Title: Subdirectory install problem Last modified: August 20, 2016 --- # Subdirectory install problem * [yucarp](https://wordpress.org/support/users/yucarp/) * (@yucarp) * [14 years, 8 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/subdirectory-install-problem/) * Hello world! I have one problem. I am using one script on root and want to make more content on website and created subfolder copy in it wordpress, and installed it. Ok when I type [http://www.mydomain.com](http://www.mydomain.com) everything is fine, but when type [http://www.mydomain.com/subfolder](http://www.mydomain.com/subfolder) everything is ok there is sample page etc…, but when try to acess to admin area wp-admin, then it redirecting me to [http://www.mydomain.com](http://www.mydomain.com)( root directory). I was trying to play with .htacess file but not solved problem. Does anybody had that problem, or maybe have solution? Thanks Viewing 12 replies - 1 through 12 (of 12 total) * Moderator [Ipstenu (Mika Epstein)](https://wordpress.org/support/users/ipstenu/) * (@ipstenu) * 🏳️‍🌈 Advisor and Activist * [14 years, 8 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/subdirectory-install-problem/#post-2286089) * Are you using WordPress or do you have two separate installs on two separate databases? * Thread Starter [yucarp](https://wordpress.org/support/users/yucarp/) * (@yucarp) * [14 years, 8 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/subdirectory-install-problem/#post-2286145) * Don’t usin wordpress. Two different databases, on the root is some different script, nor wordpresss, and I would like to install wordpress in subfolder. * Moderator [Ipstenu (Mika Epstein)](https://wordpress.org/support/users/ipstenu/) * (@ipstenu) * 🏳️‍🌈 Advisor and Activist * [14 years, 8 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/subdirectory-install-problem/#post-2286177) * Okay. What you;re using is NOT MultiSite (which is using ONE WordPress install and database to manage multiple sites). * Moving this out of Multisite. * It’s most likely that when you copied the files over, you didn’t set the wp-config. php and .htaccess correctly. Check those or, if this is all new and nothing’s installed, delete the files and start over from a fresh download, NOT a copy. * Thread Starter [yucarp](https://wordpress.org/support/users/yucarp/) * (@yucarp) * [14 years, 8 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/subdirectory-install-problem/#post-2286183) * Hi. Thanks! When I installed wordpress in subdirectory I didn’t see .htacess file and I had to make manually wp-config.php. I didn’t understand what exactly to do? To make g=fresh installation, but what then. Maybe to put all at the same mysql like main script in the root is installed? Thanks! * Moderator [Ipstenu (Mika Epstein)](https://wordpress.org/support/users/ipstenu/) * (@ipstenu) * 🏳️‍🌈 Advisor and Activist * [14 years, 8 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/subdirectory-install-problem/#post-2286206) * How did you install WP to begin with? * Thread Starter [yucarp](https://wordpress.org/support/users/yucarp/) * (@yucarp) * [14 years, 8 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/subdirectory-install-problem/#post-2286209) * I made folder in [http://www.domain.com/folder](http://www.domain.com/folder) then copy wordpress installation to that folder. Made mysql for wordpress script, than made wp-config.php with the model of wp-congif-sample.php and insert mysql parameters. Than start [http://www.domain.com/folder](http://www.domain.com/folder) and install wordpress. Everything is ok, but when try to eneter dashboard or anything in admin it redirect me to [http://www.domain.com](http://www.domain.com) I have .htacess file in the root and that file is for other (root) main script. It looks: * #Options +FollowSymLinks AddDefaultCharset UTF-8 RewriteEngine On RewriteBase // * RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-f RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-d RewriteCond%{ REQUEST_FILENAME} !-l # Main URL rewriting. RewriteRule ^(.*)$ index.php?$1 [ L,QSA] * ## DISABLE HOTLINKING RewriteEngine on RewriteCond %{HTTP_REFERER} !^$ RewriteCond%{ HTTP_REFERER} !^http://(www\.)/?domain.com?.*$ [NC] RewriteRule .*\.(gif|jpg| jpeg|bmp|png|js|css)$ [http://www.domain.com/](http://www.domain.com/) [R,NC] * ## Send to WWW. RewriteCond %{HTTP_HOST} !^www\.domain\.com RewriteRule ^(.