Installing wordpress in a subdirectory for testing/upgrading purposes

  • jmaynar

    (@jmaynar)


    13 years, 12 months ago

    Hello all,

    I’ve finally convinced one of my clients to upgrade their wordpress site. We’re installing a new theme and upgrading to 3.4

    I’ve installed the newest version of wordpress in a subdirectory http://www.amadeabailey.com/staging/wordpress

    As you can see, a 404 is thrown every time I try to access the staging blog. I imagine I have an issue with my .htaccess file in the root directory. Here is the code:

    # BEGIN WordPress
<IfModule mod_rewrite.c>
RewriteEngine On
RewriteBase /
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-f
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-d
RewriteRule . /index.php [L]
</IfModule>

    Do I need to change something to allow me to configure the testing version of wordpress?

    Hope to hear back from someone soon. I’m somewhat of a noob and am trying to update the site w/out affecting the live version until everything is complete.

    Thanks in advance for the quick, helpful replies!

    Josh

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  • esmi

    (@esmi)

    13 years, 12 months ago

    Set the permalinks back to the default setting and delete that .htaccess file. It’s from your root install – not this subdir install.

    Thread Starter jmaynar

    (@jmaynar)

    13 years, 12 months ago

    Thanks for the quick reply,

    I did what you suggested and now a hard 404 is thrown when I try to access the install file.

    http://amadeabailey.com/staging/wordpress/wp-admin/install.php

    peterharper

    (@peterharper)

    13 years, 12 months ago

    I’m having the same issue and have also posted just a few threads earlier, ..http://ww.wp.xz.cn/support/topic/installation-in-sub-folder-navigation-issues?replies=3

    I suspect it’s something with 3.4 as I have previously had two instances of wp running locally on MAMP. I suspect that the path is stored in the DB, … not sure, not an expert but keen to find a solution. Will keep trying and post back.

    Peter

    esmi

    (@esmi)

    13 years, 12 months ago

    @peterharper: It is impolite and contrary to forum policy to interrupt another poster’s ongoing thread with a question of your own. Please post your own topic.

    @jmaynar: You seem to have installed WordPress now. Has your problem been resolved?

    peterharper

    (@peterharper)

    13 years, 12 months ago

    @esmi … What are you talking about? Perhaps if you were to read my post you would see that I *didn’t* ask a question but offered possible solutions as I *was* having the same problem! …

    And if you had read it properly you would have seen that I *did* post my own topic ( now resolved ) ?… How can trying to help be improper or impolite?

    @jmaynar. Apologies, I looked for a way to reply to esmi offline according to my understanding of forum protocol, but couldn’t find one 🙁

    What fixed this issue for me was to edit the .htaccess file placed in the subdirectory.

    Rewritebase /subdirectory/
    ….
    ….
    RewriteRule ./subdirectory/index.php ….

    Hth,
    Peter

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