Issue moving WP to root

  • atakajeff

    (@atakajeff)


    14 years, 5 months ago

    Unfortunately I didn’t read the tutorial on moving your WP to the root directory beforehand, so I must have done something wrong.

    I moved all WP content to the root directory, and changed the wordpress address and site url to domain.com.

    I now access my admin panel through domain.com/wp-admin. The urls while editing each page is displayed as domain.com/pagename. That much is right.

    However, when I click view page, or try to go to domain.com/pagename, I get a 404. Strangely, domain.com/wp/pagename still functions perfectly, even though I’ve relocated all of those folders.

    I’ve tried fooling around with permalinks etc. but to no avail. I’m new to wordpress, so I’m definitely fumbling here. Hopefully someone can save me. I did a search but couldn’t find anyone with my specific problem and could not access .htaccess (I suspect one doesn’t exist for me, even turned on view hidden files). I’m using yahoo small business for my hosting if that helps (which also does not support symlinks)

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  • Thread Starter atakajeff

    (@atakajeff)

    14 years, 5 months ago

    grr, can’t edit post
    I decided to reinstall wordpress to root, since my permalinks started breaking all over the place

    my site is functioning fine with permalinks set to default (so pages display as /?page_id=30, /?page_id=9 etc.)

    However, when I change the permalink to post name I get 404’d

    reaaaally need it to display as domain.com/pagename
    I’ve found a lot of documentation on this issue, but so far no workable solutions, apparently it had been solved?
    I’ll keep looking, in the mean time help would be appreciated 😉

    esmi

    (@esmi)

    14 years, 5 months ago

    Check with your hosts that mod_rewrite is running on your server.

    Thread Starter atakajeff

    (@atakajeff)

    14 years, 5 months ago

    I checked and mod_rewrite is not running, nor does yahoo support it
    (list of supported functions: http://help.yahoo.com/l/us/yahoo/smallbusiness/webhosting/php/php-33.html)

    also spoke with a rep, he said it sounds like a htaccess issue, which yahoo does not allow access to for security reasons

    anyone have any suggestions for a workaround?
    I was considering installing wordpress manually in the root, instead of one click install then moving it, but I’ll wait for a time when we’re expecting less traffc

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