Installing something else on sub directory

  • Resolved Tiago

    (@iam3ple)


    3 years, 7 months ago

    Hi,

    Maybe this has been asked before, so I’m sorry if I’m bringing this up again. I just can’t find the answer for this.

    So I have my website, let’s say http://www.mywebsite.com
    Now if I go to my cPanel and I add something to a folder like http://www.mywebsite.com/photos/img.jpg, when I try to access that URL it will show me an error.

    Right now I want something a little bit more complex than just a folder with photos. I want to install phpBB on a folder so http://www.mywebsite.com/forum

    Is this possible? Is there a plugin or hack to allow a folder to act like a separate directory, independent from WordPress?

    I’m not a developer myself, so any complex replies will be hard for me to understand. I have some basic knowledge of HTML, CSS, I can create a database to install WP and all that, but just wanted to let anyone know that I’m not an expert. If you can simplify it so I can understand it, that would be awesome! 🙂 If not, try your best to clarify the way you can and I will try my best to understand it and do some extra research.

    Really appreciate the time and help!

    • This topic was modified 3 years, 7 months ago by Jan Dembowski. Reason: Moved to Fixing WordPress, this is not an Everything else WordPress topic
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  • George Appiah

    (@gappiah)

    3 years, 7 months ago

    http://www.mywebsite.com/photos/img.jpg, when I try to access that URL it will show me an error.

    What specific error?

    And can you give the ACTUAL URLs so we can take a look?

    Right now I want something a little bit more complex than just a folder with photos. I want to install phpBB on a folder so http://www.mywebsite.com/forum

    Is this possible? Is there a plugin or hack to allow a folder to act like a separate directory, independent from WordPress?

    It should be possible, and you don’t need any plugin or tool, and you don’t need to do anything specific to allow this: it should work out of the box.

    That’s because if a file or path exists on the file system, it takes priority, and it’s directly processed by the web server. WordPress doesn’t even play any role at all.

    Again, what specific error are you seeing?

    And can you provide the URL that’s giving you the error so we can take a look?

    Standing by.

    Thread Starter Tiago

    (@iam3ple)

    3 years, 7 months ago

    Hi @gappiah

    Thank you for the quick reply.
    I’m sorry, but either something must have changed or I was doing something else in the past, but now that I tested it again, it actually shows me the files… weird.

    I truly remember adding folders and images to older installations and I would get the 404 error so all this time I thought that any extra folder/files added to a directory with WordPress installed, wouldn’t show up. I guess I was wrong…

    At least it seems that I can now install phpBB inside a /forum directory 🙂

    I appreciate your time and thank you for pushing me to testing it again!

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