Title: Installation in sub folder – navigation issues
Last modified: August 20, 2016

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# Installation in sub folder – navigation issues

 *  Resolved [peterharper](https://wordpress.org/support/users/peterharper/)
 * (@peterharper)
 * [13 years, 12 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/installation-in-sub-folder-navigation-issues/)
 * I have a blog on myDomain.com on a WP GoDaddy (Ultimate) package. I’ll be pointing
   another domain to the same server and thought I could set up the site in advance
   in myDomain.com/subFolder to make a seamless switch. However, a clean install
   of WP went fine but all buttons navigate to the parent blog, with ‘Page not found’
   nested in the home frame.
 * Where can I reset the root for the sub domain, or will this be automatically 
   resolved when I update the DNS for the second domain to point to the myDomain.
   com/subfolder?
    Or how does that work? Thanks in advance! new territory for me,..
   I’m a sound engineer 😉
 * Peter

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 *  [brazley](https://wordpress.org/support/users/brazley/)
 * (@brazley)
 * [13 years, 12 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/installation-in-sub-folder-navigation-issues/#post-2827872)
 * peter
 * which buttons? are navigating to the blog. do you have a link to the site in 
   question.
 * if im understanding your problem correctly; heres two ways you could do it.
 * 1. create the new blog by making it a sub-domain like this: subfolder.yourdomain.
   com do this in hostgators add-on domain option,then load wordpress on it using
   fantastico.
 * or
 * 2. create folder as you mentioned. you can do it hostgator but i usually just
   create a folder using my ftp client under the domain name you want to use.ie..
   mydomain.com/blog then load wordpress in /blog folder.
 * once the new blog folder is setup you can use duplicator plugin to easily transfer/
   clone/copy everything to it.
 * courtney
    :end
 *  Thread Starter [peterharper](https://wordpress.org/support/users/peterharper/)
 * (@peterharper)
 * [13 years, 12 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/installation-in-sub-folder-navigation-issues/#post-2827876)
 * Thanks for the quick answer. The domain is [http://lcrecordings.com/](http://lcrecordings.com/)(
   3.3.2) and I’ve installed another WP instance (3.4) in [http://lcrecordings.com/enoch/](http://lcrecordings.com/enoch/)
 * Click on any button and it will open the page up in the parent frame. I’ve got
   a similar local set up using MAMP on Mac, and this works fine so was hopeful 
   it would be the same 😉
 * hostgator sounds very useful will give that a try, but would first like to make
   sure root is correctly defined. Wondering if I need to define the Path somewhere
   in wp-config.php or is there a string in the DB I need to tweak?
 * many thanks,
    peter

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 * Last reply from: [peterharper](https://wordpress.org/support/users/peterharper/)
 * Last activity: [13 years, 12 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/installation-in-sub-folder-navigation-issues/#post-2827876)
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