move site from subdirectory to root

[clemens2284]

Hi,
I’ve installed wordpress with its entire content to the subdirectory /wordpress.
I’d like to move everything to root, so that it’s possible to access the site without /wordpress.

I’ve changed the index.php from the wordpress folder to

<?php
define(‘WP_USE_THEMES’, true);
require(‘./wordpress/wp-blog-header.php’);
?>

and copied it to the root folder.

Under wordpress settings I’ve changed the url to:
wordpress address (url):www.domain.com/wordpress
site address (url):www.domain.com

When I open the site now without /wordpress I get two error messages at the bottom of the page?

Thanks for your help.

[Kyle – SUPPORT]

Hi

That’s not the way I’d do it, you’d have to move the site to the root folder, then upload this file: https://interconnectit.com/products/search-and-replace-for-wordpress-databases/ and run the find and replace script to replace:

domain.com/wordpress

with

domain.com

– Kyle

[clemens2284]

I’ll give it a try thanks.

[Rui Guerreiro – SUPPORT]

Let us know the result. Thanks Kyle
-Rui

[clemens2284]

Yes I’ll try it later, I’ve changed everything back as it was. However, when I try to open the site now with /wordpress like before, it automatically switches to http://www.zoomaudio.at/?clients=wordpress?

When I try to open my start page it switches to ?clients=wordpress,
and when I set a complete new site as start page, it won’t load and again shows ?clients=wordpress?

Everything else works like before. I guess it wasn’t the best idea to change php files…

[Rui Guerreiro – SUPPORT]

Hi,

Probably because the changes in the index.php or the htaccess

You can use a plugin like this to help you migrate the site.

Duplicator – WordPress Migration Plugin

-Rui

[clemens2284]

Hi Rui,

duplicator looks easy to use, but I couldn’t export the archive because of some php issues of my host. (timeouts, open_basedir) then I tried to copy database and wordpress files manually to the root folder. I had some problems importing the sql file to the new database and link it to the new wp-config.php

I’ve finally changed the new wp-config.php to the old database and everything works now!

Thank you guys!

[Rui Guerreiro – SUPPORT]

no problem. Glad it’s sorted.

-Rui