Title: wp-config inside wp-admin
Last modified: August 30, 2016

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# wp-config inside wp-admin

 *  [rod](https://wordpress.org/support/users/nomadarod/)
 * (@nomadarod)
 * [11 years ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/wp-config-inside-wp-admin/)
 * Hi!
    I have a wp-config.php inside the wp-admin folder. Is that suposed to be
   so? Because I have another one in the root folder, where the WP is installed.
 * I need to know if this is a mistake, maybe when I was moving between folders 
   in Filezilla, or not?

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 *  [Mark Ratledge](https://wordpress.org/support/users/songdogtech/)
 * (@songdogtech)
 * [11 years ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/wp-config-inside-wp-admin/#post-6225615)
 * No need for wp-config.php in wp-admin; you can delete it, as WordPress isn’t 
   reading it. But to be safe, download a copy of it in case you need the database
   info later.
 *  Thread Starter [rod](https://wordpress.org/support/users/nomadarod/)
 * (@nomadarod)
 * [11 years ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/wp-config-inside-wp-admin/#post-6225629)
 * Thank you, songdogtech! I notice, by the info inside the file, that it’s a wp-
   config.php from the time my site was in localhost (not online yet). I’m suspecting–
   since it’s not the first time it happens – that the file was moved while browsing
   locations in Filezilla.
 * Any idea how I can safeguard myself from being moving items around just by browsing
   in Filezilla? I turned off double clicks but find nothing that can stop dragging
   a file from a folder to the next.
 *  [Mark Ratledge](https://wordpress.org/support/users/songdogtech/)
 * (@songdogtech)
 * [11 years ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/wp-config-inside-wp-admin/#post-6225648)
 * > Any idea how I can safeguard myself from being moving items around just by 
   > browsing in Filezilla?
 * Don’t know about that; just have to be careful 🙂

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 * [wp-admin](https://wordpress.org/support/topic-tag/wp-admin/)
 * [wp-config.php](https://wordpress.org/support/topic-tag/wp-config-php/)

 * In: [Fixing WordPress](https://wordpress.org/support/forum/how-to-and-troubleshooting/)
 * 3 replies
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 * Last reply from: [Mark Ratledge](https://wordpress.org/support/users/songdogtech/)
 * Last activity: [11 years ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/wp-config-inside-wp-admin/#post-6225648)
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