Why is WordPress installing into a /public/ folder?

  • Resolved idealmin

    (@idealmin)


    10 years, 6 months ago

    I am trying to install WP via my Cpanel using Fantisco. Usually everything goes swimmingly but today it keeps installing to a dir called “public”.

    For the field of where to install WP I left blank so it would install to the root as it usually does. But for some reason, it keeps installing to a dir it creates called /public_html/mysite/public

    Why is this?

    Eg; I’ve installed WordPress to my site viewable here http://zuma-game.biz

    But its also viewable here http://zuma-game.biz/public/

    What is going on here? I just want it installed to the root so I left the field blank which dir to install it on and it usually does just install it at the root but for some reason it keeps installing in this /public/ dir it keeps creating.

    Is it some glitch or error that its installed WP to this “public” folder or this is some new WP thing?

    Are these not duplicate content?
    http://zuma-game.biz
    http://zuma-game.biz/public/
    http://zuma-game.biz/public/ doesn’t even divert to http://zuma-game.biz/

    Could someone kindly enlighten me to whats going on?

    I notice the WP dir doesn’t have an htaccess file as well.

    Strange.

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  • leejosepho

    (@leejosepho)

    10 years, 6 months ago

    http://zuma-game.biz/public/ returns “404 – Sorry, Can’t find that Game. But maybe you like one of these games:” and then displays a list of “Random Games”…but unless you actually have duplicate installations in “root” and in the /public/ directory, I would guess everything is actually fine and that is just how your server is configured to set things up. But if you are concerned about someone trying to use http://zuma-game.biz/public/ and not seeing things as they should be, you might add something to htaccess in “root” to be sure all traffic goes only to http://zuma-game.biz/.

    Thread Starter idealmin

    (@idealmin)

    10 years, 6 months ago

    Nevermind. My host fixed it before your reply.
    Thanks anyway.

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