Title: Subdirectory Install Problem
Last modified: August 30, 2016

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# Subdirectory Install Problem

 *  [ggdesigns](https://wordpress.org/support/users/ggdesigns/)
 * (@ggdesigns)
 * [10 years, 10 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/subdirectory-install-problem-1/)
 * When I have a client who wants a new site design but still wants to keep their
   old site up and running until I’m finished I do a subdirectory install. When 
   finished setting up the new site I follow codex for Using a pre-exisiting subdirectory
   install. For some reason this time, when I did so, it would bring me to a white
   page with content but no layout, images, css. I have no idea why. When I put 
   everything back the way it was prior to following codex, the site is there at
   the subdirectory install location.
 * [http://algiersurgentcare.com/wp/](http://algiersurgentcare.com/wp/)
 * So what I did was change the site address to [http://algiersurgentcare.com](http://algiersurgentcare.com),
   copy the .htaccess file and index.php file into the root directory. Change the
   line in the index.php file that says: require( dirname(_FILE_ ) – ‘/wp-blog-header.
   php’ );
    to require( dirname(_FILE_ ) – ‘/wp/wp-blog-header.php’ );, update my
   permalinks.
 * So after doing the above, absolutely nothing happened. So I contacted the host
   provider who said I need to change the domain path to point to the wp directory.
   When I do that I get the white page and I can no longer log into wp admin. I 
   had to place the following 2 lines of code in my theme’s functions.php file to
   get back to wp-admin:
    update_option(‘siteurl’,’[http://algiersurgentcare.com/wp&#8217](http://algiersurgentcare.com/wp&#8217););
   update_option(‘home’,’[http://algiersurgentcare.com/wp&#8217](http://algiersurgentcare.com/wp&#8217););
   Then remove those 2 lines of code once back in.
 * So I’m back to square one. The host provider doesn’t have any other suggestions.
   Does anyone know what I might be doing wrong or anything else I can try?

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 * Last activity: [10 years, 10 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/subdirectory-install-problem-1/)
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