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  • Forum: Installing WordPress
    In reply to: Why does URL contain "/wordpress"?
    Thread Starter dunstanmorey

    (@dunstanmorey)

    14 years, 5 months ago

    You said that you have the folders what about wp- files are they in your root?

    Hi govpatel:

    Thanks for the reply. I still have folders despite my attempts (in concert with support at hosting company) to uninstall wordpress. I have no idea why the folders are still there, but was advised not to touch them, since they’re in the root folder.

    There are no files because I need to figure out where to put them before I FTP them over.

    DM

    Forum: Installing WordPress
    In reply to: Why does URL contain "/wordpress"?
    Thread Starter dunstanmorey

    (@dunstanmorey)

    14 years, 5 months ago

    Once all the files have been moved over to your root folder, you’ll need to update the site url and home to your domain points correctly.

    Hi Tim: Thanks for the reply. Can you explain what you mean by “update site URL?” My primary concern is losing my existing page rank in Google and messing up the many inbound links to my site. What I’m still trying to figure out is if it’s possible to have my new WP pages have the same URL as my old HTML pages.

    Many thanks!
    DM

    Forum: Installing WordPress
    In reply to: Why does URL contain "/wordpress"?
    Thread Starter dunstanmorey

    (@dunstanmorey)

    14 years, 5 months ago

    Hi govpatel:

    Thanks for the reply.

    Since I don’t know what I’m doing, I think I have a screwed-up directory. Here’s what happened:

    First, someone designed me a new site in wordpress; it’s hosted right now on the designer’s server.

    Next, I installed wordpress into my web hosting account.

    Then I Exported from the designer’s server onto my desktop at home; then I logged into my control panel at my web host and tried to Import that file. The content showed up, but the design that I paid for was lost.

    So I tried to uninstall wordpress from my web hosting account, so I could start over. I got an error message saying they couldn’t find my server.

    I contacted tech support at my web host to help. Looking at my file manager, we found:
    – a wordpress folder in the root folder, containing 1) wp-admin folder; 2) wp-content folder; 3) wp-includes folder (all inside the wordpress folder.
    – three other folders in the root folder, ALSO called 1) wp-admin folder; 2) wp-content folder; 3) wp-includes folder.
    The tech support guy uninstalled wordpress; but I still have 4 folders in my root folder: 1) wp-admin folder; 2) wp-content folder; 3) wp-includes folder, and 4) the original wordpress folder (but with nothing but a more or less empty wp-content folder). Now I’m worried I’ve completely screwed things up.

    Should I worry? What should I do now?

    Thanks!
    Dunstan Morey

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