*) $ [http://www.domain.com/](http://www.domain.com/) * ErrorDocument 400 [http://www.domain.com/](http://www.domain.com/) ErrorDocument 401 [http://www.domain.com/](http://www.domain.com/) ErrorDocument 403 [http://www.domain.com/](http://www.domain.com/) ErrorDocument 404 [http://www.domain.com/](http://www.domain.com/) ErrorDocument 500 [http://www.domain.com/](http://www.domain.com/) * Maybe there is problem, I don’t know? * Moderator [Ipstenu (Mika Epstein)](https://wordpress.org/support/users/ipstenu/) * (@ipstenu) * 🏳️‍🌈 Advisor and Activist * [14 years, 8 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/subdirectory-install-problem/#post-2286211) * Yeah, you’re doing it the hard(er) way 🙂 * Okay Try this on. * 1) Copy the files into domain.com/wordpress 2) Create a database 3) Go to [http://domain.com/wordpress](http://domain.com/wordpress) in your browser and follow the directions there. * As for your .htaccess, was that the one from your ROOT install (which IIRC is not WordPress) or from the /wordpress folder? * Thread Starter [yucarp](https://wordpress.org/support/users/yucarp/) * (@yucarp) * [14 years, 8 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/subdirectory-install-problem/#post-2286212) * Hi. I did that. Copied all files in subfolder, but when navigate to the installation( subfolder) word press told me that I have to create wp-config.php what I did. I followed directions after, but problem persist. There is now just one .htacess file in the root which I sent you up. There is no .htacess in subfolder where is wordpress installation and wp files. Can that be so big problem, I was not only sure? * Moderator [Ipstenu (Mika Epstein)](https://wordpress.org/support/users/ipstenu/) * (@ipstenu) * 🏳️‍🌈 Advisor and Activist * [14 years, 8 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/subdirectory-install-problem/#post-2286249) * Are you copying the files from your other install or are you uploading them fresh from a WordPress zip? * Not having a .htaccess in your subfolder just means you can’t use Pretty Permalinks. Don’t worry about that yet. * Thing here is, IF you could get to domain.com/subfolder and go through the WordPress steps to install, then you WERE able to get into the subfolder for a while, right? * Thread Starter [yucarp](https://wordpress.org/support/users/yucarp/) * (@yucarp) * [14 years, 8 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/subdirectory-install-problem/#post-2286255) * Yes that is right. I copied fresh installation in subfolder. I am able to go to subfolder, and get installation instruction, but when install wp, everything is ok, but when try to go to admin, there appears wp-login.php, when put user and password than it returns me to the [http://www.domain.com](http://www.domain.com). I was trying to fix that and think that is error 500, which is defined at htacess file which I post here. All folder wp-admin is trapped, but cant figure why? * Thread Starter [yucarp](https://wordpress.org/support/users/yucarp/) * (@yucarp) * [14 years, 8 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/subdirectory-install-problem/#post-2286256) * Problem solved: * [http://lee-jones.com/blog/fix-error-500-internal-server-error/](http://lee-jones.com/blog/fix-error-500-internal-server-error/) * Thanks for your time Ipstenu! * [helle1979b](https://wordpress.org/support/users/helle1979b/) * (@helle1979b) * [14 years, 5 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/subdirectory-install-problem/#post-2286373) * Hi Ipstenu * I hope you see this post as it seems like you know a lot about root copied to subdirectory and I hope you can help me out. * You see … I am not big on development, but here goes. I want to make an English site (my current site is in Danish). The site should not be a complete copy on content, but the theme will be the same. So I copied my entire setup from the root on the ftp to a new /en folder I created. * Now, I wanted to make a second database for the English site but that is not possible with my host. So my friend created new $table prefixes in the database and added a site url so I thought it would work – and so did he. But when entering [http://www.domain.com](http://www.domain.com) I get an 500 error and it is not possible to log into [http://www.domain.com/en/wp-admin](http://www.domain.com/en/wp-admin) * I am really lost here and has spent ages searching but I cant seem to find out what is wrong. I am not a coder though, so it may be why. So tonight I tried changing the $tables prefix section of the wp-config.php file to the new name, but it did not do any difference. I also tried changing the index.php header file to /en, but that does not help either. * So I changed it back to the normal copy of my install in the root. * Well … I hope you can help me out …. * Thanks for taking the time to read this. * Kind regards, Helle Viewing 12 replies - 1 through 12 (of 12 total) The topic ‘Subdirectory install problem’ is closed to new replies. ## Tags * [redirect](https://wordpress.org/support/topic-tag/redirect/) * [subdirectory](https://wordpress.org/support/topic-tag/subdirectory/) * [subfolder](https://wordpress.org/support/topic-tag/subfolder/) * In: [Fixing WordPress](https://wordpress.org/support/forum/how-to-and-troubleshooting/) * 12 replies * 3 participants * Last reply from: [helle1979b](https://wordpress.org/support/users/helle1979b/) * Last activity: [14 years, 5 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/subdirectory-install-problem/#post-2286373) * Status: not resolved ## Topics ### Topics with no replies ### Non-support topics ### Resolved topics ### Unresolved topics ### All topics