. This assumes that nothing else is in 
   that directory, of course.
 *  Thread Starter [jeremycherfas](https://wordpress.org/support/users/jeremycherfas/)
 * (@jeremycherfas)
 * [18 years, 5 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/redirect-from-wordpress-directory/#post-665965)
 * I’ve tried as you suggested, and adding that line to the htaccess file, but it
   didn’t work. Can you help some more?
 * Here’s the situation:
 * My blog is at jeremycherfas.net/
 * WordPress is installed at jeremycherfas.net/wp/
 * At public_html (which I believe is effectively at jeremycherfas.net) I have this
   htaccess:
 *     ```
       SecFilterEngine On
       SecFilterSelective "POST_PAYLOAD" "6x.to" "allow,nolog"
       # BEGIN WordPress
       <IfModule mod_rewrite.c>
       RewriteEngine On
       RewriteBase /
       RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-f
       RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-d
       RewriteRule . /index.php [L]
       </IfModule>
   
       # END WordPress
       ```
   
 * At jeremycherfas.net/wp/ I have an almost identical htaccess:
 *     ```
       SecFilterEngine On
       SecFilterSelective "POST_PAYLOAD" "6x.to" "allow,nolog"
       # BEGIN WordPress
       <IfModule mod_rewrite.c>
       RewriteEngine On
       RewriteBase /wp/
       RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-f
       RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-d
       # RewriteRule ^/wp/(.*) http://www.jeremycherfas.net/$1 [R=301,L]
       RewriteRule . /wp/index.php [L]
       </IfModule>
   
       # END WordPress
       ```
   
 * You can see that I commented out the rewriterule you supplied, because it did
   not seem to work.
 * As I understand it, the $1 reference in the rewriterule says add whatever came
   after the /wp/ to [http://www.jeremycherfas.net/](http://www.jeremycherfas.net/)
   which is exactly what I want it to do. And the [L] means it is the last rule 
   so the next one is skipped anyway.
 * I tried the same rule in the higher directory and it did not work there either.
 * All help very gratefully received; I would really like to get this working!
 * Thanks again.
 *  Moderator [Samuel Wood (Otto)](https://wordpress.org/support/users/otto42/)
 * (@otto42)
 * WordPress.org Admin
 * [18 years, 5 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/redirect-from-wordpress-directory/#post-665997)
 * Ah. Okay, no I assumed that the wp directory was empty. If that’s the actual 
   location, then there’s nothing you can do about it. If you have WordPress in 
   wp then that’s where it is. You actually have to move it somewhere else if you
   want it to be somewhere else.
 * What you’ve explained so far is basically a horrific mess. Given that situation,
   I’d backup the database, scrap WordPress, reinstall from scratch, and restore
   the database to get everything back. But that’s just me.
 * Decide what you want to be the case as far as your URLs are concerned and explain
   what actually *is* the case currently and then you can determine how to get there
   from here.
 * The fact that you have two different .htaccess files is also a problem. One of
   these is unnecessary, the other is incorrect. This is why I call it “a mess”.
 *  Thread Starter [jeremycherfas](https://wordpress.org/support/users/jeremycherfas/)
 * (@jeremycherfas)
 * [18 years, 5 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/redirect-from-wordpress-directory/#post-666028)
 * I agree that it is a mess, though maybe not horrific. And that is why I want 
   to clean it up.
 * Thinking more about it, this could be a hosting issue. My host has virtual domains,
   whereby mydomain.com/blog/ is the same as blog.mydomain.com
 * That’s certainly what I used to have, operationally, and that is where I want
   to be again.
 * So I think I will put everything back as it was and take this up with the hosting
   company. You may think this is what I should have done in the first place.
 * Thanks for all your help.
 *  Thread Starter [jeremycherfas](https://wordpress.org/support/users/jeremycherfas/)
 * (@jeremycherfas)
 * [18 years, 5 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/redirect-from-wordpress-directory/#post-666048)
 * I now suspect it **was** hosting. I went back in, cleaned up, restored the status
   quo, and things **seem** to be operational.
 * Thanks for the help.

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