lildude

Sorry folks. I didn’t opt for these options as it’s still messy and removes some of the functionality of WordPress and my templates. Instead, I did the following (using WP 1.5.2):

WARNING: THIS IS A QUICK & NASTY WORK-AROUND THAT DOES THE JOB

1. Install and setup WP so that the WordPress URI and the Blog URI point to the WP install directory – eg http://www.domain.com/wordpress/

2. Edit the wp-includes/classes.php file and comment out lines 1244, 1245, 1246 and 1248 thus leaving it looking as follows:


// if (strstr($query, $this->index)) {
// $rules .= 'RewriteRule ^' . $match . ' ' . $home_root . $query . " [QSA,L]n";
// } else {
$rules .= 'RewriteRule ^' . $match . ' ' . $site_root . $query . " [QSA,L]n";
// } }


3. Go to Option -> General
4. Set Blog Address to your base URI – eg http://www.domain.com
5. Click Update Options. This should now create your .htaccess in the base directory of your site, not in /wordpress/
6. Edit the new .htaccess file, and add the following BEFORE the
# BEGIN WordPress line:

RewriteRule ^$ /wordpress/ [QSA,L]

Thus making the beginning of your file look as follows:

RewriteRule ^$ /wordpress/ [QSA,L]
# BEGIN WordPress
<IfModule mod_rewrite.c>
RewriteEngine On
RewriteBase /
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} -f [OR]
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} -d


Note, you can change the /wordpress/ to where ever you chose to install WP.

7. Save the file.

You should find that all your RewriteRules point to /wordpress/index.php and it will stay this way when you make any updates in the future.

Just one word of warning... these changes will be lost when you update WP to a later release (cos you're over-writing the classes.php file), but it's a small price to pay for neat, tidy convenience.

I could have coded round this, but I really couldn't be arsed. Commenting out 3 lines is way simpler.