Title: Moving wordpress files
Last modified: August 18, 2016

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# Moving wordpress files

 *  Resolved [maerk](https://wordpress.org/support/users/maerk/)
 * (@maerk)
 * [20 years, 4 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/moving-wordpress-files/)
 * I want to move my wordpress installation from `/wordpress/` to `/`
 * I found this tutorial: [http://www.tamba2.org.uk/wordpress/site-url/](http://www.tamba2.org.uk/wordpress/site-url/)
   (
   podz, you are a genius) but I’m concerned that the rest of my site (which is 
   static) will be unavailable because wordpress won’t understand the URLs.
 * I’m also unsure as to what the difference is between ‘site_url’ and ‘home’.

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 *  [Michael Bishop](https://wordpress.org/support/users/miklb/)
 * (@miklb)
 * [20 years, 4 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/moving-wordpress-files/#post-334576)
 * I think your links got nixed, regardless, you are correct, moving WP into your
   root directory where static html files live will create some problems. You may
   want to look for the many options in converting your static html into Pages, 
   if the content is all the same. If not, you may want to rethink your move.
 *  Thread Starter [maerk](https://wordpress.org/support/users/maerk/)
 * (@maerk)
 * [20 years, 4 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/moving-wordpress-files/#post-334579)
 * I was giving the URLs relative to my domain: [http://beingmrkenny.co.uk/wordpress/](http://beingmrkenny.co.uk/wordpress/)(
   where it’s installed — interestingly, this doesn’t work!) and [http://beingmrkenny.co.uk/](http://beingmrkenny.co.uk/)(
   where it shows up).
 * I guess I’m just being finickity about it. The whole thing works fine, 2.0 fixed
   the incorrect `<link href="">` to the xmlrpc or whatever it’s called. I’ll probably
   leave it.
 * What is the difference between ‘site_url’ and ‘home’, by the way?
 *  [Michael Bishop](https://wordpress.org/support/users/miklb/)
 * (@miklb)
 * [20 years, 4 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/moving-wordpress-files/#post-334582)
 * I’m not sure where you are getting ‘home’ from. Blog address is what you want
   people to type in their browser to find you. Site URI is the physical directory
   where the installation lives. It sounds as if you are already taking advantage
   of that feature.
 *  [MichaelH](https://wordpress.org/support/users/michaelh/)
 * (@michaelh)
 * [20 years, 4 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/moving-wordpress-files/#post-334604)
 * Also, `siteurl` is your WordPress address (URI) and `home` is your Blog Address(
   URI) as described in [Administration](http://codex.wordpress.org/Administration_Panels)
   > [Options](http://codex.wordpress.org/Administration_Panels#General) > [General](http://codex.wordpress.org/General_Options_SubPanel).

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 * In: [Fixing WordPress](https://wordpress.org/support/forum/how-to-and-troubleshooting/)
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 * Last reply from: [MichaelH](https://wordpress.org/support/users/michaelh/)
 * Last activity: [20 years, 4 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/moving-wordpress-files/#post-334604)
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