In that case, try reviewing http://codex.wordpress.org/Giving_WordPress_Its_Own_Directory and check that you’re got WP set up correctly.
Thanks, that’s what i followed to set it up. I think the problem is with step 4 “In the box for Blog address (URL): change the address to the root directory’s URL. Example: http://example.com”
This appears to require that the root be a directory (hence the trailing slash). However the site i’m developing requires that the root is a page which is to have the filename discussions.php (the index page being used for other something else). If i put http://example.com/discussions.php as the blog address setting it seems to take discussions.php as a directory name.
Is there a way round this other than URL rewriting?
If i set the Blog address to the wordpress directory all the RSS links go there which isn’t what i want. They need to link to http://example.com/discussions.php
Is there any edits that can be made to allow a page other than index to be the base.
Neonwired, I have the same setup as you have and my blog url is:
http://www.mysite.com without a trailing slash.
My WordPress url (the one above the blog url) is:
http://www.mysite.com/wordpress also without trailing slash.
