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# kortech

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 *   Forum: [Fixing WordPress](https://wordpress.org/support/forum/how-to-and-troubleshooting/)
   
   In reply to: [WP in own directory gives error 500](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/wp-in-own-directory-gives-error-500/)
 *  Thread Starter [kortech](https://wordpress.org/support/users/kortech/)
 * (@kortech)
 * [14 years, 5 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/wp-in-own-directory-gives-error-500/#post-2425861)
 * Hah! Just figured it out. In step 6 of [Giving_WordPress_Its_Own_Directory](http://codex.wordpress.org/Giving_WordPress_Its_Own_Directory)
   under “Using a pre-existing subdirectory install”, rather than using
    require(‘./
   wordpress/wp-blog-header.php’); I had to use require(‘wordpress/wp-blog-header.
   php’);
 * Apparently the “./” doesn’t refer to my web root directory. I suspect this has
   something to do with the configuration of my root web on the server.
 *   Forum: [Fixing WordPress](https://wordpress.org/support/forum/how-to-and-troubleshooting/)
   
   In reply to: [WP in own directory gives error 500](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/wp-in-own-directory-gives-error-500/)
 *  Thread Starter [kortech](https://wordpress.org/support/users/kortech/)
 * (@kortech)
 * [14 years, 5 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/wp-in-own-directory-gives-error-500/#post-2425859)
 * Brad, I’ve checked the IIS log and there is no subcode, just 500. I don’t have
   access to the server’s event log.
 * As soon as I hit Save Changes in Settings / General after changing the Site URL,
   the web stops working and returns 500. But as I said before, if I redirect the
   Site URL to a subdirectory of the WP directory, it works fine.
 * I’m pretty sure the problem is related to the way my root web site is operating.
   As you know, everything in WP goes through index.php, but that page is not called
   explicitly; it is called as the default page at the site. I believe my root website
   is somehow not executing that default page, even though I’ve set up the server
   to execute it first. So this may have to do with page caching or some server 
   setting that I’m not aware of.
 *   Forum: [Fixing WordPress](https://wordpress.org/support/forum/how-to-and-troubleshooting/)
   
   In reply to: [WP in own directory gives error 500](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/wp-in-own-directory-gives-error-500/)
 *  Thread Starter [kortech](https://wordpress.org/support/users/kortech/)
 * (@kortech)
 * [14 years, 5 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/wp-in-own-directory-gives-error-500/#post-2425845)
 * Brad, thanks for the prompt response. Unfortunately, this is not my server and
   the server administrator is not being very cooperative. As I mentioned, the root
   web is a current non-WP production web, and I’m in the process of converting 
   it to this new WP web, which is currently installed in my wpdev subdirectory.
   This is the final step to turning it on at the root.
 * As a test, I created a /wpdev/test subdirectory, changed my site URL to /wpdev/
   test, and placed index.php there, with
 * require(‘./../wp-blog-header.php’);
 * That works! So this has something to do with the way my web root is operating.
   Any bright ideas?
 *   Forum: [Themes and Templates](https://wordpress.org/support/forum/themes-and-templates/)
   
   In reply to: [Is it legal to edit out the credits at the bottom of a theme?](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/is-it-legal-to-edit-out-the-credits-at-the-bottom-of-a-theme-1/)
 *  [kortech](https://wordpress.org/support/users/kortech/)
 * (@kortech)
 * [14 years, 6 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/is-it-legal-to-edit-out-the-credits-at-the-bottom-of-a-theme-1/#post-2088157)
 * Specifically to the Suffusion theme, how do I remove the “Suffusion theme by 
   Sayontan Sinh” credit? I’m using Suffusion theme version 3.9.2.

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