chachiarcola

Hi Peter,
Thanks for the help, but I can’t do what you said.

I have my own wordpress website, with its own install/database set up in the root folder of my server, and a friend’s portfolio styled wordpress website installed in the subfolder with its own install/database. Sorry if I wasn’t clear.

I didn’t use actual urls, but my site uses the “mymaindomain” URL, with my friend’s site using the “hosted-site” URL. I have other WordPress installs set up the same way, inside a sub folder with their own install/database and they work fine. This one seems to be screwed up because I guess I used the sub folder in the WordPress address when I first set it up. Don’t ask me why, I am not sure myself why I did it.

I have tried setting the addresses in admin general settings for “hosted-site” so that both the WordPress address URL and SIte address URL both point to the “hosted-site” URL, but after I save the settings, it reverts back to the previous pair of URLs

So to be clear, this is how it is set up now:

WordPress address (URL): http://mymaindomain.com/hosted-site
Site address (URL): http://hosted-site.com

What I want:

WordPress address (URL): http://hosted-site.com
Site address (URL): http://hosted-site.com

I have other installs that work fine set up like this, and they are in subfolders at the same hierarchy level to the root of my hosting, with their own databases:

WordPress address (URL): http://other-hosted-site.com
Site address (URL): http://other-hosted-site.com

But when I try to change the WordPress URL in admin General settings, it reverts back to the way it was after I save.

I am worried that the only way to change it would be to edit the mysql database, which I have never done, and need help doing so. I should also mention that there are something like 300 posts on the “hosted-site” install, and they have uploaded/embedded images with their links pointed to “mymaindomain.com/hosted-site” A big scrambled mess… The posts show up if you know their permalink URL, but navigating to them is broken when using the menus.

I would like to be able to fix the WordPress address URL problem, and not break all those links in doing so. Is there some sort of how-to somewhere, or a plugin of some sort perhaps?

Thanks again.