Title: WP extracts to folder called wordpress?
Last modified: August 19, 2016

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# WP extracts to folder called wordpress?

 *  [fireflywp1](https://wordpress.org/support/users/fireflywp1/)
 * (@fireflywp1)
 * [15 years, 4 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/wp-extracts-to-folder-called-wordpress/)
 * I want WP to extract to my “blog” folder, and it does this but it puts itself
   inside another folder called wordpress WITHIN the blog folder. Can I just drag
   all the WP files and folders to the blog folder so that it is just inside /blog
   and not /blog/wordpress.
    I haven’t done any of the other configure edits yet.
   Just wanting to know if wordpress will allow me to do this. Another way of putting
   this is: If I extract the files on my own computer, and it does what I said above(
   ie creates the 2nd folder), can I drag them or just rename the wordpress folder
   to “blog” and then drag it so that it is a stand alone folder in my root directory?
   There doesn’t seem to be any way to avoid it creating the secondary folder for
   itself.

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 *  [@mercime](https://wordpress.org/support/users/mercime/)
 * (@mercime)
 * [15 years, 4 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/wp-extracts-to-folder-called-wordpress/#post-1820907)
 * Make sure that WordPress is not double-nested in another folder. You can unzip
   WP in your computer and move/upload WP files to your blog subdirectory [http://yoursite.com/blog/](http://yoursite.com/blog/)
 *  Thread Starter [fireflywp1](https://wordpress.org/support/users/fireflywp1/)
 * (@fireflywp1)
 * [15 years, 4 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/wp-extracts-to-folder-called-wordpress/#post-1820936)
 * This doesn’t really answer the exact question..please clarify for me..
 * if doing it so that it is NOT double nested means allowing it to create the “
   wordpress” folder on my computer as it seems to want to do….
    …and then upload
   it (the files and folders **within **the wordpress folder to the folder /blog
   on my root directory on-line,… but can I upload it WITHOUT uploading the folder
   it is in…ie so that it goes like blog/wp-admin and blog/wp-incudes, rather than
   blog/wordpress/wp-admin, etc.
 *  [Root](https://wordpress.org/support/users/root/)
 * (@root)
 * [15 years, 4 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/wp-extracts-to-folder-called-wordpress/#post-1820948)
 * this is common with zipped files…………..as they unzip they are in a foldeer……….
   u do not need the folder…u need the contents of the folder…….my first post in
   this forum 6 years and 6k support posts ago was on this very subject…………..if 
   u got a folder called blog upload the contents of folder wordpress in there………
 *  [@mercime](https://wordpress.org/support/users/mercime/)
 * (@mercime)
 * [15 years, 4 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/wp-extracts-to-folder-called-wordpress/#post-1820959)
 * By double-nested I mean after extracting it looks like this
    `wordpress/wordpress/
   FilesAndFolders`
 * Do not upload the first folder wordpress/ nor 2nd /wordpress/ folder
    You only
   need to upload FilesAndFolders i.e. wp-admin, wp-content, wp-includes folders
   along with individual WP files to [http://yoursite.com/blog/](http://yoursite.com/blog/)
   subdirectory
 *  Thread Starter [fireflywp1](https://wordpress.org/support/users/fireflywp1/)
 * (@fireflywp1)
 * [15 years, 4 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/wp-extracts-to-folder-called-wordpress/#post-1820979)
 * Thank you.
    I will be moving the index.php to the main root directory (following
   those set up instructions) as the main index file to which my domain name points…(
   I don’t see any .htaccess file to be moved so I assume I don’t need to move that
   one)…and I am just trying to avoid any reason why the program might not work 
   properly.
 *  [Root](https://wordpress.org/support/users/root/)
 * (@root)
 * [15 years, 4 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/wp-extracts-to-folder-called-wordpress/#post-1821117)
 * Yup. It goes right in the root directory of yr domain or a sub directory if u
   wish. But the folders it comes in are not needed.
 *  [@mercime](https://wordpress.org/support/users/mercime/)
 * (@mercime)
 * [15 years, 4 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/wp-extracts-to-folder-called-wordpress/#post-1821118)
 * > I don’t see any .htaccess file to be moved so I assume I don’t need to move
   > that one
 * Your .htaccess file will be created during the installation process.

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