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 *   Forum: [Installing WordPress](https://wordpress.org/support/forum/installation/)
   
   In reply to: [Getting WP Installed In the Right Place](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/getting-wp-installed-in-the-right-place/)
 *  Thread Starter [dschaefer](https://wordpress.org/support/users/dschaefer/)
 * (@dschaefer)
 * [13 years, 3 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/getting-wp-installed-in-the-right-place/#post-3321580)
 * Thanks for the links, they look like what I need.
 * It also sounds like I’m a bit too concerned about where things ought to be. It’s
   working now and although I don’t like the production install in the ‘dev’ directory,
   I guess I can live with it.
 *   Forum: [Installing WordPress](https://wordpress.org/support/forum/installation/)
   
   In reply to: [Getting WP Installed In the Right Place](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/getting-wp-installed-in-the-right-place/)
 *  Thread Starter [dschaefer](https://wordpress.org/support/users/dschaefer/)
 * (@dschaefer)
 * [13 years, 3 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/getting-wp-installed-in-the-right-place/#post-3321517)
 * My live site is running just fine as is, I guess I wanted to clean it up so that
   the live site is running from the same directory that it’s published to. My assumption
   was that is the typical way it’s done and I want it to be right. It seems that
   this is a bit of a work around with WP in the dev folder even though it’s not
   the ‘development’ install.
 * I’m having a bit of a hard time finding my way around a few things like this 
   in the install and I want to clean them up as I go.
 * Am I wrong in my assumptions of how things are typically done?
 *   Forum: [Fixing WordPress](https://wordpress.org/support/forum/how-to-and-troubleshooting/)
   
   In reply to: [Upgrade Help](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/upgrade-help-10/)
 *  Thread Starter [dschaefer](https://wordpress.org/support/users/dschaefer/)
 * (@dschaefer)
 * [13 years, 5 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/upgrade-help-10/#post-3130139)
 * Thanks for the replies. I’ve got a lot of learning to do.
 * A test install sounds like what I need. Are there any good how-tos on this? I’ve
   searched and found lots of posts online about this, but most aren’t much very
   descriptive. I’m pretty new to this, I really need a basic step by step.
 * WP is generally installed in the directory it publishes to, correct? Is a good
   way to do this to install WP in the main directory (www.domain.com) and a test
   install in another directory (www.domain.com/test)? If so, how do you move changes
   over from test to production? Do you have to do all the work a second time? I’m
   assuming the two installs aren’t tied to a common database, right? That always
   got me in MT too, I ran a ‘test’ blog and a ‘production’ blog but never found
   an easy way to port changes from test to production.
 * BTW – on my site, WP is installed in a subfolder but publishes to the root. I’m
   thinking I ought to move WP to the same folder it publishes to and then install
   it again in a test subfolder.

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