Title: URL Re-write
Last modified: August 21, 2016

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# URL Re-write

 *  [mPoweredwebs](https://wordpress.org/support/users/mpoweredwebs/)
 * (@mpoweredwebs)
 * [12 years, 3 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/url-re-write/)
 * I have a current website sitting on a hosting account in the root folder and 
   i wanted to leave it running while I rebuilt the site on the wordpress platform.
 * So I installed wordpress in a folder on the root – wordpress so the new site 
   has a current URL of thebusinessbuilders.ca/wordpress
 * I did a repoint of thebusinessbuilders.ca to the new url, but the url wih /wordpress
   is what shows.
 * How can I re-write the URL so that thebusinessbuilders.ca only shows in the address
   bar instead of thebusinessbuilders.ca/wordpress?

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 *  [brockh2446](https://wordpress.org/support/users/brockh2446/)
 * (@brockh2446)
 * [12 years, 3 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/url-re-write/#post-4518606)
 * I would use .htaccess rewrite to edit the url. You can google how to do this,
   assuming you’re using apache and have access to these settings on your server
   a quick google of “Hide directory with apache” should give you some useful information.

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 * In: [Fixing WordPress](https://wordpress.org/support/forum/how-to-and-troubleshooting/)
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 * Last reply from: [brockh2446](https://wordpress.org/support/users/brockh2446/)
 * Last activity: [12 years, 3 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/url-re-write/#post-4518606)
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