Title: website doesn't load
Last modified: August 22, 2016

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# website doesn't load

 *  [jokaras](https://wordpress.org/support/users/jokaras/)
 * (@jokaras)
 * [11 years, 9 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/website-doesnt-load-2/)
 * My website doesn’t load unless I write **/wordpress** after the site name

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 *  [Senff – a11n](https://wordpress.org/support/users/senff/)
 * (@senff)
 * [11 years, 9 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/website-doesnt-load-2/#post-5227271)
 * To have your site load in the root of your domain name, when it’s installed in
   a /wordpress subdirectory, follow these instructions: [http://codex.wordpress.org/Giving_WordPress_Its_Own_Directory#Using_a_pre-existing_subdirectory_install](http://codex.wordpress.org/Giving_WordPress_Its_Own_Directory#Using_a_pre-existing_subdirectory_install)
 *  Thread Starter [jokaras](https://wordpress.org/support/users/jokaras/)
 * (@jokaras)
 * [11 years, 9 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/website-doesnt-load-2/#post-5227294)
 * Moving a Root install to its own directory? Is this what I have to do? Cause 
   I think this is the opposite from what I want 🙂
 * Sorry, a beginner..
 *  [Senff – a11n](https://wordpress.org/support/users/senff/)
 * (@senff)
 * [11 years, 9 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/website-doesnt-load-2/#post-5227297)
 * No, make sure you look under the header “**Using a pre-existing subdirectory 
   install**“.
 * Right now, your site is at [http://www.something.com/wordpress](http://www.something.com/wordpress),
   and you’d like it to show up at [http://www.something.com](http://www.something.com)(
   without moving all the files and such), correct? If that’s the case, those instructions
   are what you need to follow.
 *  Thread Starter [jokaras](https://wordpress.org/support/users/jokaras/)
 * (@jokaras)
 * [11 years, 9 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/website-doesnt-load-2/#post-5227313)
 * ok, now i have done something really bad. I deleted /wordpress from both site
   and wordpress URL and now I cant login to the dashboard..
    Any solution for that?
 *  [Senff – a11n](https://wordpress.org/support/users/senff/)
 * (@senff)
 * [11 years, 9 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/website-doesnt-load-2/#post-5227335)
 * I’m not sure how far you were in the process (if you copied **index.php** and**.
   htaccess** already) so let’s start over.
 * First, add these two lines to your **wp-config.php** file:
 *     ```
       update_option('siteurl','http://www.soomething.com/wordpress');
       update_option('home','http://www.soomething.com/wordpress');
       ```
   
 * Of course, replace the domain name with your own domain name.
 * That should get the site up and running again at [http://www.soomething.com/wordpress](http://www.soomething.com/wordpress)—
   make sure you then remove those two lines from **wp-config.php** again.
 * Now you can re-start that whole process of giving the site its own URL.

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