Title: domain names
Last modified: August 18, 2016

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# domain names

 *  [yarflys](https://wordpress.org/support/users/yarflys/)
 * (@yarflys)
 * [19 years, 4 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/domain-names/)
 * I have my WordPress site hosted in a folder on my server. The root folder on 
   my server contains files for the domain name “citydeskdesign.com”. The WordPress
   site is in a folder called “wordpress_3”. The domain name for that site is milwaukees.
   com. I have the DNS information for milwaukees.com pointing to the directory “
   wordpress_3” on my server.
 * Everything on milwaukees.com is working fine with wordpress. The issue I’d like
   to sort out is that when you view an individual posting the URL up top switches
   to “citydeskdesign.com/wordpress_3/…”
 * Also feedburner displays the URL for the feed as citydeskdesign.com/wordpress_3/…
 * Like I said, everything works fine, but I’d really like the URL to be consistently
   displayed as milwaukees.com no matter where you are in the site.
 * Any suggestions are appreciated.
 * Thanks,
    Jeff

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 *  [ekusteve](https://wordpress.org/support/users/ekusteve/)
 * (@ekusteve)
 * [19 years, 4 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/domain-names/#post-511013)
 * Sounds to me like you need to install WordPress in your root directory…..in other
   words, move all of the files out of the wordpress_3 directory and into the root.
 * You will need to change the settings in your config.php file when you do this.
 * This will clutter the root of your website, so if you are using it for other 
   stuff as well, you may want to think about whether the gain is worth the clutter.
 * Steve
 *  Thread Starter [yarflys](https://wordpress.org/support/users/yarflys/)
 * (@yarflys)
 * [19 years, 4 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/domain-names/#post-511073)
 * There is already another site hosted in the root folder. I guess I could flip-
   flop them, but for a few reasons I’d prefer to find a different solution. Besides,
   I am not sure that would do the trick.
 * I read something about altering the htaccess file. That is something I know little
   about. Could that do the trick? If so, how do I go about doing it?
 * Any other solutions out there?
 * Thanks,
    Jeff

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 * In: [Fixing WordPress](https://wordpress.org/support/forum/how-to-and-troubleshooting/)
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 * Last activity: [19 years, 4 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/domain-names/#post-511073)
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