Title: WordPress address..Rewrite rules help please ? Last modified: August 18, 2016 --- # WordPress address..Rewrite rules help please ? * [mariam](https://wordpress.org/support/users/mariam/) * (@mariam) * [21 years, 2 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/wordpress-addressrewrite-rules-help-please/) * Hello again. I’ve finally gotten wordpress installed, with the help of this forum. However, now I am wondering how to change the blog address. I already read the questions on the forums and [http://wordpress.org/docs/installation/different-address/](http://wordpress.org/docs/installation/different-address/)— but I couldn’t get it to work. * I installed wordpress here: [http://cgi.distant-voices.com/wordpress/](http://cgi.distant-voices.com/wordpress/) * I want to have it located on this address: [http://distant-voices.com/mariam](http://distant-voices.com/mariam) but I am not sure how to get rid of the “cgi” part. * I’m not sure if I’m being clear enough or if I missed something already explained? Thank you for your help. Viewing 10 replies - 1 through 10 (of 10 total) * [fuzzy_logic](https://wordpress.org/support/users/fuzzy_logic/) * (@fuzzy_logic) * [21 years, 2 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/wordpress-addressrewrite-rules-help-please/#post-188789) * Since your blog has no posts yet, why don’t you do a fresh install and delete the old one. To have WP on the address you want, you should put WP in `/public_html/ mariam/` * Thread Starter [mariam](https://wordpress.org/support/users/mariam/) * (@mariam) * [21 years, 1 month ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/wordpress-addressrewrite-rules-help-please/#post-189404) * Thank you for your response, but I am not sure how to achieve this. How do you“ put wordpress in /public_html/mariam” ? * I emailed my webhosting provider with this same question, and their response was: * “One possible idea would be to put the wordpress output in a iframe on a web page in the directory where you desire it to be. Only the cgi server can run such scripts so the actual wordpress script must be on the cgi server. If you want the entire web page for the wordpress page to seem as if it is coming from that site or directory you can always place it in a single frame on a web page in that directory.” * Would this be the best (only) way to do this? Sorry for all the questions! * [Mark (podz)](https://wordpress.org/support/users/podz/) * (@podz) * [21 years, 1 month ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/wordpress-addressrewrite-rules-help-please/#post-189405) * iframes are a “bad thing” cgi server ? Rubbish (probably) Your host, well …… hmmm….. * Do you have a cpanel ? Do you use an ftp client ? In your webspace, if you wanted to create a page that just said “Hi, this is Miriam’s site”, where would you put that ? Essentially that’s where you put all the wordpress files. You would make a directory (wordpress), upload everything in there and go from there. * Thread Starter [mariam](https://wordpress.org/support/users/mariam/) * (@mariam) * [21 years, 1 month ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/wordpress-addressrewrite-rules-help-please/#post-189416) * “Active Web Hosting does not use cPanel as we have our own hosting control system which is accessible from the Account Administration Page.” I use SmartFTP. * When I started installing wordpress, I made the wp folder in [http://distant-voices.com/mariam](http://distant-voices.com/mariam) but it just wasn’t working. Then I took a look at my host’s faq and it said wordpress must be installed in the cgi server. * Perhaps I should find a new host, haha. * [Root](https://wordpress.org/support/users/root/) * (@root) * [21 years, 1 month ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/wordpress-addressrewrite-rules-help-please/#post-189417) * Your hosts do not know what they are talking about. I think they are muddling WP with MT. WP wont run in the cgi bin anyway to my knowledge.Beside which php is not a cgi. * [Mark (podz)](https://wordpress.org/support/users/podz/) * (@podz) * [21 years, 1 month ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/wordpress-addressrewrite-rules-help-please/#post-189418) * Mariam – what exactly do you mean by “not working” ? * Thread Starter [mariam](https://wordpress.org/support/users/mariam/) * (@mariam) * [21 years, 1 month ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/wordpress-addressrewrite-rules-help-please/#post-189419) * Root – I didn’t put WP in the cgi-bin; I put it in the cgi server. (I was having this problem earlier: [http://wordpress.org/support/topic.php?id=30374](http://wordpress.org/support/topic.php?id=30374)) * podz – When I upload all the files, and try to run the installation file, this comes up: [http://www.distant-voices.com/wordpress/wp-admin/install.php](http://www.distant-voices.com/wordpress/wp-admin/install.php) * But when I tried this again in the cgi server, it worked: [http://cgi.distant-voices.com/wordpress/](http://cgi.distant-voices.com/wordpress/) * [Mark (podz)](https://wordpress.org/support/users/podz/) * (@podz) * [21 years, 1 month ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/wordpress-addressrewrite-rules-help-please/#post-189420) * Looks like your host is taking an odd – but acceptable – path to running WP. * So ….. back to what you wanted ….? * Thread Starter [mariam](https://wordpress.org/support/users/mariam/) * (@mariam) * [21 years, 1 month ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/wordpress-addressrewrite-rules-help-please/#post-189421) * My original question was how do I (or can I) have my blog address be [http://distant-voices.com/mariam](http://distant-voices.com/mariam) when my wordpress address is [http://cgi.distant-voices.com/wordpress/](http://cgi.distant-voices.com/wordpress/) * [Mark (podz)](https://wordpress.org/support/users/podz/) * (@podz) * [21 years, 1 month ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/wordpress-addressrewrite-rules-help-please/#post-189422) * The last bit is easy: Login Options > See the two url’s ? Change the ‘wordpress’ to ‘mariam’ THEN Use cpanel or ftp to rename the wordpress directory to mariam * The first bit I’m not sure about … rewrite rules maybe ? (I’ll edit the thread title to include this) Viewing 10 replies - 1 through 10 (of 10 total) The topic ‘WordPress address..Rewrite rules help please ?’ is closed to new replies. * In: [Installing WordPress](https://wordpress.org/support/forum/installation/) * 10 replies * 4 participants * Last reply from: [Mark (podz)](https://wordpress.org/support/users/podz/) * Last activity: [21 years, 1 month ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/wordpress-addressrewrite-rules-help-please/#post-189422) * Status: not resolved ## Topics ### Topics with no replies ### Non-support topics ### Resolved topics ### Unresolved topics ### All topics